Cities and States Leading Fight Against Big Money

Benjamin T. Brickner Brennan Center for Justice
Maine's Clean Elections program and Seattle's Honest Elections Seattle swept to notable victories on Tuesday, providing ways that candidates can run for office without relying on big money from special interests. These efforts are a reminder that many of the most important initiatives to fix our broken campaign finance system are happening on the state and local level.

Male/Female Brain Differences? Big Data Says Not So Much

Science Daily
A research study has debunked the widely-held belief that the hippocampus, a crucial part of the brain that consolidates new memories and helps connect emotions to the senses, is larger in females than in males.

Matt Taibbi: The Case for Bernie Sanders

Matt Taibbi Rolling Stone
His critics say he’s not realistic – but they have it backwards. The only reason this attention-averse, sometimes socially uncomfortable person is subjecting himself to this asinine process is because he genuinely believes the system is not beyond repair.

Sanders’ Strength? Millennials Back Socialism

Socialist? Populist? Progressive? Joseph Schwartz and Gar Alperovitz discuss Senator Bernie Sanders’ plans for extending democracy to the economic sphere and attacking inequalities in wealth and income.

Movie: This Changes Everything

Directed by journalist and filmmaker Avi Lewis (The Take) and produced in conjunction with Naomi Klein's bestselling book of the same name, this urgent dispatch on climate change contends that the greatest crisis we have ever faced also offers us the opportunity to address and correct the inhumane systems that have created it.

How the Keystone Fight Was Won

President Obama's rejection of the Keystone pipeline is the culmination of years of organizing and mobilization. Time to take a moment to celebrate a victory and draw lessons about how victories are won. 

Friday Nite Videos -- November 6, 2015

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The Ferguson Effect: It's Hard Out There for a Cop. How the Keystone Fight Was Won. Movie: This Changes Everything. The Mesa Verde Mystery. Sanders’ Strength? Millennials Back Socialism.

Stop Policing the World

Center for the Study of Political Graphics Center for the Study of Political Graphics
Some of the striking students at UC Berkeley silkscreened hundreds of protest posters onto used computer paper, including this CSPG Poster of the Week. The silkscreen graphic from 1970 Berkeley, CA was modeled after a poster made during the Paris '68 student/worker strike.

"Captive Genders": CeCe McDonald, Chelsea Manning and Others Map Road to Trans Liberation

Gabriel Arkles Truthout
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex (available to order with a donation to Truthout) brings together trans, queer and gender nonconforming views on police and prisons. Its pages brim with anger, grief, hope, humor and daring, taking on everything from bathhouse raids to capitalism, from prison rape to sex offender registries.