Archive | Portside

April 6, 2019

UIC Graduate Workers End Strike After 2 Weeks on Picket Line

Nader Issa Chicago Sun-Times

The three-year tentative contract agreement ensures pay hikes, cheaper health care and other financial gains for the workers represented by the UIC Graduate Employees Organization.

April 6, 2019

How Class Should Be Central

Eric Blanc, Jeremy Gong Jacobin

A strategic focus on uniting the working class doesn’t mean marginalizing the struggle against racism and sexism.

April 6, 2019

Berlin's Rental Revolution: Activists Push for Properties to be Nationalised

Philip Oltermann The Guardian

Support is growing for a referendum on whether to ban large landlords from the German capital and turn their property into social housing stock.

April 5, 2019

Talk in the Town Barbershop

Joseph Zaccardi Poetry of Joseph Zaccardi

Poet Joseph Zaccardi, Laureate of Marin County, explores the local chit-chat, reminding us it’s also about what folks don’t want to say or hear.

April 5, 2019

Cities and States Are Modeling What a Green New Deal Could Look Like

E.A. Crunden ThinkProgress

Smaller-scale efforts show local governments are prepared to act on climate change

April 5, 2019

Warren Backs Killing Filibuster to Push Through Progressive Reforms

Julia Conley Common Dreams

"We can't sit around for 100 years while the rich and powerful get richer and more powerful and everyone else falls further and further behind."

Attorney General Barr Is Caught in a Double Mueller Bind

April 5, 2019

New reporting reveals the first public splintering of the Justice Department and Mueller’s team, with sources telling NBC News and other outlets that members of Mueller’s staff disagree with Trump Attorney General Bill Barr’s public characterizations of the Russia probe.

Faces Places | Movie

April 5, 2019

Agnès Varda's recent academy award nominated film Faces Places, starring Jean-Luc Godard, JR, and Laurent Levesque. For an obituary of the influential New Wave filmaker, who died last week, see here. Her 1968 short on Huey Newton and the Black Panthers can be viewed here.

You Won’t Believe What Obama Says in This Video!

April 5, 2019

"We're entering an era in which our enemies can make anyone say anything at any point in time." More on the promise and risks of AI.

Behind the Doodle: Celebrating Johann Sebastian Bach

April 5, 2019

Google celebrated the renowned German composer and musician Johann Sebastian Bach with their first ever AI-powered Doodle. The Doodle is an interactive experience that encourages players to compose a two measure melody of their choice. The Doodle then uses machine learning to harmonize the custom melody into Bach’s signature music style. More on the promise and risks of AI.