It's easy to say we're going to Mars in the next few years. The reality is a lot harder. So why the false promises? What are Musk's real goals for NASA?
Stacy Davis Gates, Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez
Democracy Now!
In a major labor victory, the Chicago Teachers Union reached a tentative agreement with Chicago Public Schools Monday night that reaffirms sanctuary school protections, protects the ability to teach Black history, and gives veteran teachers a raise.
The memory of the Holocaust has, perversely, been enlisted to justify both the eradication of Gaza and the extraordinary silence with which that violence has been met.
Last spring, university administrators facilitated the mass arrest of over 3,000 students on more than sixty campuses—an extraordinary repressive response to one of the largest student protest movements in U.S. history.
“I don’t play for Boston. I play for the Celtics,” Bill Russell famously said, a sentiment that succinctly summed up the star player’s frustrations with the racism in his adopted city, where he had an unbelievably successful run in the ’50s and ’60s
Too many unions have responded to Donald Trump’s historic attacks on federal workers with little more than words. To beat back his anti-union assault, organized labor needs to break with decades of timidity.
No other practice, no other societal force is more favorable to the rise of authoritarianism and the rule of tyrants than pernicious war. Wage war long and it’s likely you can kiss your democracy, your rights, and just maybe your ass goodbye.
Zahra Moloo interviews Johan Gimonprez
Africa is a Country
The director of the Oscar-nominated film 'Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat' reflects on imperial violence, corporate warfare, and how cinema can disrupt the official record—and help us remember differently.
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