Jim Crow Returns
Al Jazeera
Millions of minority voters are threatened by an electoral purge
What Would Happen Under a Republican Senate?
Robert Reich explains how a Republican-controlled Senate would double down on its war on working families -- and what we can do about it.
Lewis Black Says F#%! Voter Suppression
At a photo shoot with the ACLU’s Voting Rights Project Director Dale Ho, ACLU voting rights ambassador Lewis Black gets so f#%!in’ tired of politicians trying to deny people the right to vote.
Democalypse 2014 -- Ad of Brothers
The Koch brothers: the next generation of Robber Barons, democratially flooding the air waves and print media with ads to drown out other voices
Rock The Vote Presents: #TURNOUTFORWHAT
Rock The Vote Presents #TURNOUTFORWHAT starring Lil Jon and featuring Lena Dunham, Whoopi Goldberg, Natasha Lyonne, Fred Armisen, E.J. Johnson, Darren Criss, Sophia Bush, Ireland Baldwin, Devendra Banhart, Ioanna Gika and Gabriel Valenciano.
Bad Reputation (Music Video)
In 2013, there were more laws passed to limit women’s reproductive rights than in the entire previous DECADE.
Friday Nite Videos -- Oct 31 (Rock the Vote 2014)
Portside
Bad Reputation (music video). Rock The Vote Presents: #TURNOUTFORWHAT. Democalypse 2014 -- Ad of Brothers. Lewis Black Says F#%! Voter Suppression. What Would Happen Under a Republican Senate?
Populism and the Left: Does UKIP Matter? Can Democracy Be Saved?
New Left Project
There is no way of addressing the various popular desires which neoliberalism failed to fulfil without a radical programme of democratic reform. Only if publics are genuinely enabled to engage in meaningful, open-ended collective decision-making in a range of spheres can the justifiable sense that things are being done being done to them by people they did not authorise to do them actually be assuaged.
Tidbits - October 30, 2014 - Two Week's Worth
Portside
Reader Comments- Ebola, Capitalism, Cuba, Disease Control; Elections- Black Vote, Voter Restrictions; War against Islamic State; Detroit; U.S. Jews Debate Israel; Berkeley Free Speech Movement, Education- Philadelphia and Common Core; Mexico, NAFTA; Wealth Inequality; New Voters in Ferguson;
Announcements- Black & Brown Unity Event-Los Angeles-Nov 8; New York City Labor Chorus Honoring Pete Seeger-New York-Nov 15; SHE'S BEAUTIFUL WHEN SHE'S ANGRY-New York showing-Nov 16
In Cold War, U.S. Spy Agencies Used 1,000 Nazis
The New York Times
U.S. agencies directly or indirectly hired numerous ex-Nazi police officials and East European collaborators who were manifestly guilty of war crimes. Information was readily available that these were compromised men. The wide use of Nazi spies grew out of a Cold War mentality and McCarthyism. Mr. Hoover, the longtime F.B.I. director, and Mr. Dulles, the C.I.A. director.believed "moderate" Nazis might "be useful" to America, records show.
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