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June 3, 2023

How Subaltern Studies Changed Our Understanding of Resistance Struggles

Stellan Vinthagen Waging Nonviolence

We sought to highlight a range of social, political, economic, and cultural forms of oppression that braided together in different ways in different historical situations, and which provided the focus for action by subaltern groups.

June 3, 2023

Cash Bail Is an Abomination of Justice. We Should Get Rid of It

Mansa Musa interview with David Gaspar Real News Network

The blunt fact about the cash bail system in the US is that it creates a two-tier system of “justice” in which the presumption of innocence is denied to people who have not been convicted of anything but the “crime” of being poor.

June 3, 2023

“The Police Excluded People From Our Demonstration Against Our Will and Against Our Recommendation”

Phil Butland Interview with Udi Raz (Board Member Jüdische Stimme) The Left Berlin

As Jewish Berliners, we are involved, both as an organization and as individuals, with ongoing traumas that are inherent to this process of the ongoing Nakba — of the oppression of Palestinians by Zionists in Palestine.

June 2, 2023

Friday Nite Videos | June 2, 2023

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What a Vietnam War Riot Says About Today’s Culture Wars. Color of the ‘Āina | Pō & the 4fathers | Playing for Change. This Could Be the Biggest Strike in U.S. History. The Boys – Season 3 Official Trailer. Why the Dyslexic Brain Is Misunderstood.

What a Vietnam War Riot Says About Today’s Culture Wars | Robert Reich

June 2, 2023

The "Hard Hat Riot" of 1970 was used by Nixon to stoke division and is strikingly similar to the tactics used by modern culture warriors like Ron DeSantis.

Color of the ‘Āina | Pō & the 4fathers | Playing for Change

June 2, 2023

Be transformed by the rhythmic sounds of Pō & the 4fathers as they perform "Color of the ‘Āina" Live Outside in Waiāhole, Oʻahu.

This Could Be the Biggest Strike in U.S. History

June 2, 2023

If they don't get a fair contract deal by July 31, 2023, UPS workers could go on strike. It would be the largest single-employer strike in U.S. history.

The Boys – Season 3 Official Trailer

June 2, 2023

The Boys learn of a mysterious anti-Supe weapon, crash into The Seven, start a war, and chase the legend of the first Superhero: Soldier Boy. Arrives June 3.

Why the Dyslexic Brain Is Misunderstood

June 2, 2023

How dyslexia is a differently organized brain.

June 2, 2023

Bernie Sanders: I Could Not, in Good Conscience, Vote for the Debt Ceiling Bill

Bernie Sanders Guardian

This bill cuts programs for the most vulnerable, and is totally unnecessary – why doesn’t Biden invoke the 14th amendment?