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December 2, 2019

It’s Our Choice: Medicare for All, or Endless War?

Lindsay Koshgarian OtherWords

We could easily fund health care for all by ending military boondoggles and fruitless wars. Here’s how.

December 2, 2019

Teachers and Public Workers in Argentina: Four Months of Strikes and Pickets

Julia Soul and Leandro Rodríguez Labor Notes

Public sector worker in Argentina fight for better conditions.

December 2, 2019

Push to Mine Minerals for “National Security” Is Creating New Market for Coal

Laura Peterson DeSmogBlog

...the Trump administration has been seeking to expand mining on public lands and further loosen environmental rules under the banner of weaning the United States off importing minerals deemed “critical” to national security.

December 2, 2019

Food Waste Is a Huge Environmental Problem. Here Are 5 Ways to Reduce Yours

Jamie Ducharme Time.com

Plan your grocery list, avoiding impulse buying or stocking up so much that you can’t use the food by the time it’s going to go bad.

Food waste is a global problem, but the U.S. is a major offender, wasting up to 40% of its food supply each year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

December 2, 2019

Will ICE Pull an End Run Around a New California Law?

Robin Urevich Capital & Main

Five days after a bill ending private prisons in the state was signed into law, the Trump administration found a way to get around it.

December 2, 2019

Giving Tuesday - Asking for Your Help Because We're in This Together!

Portside

The times are testing whether democracy and the rule of law, which are under the most ferocious, and sustained assault, will survive. We ask readers for their support once a year. If you like what we do, this is the time to support Portside.

December 1, 2019

AFGE’s “Me Too” Moment: When Top Leaders Misbehave, Union Members Pay The Price

Steve Early Portside

A sexual harassment scandal at AFGE headquarters is making the union’s resistance to Trump more difficult.

December 1, 2019

Our History Is the Future: Lakota Historian Nick Estes on Thanksgiving & Indigenous Resistance

Nick Estes / Amy Goodman Democracy Now!

Lakota historian Nick Estes talks about Thanksgiving and his book “Our History Is the Future.” He is a co-founder of the indigenous resistance group The Red Nation and a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe.

December 1, 2019

HBO’s Watchmen Changed Comic Canon Without Changing Anything: The ‘True’ Origin Story of Hooded Justice

Susana Polo Polygon

“This Extraordinary Being” reveals that the show's America’s first costumed crime fighter was William Reeves, the childhood survivor of the destruction of Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Black Wall Street, and a queer black man.

December 1, 2019

Macron Facing the "December 5th Wall"

Daniel Cirera Portside

Mobilization and strike against pension reform are expected to be massive