Archive | Portside

March 3, 2018

Arctic Seed Vault Turning 10

Thin Lei Win Thomson Reuters Foundation

"It's fair to say that agriculture has never, ever faced bigger challenges than today"

March 2, 2018

Hypocrites: Innocents Now Rule!!

Francine Tyler

Inspired by student outrage at the link between politicians and the National Rifle Association, the poet find hope in the no-longer-so-innocent next generation.

Pete Seeger | Waist Deep In The Big Muddy

March 2, 2018

50 years ago this week, Pete Seeger returned to the national stage, singing Waist Deep in the Big Muddy on The Smothers Brothers Show - a challenge to the Vietnam War that CBS promptly censored. (Full story here.)

March 2, 2018

Recalling Pete Seeger’s Controversial Performance on the Smothers Brothers Show 50 Years Ago

Peter Dreier The American Prospect

Pete Seeger with guitar

Seeger had been blacklisted as a communist and this gutsy defiance of a corporate media giant marked his return to the mainstream cultural scene.

March 2, 2018

The Soul-Crushing Legacy of Billy Graham

Bob Moser Rolling Stone

"I would torment myself for another 20 years trying to 'reform,' never quite able to shake the voice of Billy Graham promising me eternal damnation"

The Oligarch, the Escort and the Bureaucrat

March 2, 2018

Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny alleges a new link between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign. (With closed caption translation.)

March 2, 2018

Russia Is Trying to Bury This Video—And Might Shut Down YouTube to Do It

Hannah Levintova Mother Jones

An investigation into a deputy prime minister, escorts, and a yacht sends regulators scrambling.

March 2, 2018

How New York City Won Divestment from Fossil Fuels

Nancy Romer Portside

This campaign was years in the making, but Donald Trump's election and the withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord spurred the local activism that led to this important victory.

Civil Rights Leader on Student-Led Movements of 1960s and Today

March 2, 2018

As a student-led movement for gun control sweeps the country, we look back with a leader in the student movement that desegregated the University of Georgia in 1961.

John Oliver | Italian Elections

March 2, 2018

Italy is in the throes of a turbulent race to elect a new prime minister. John Oliver discusses the colorful contenders and introduces an equally ridiculous candidate.