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Diane Nash -- Bio of a Civil Rights Activist

February 6, 2015

This short biography of Diane Nash features contemporary footage of Nash and her comrades in the Freedom Rides, in boycotts, sit-ins, marches and demonstrations, challenging segregation and facing down official and unofficial violence and hatred. Angela Bassett narrates.

Documentary -- The Hand That Feeds

February 6, 2015

Fast food, immigration, how justice is forged. A dramatic true story of restaurant workers in New York, many of them undocumented, struggling to organize. It's gotten great reviews; you can help get audiences.

Robert Reich: The Worst Trade Deal You've Never Heard Of

February 6, 2015

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is the largest--and worst--trade deal you've never heard of and Republicans in Congress want to work with the Obama administration to "fast track" its passage.

Movie -- The Black Panther Party: Vanguard of the Revolution

February 6, 2015

"The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution" Trailer Exclusive from Tambay A Obenson on Vimeo.

From master documentarian Stanley Nelson, a treasure of rare archival footage with the voices of the people who were there: police, FBI informants, journalists, white supporters and detractors, Black Panthers loyal to the party and those who left it.

Proud to Be

February 6, 2015

The Super Bowl is proud of its commercials, but here is a commercial about pride that you didn't see. Watch the #BigGame commercial the NFL would never air. Get involved by contacting the Washington Professional Football Team, the NFL and the Washington Post.

February 6, 2015

The Fiery Cage and the Lynching Tree, Brutality’s Never Far Away

Bill Moyers Bill Moyers and Company

I couldn't sleep the night we heard the news of the Jordanian pilot’s horrendous end, burned alive in an iron cage. ISIS be damned! I thought. But then I was haunted by the story of our own barbarians, of decades of lynchings. By insiders. Our neighbors, friends, and kin.

February 6, 2015

Confessions of an Erratic Marxist in the Midst of a Repugnant European Crisis

Yanis Varoufakis Yanis Varoufakis

Yanis Varoufakis is currently the Greek Minister of Finance. In this essay, posted to his website one year ago, he explains why he believes that radicals must work to stabilize the Eurozone on a more equitable basis so as to mimimize human suffering and to provide the time and space to develop a humanist alternative to Corporate Europe. He also describes the influence of Karl Marx on his views and asserts the necessity to embrace -- critically -- Marx's insights.

February 6, 2015

LBJ Doesn’t Deserve the Credit for Selma

Diane Nash The New Journal and Guide

My husband James Bevel and I conceptualized and wrote the plan that became the Selma Right to Vote movement. We believed that if Negroes in Alabama could vote, they could better protect their children from things like the Alabama church bombing.

February 6, 2015

Stiglitz: A Fair Solution to the Greek Debt

Joseph Stiglitz Project Syndicate

What is needed is not structural reform within Greece and Spain so much as structural reform of the Eurozone and a fundamental rethinking of the policy frameworks that have resulted in the monetary union’s spectacularly bad performance. Failure to restructure Greece's debt would be a failure of democracy and morality.

February 6, 2015

Friday Nite Videos -- February 6, 2015

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The Super Bowl commercial you didn't see. The Black Panther Party: Vanguard of the Revolution. The worst trade deal you never heard of. A true story of fast food, immigration and justice. Diane Nash: A Bio.