Archive | Portside

May 30, 2020

It’s Time to Democratize the Crisis: Join A Global Community of Countries Mobilizing to Do Just That

Jonathan Michael Feldman

This strategy of economic and social reconstruction necessarily involves not only equitable treatments of gender exclusion and reproduction, but social control or democratic governance for innovation, manufacturing, and the core “commanding heights”

May 30, 2020

African Liberation Day: The Enduring Struggle against Colonialism and Capitalism

People's Dispatch

This Pan-Africanism is, at its core, a people’s movement for the liberation of humanity from the exploitation of capitalism and imperialism.

May 30, 2020

Minneapolis Bus Drivers Refuse to Transport George Floyd Protesters to Jail

Lauren Kaori Gurley VICE

Organized labor throughout the city is banding together in solidarity against police violence in the aftermath of Floyd’s death.

May 30, 2020

Policing in the US is Not About Enforcing Law. It’s About Enforcing White Supremacy

Paul Butler The Guardian

Police treatment of two CNN reporters at a George Floyd protest shows the US has opposite systems of justice – one for white people, one for people of color

May 29, 2020

At the Mall, There’s a Machine That Tells You If You Are Racist

Karen Skolfield Split this Rock

Racist: takes a machine to know one? Poet Karen Skolfield parodies the obsession of skin color.

May 29, 2020

Philippine Call Center Workers Are in Danger. It’s Our Problem, Too.

Michael Galant In These Times

In the U.S., Covid-19 has brought renewed focus to the way that working-class lives are treated as expendable. But far less attention has been paid to the global dimensions of the crisis.

How Coronavirus Spreads Outdoors vs. Indoors

May 29, 2020

Can a runner give you Covid-19?

The Legal Marijuana Industry Is Rigged | Hasan Minhaj

May 29, 2020

As rich, white business owners monopolize newly-available marijuana licenses, states continue to arrest people of color for cannabis crimes, even after it’s legal. This leads Hasan to ask: if cannabis can’t be legalized fairly, should it be legalized at all?

Sarah Cooper Trump Impersonation | Compilation

May 29, 2020

Sarah Cooper (comedian) takes parody and lip-sync to the next level with her imitation/impersonation of Donald Trump.

Da 5 Bloods | Spike Lee Movie

May 29, 2020

From Academy Award® Winner Spike Lee comes a New Joint: the story of four African-American Vets who return to Vietnam, confronted by the lasting ravages of The Immorality of The Vietnam War.