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June 14, 2013

IndustriALL launches new print magazine “Global Worker”

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The first copy of IndustriALL Global Union’s biannual print magazine “Global Worker” was launched this week at the 28-29 May IndustriALL Executive Committee.

Richie Havens Opens Woodstock: 'Freedom'

June 14, 2013

Richie Havens (1941-2013) opens the Woodstock concert in 1969 with the song 'Freedom.' Havens was an influential musical and political figure for more than 30 years.

Back in Black - Future Technology

June 14, 2013

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
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Lewis Black will gladly give up all of his private information, just so long as the future contains robotic beer butlers.

Natural Selection, the Rap Guide to Evolution

June 14, 2013

A track from Baba Brinkman's album The Rap Guide to Evolution, sponsored by the Wellcome Trust. Also rapping and breaking: Charles Darwin, Sarah Palin, and Richard Dawkins.

Maurice Sendak Google Doodle

June 14, 2013

This Google Doodle celebrates Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen), who would have been 85 this week.

New Album : Mavis Staples' One True Vine

June 14, 2013

Mavis Staples -- singer, actor and civil rights activist -- has a' new album 'One True Vine,' available on June 25.

PRISM Surveillance Program

June 14, 2013

The Colbert Report
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Conservatives applaud Obama for imitating George W. Bush, and The Guardian wants a Pulitzer for printing Edward Snowden's NSA revelations.

June 14, 2013

Friday Nite Videos -- June 14, 2013

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Conservatives applaud President Obama's PRISM program. Mavis Staples' One True Vine released. The Rap Guide to Evolution. Maurice Sendak Google Doodle. Lewis Black's Future Tech. Richie Havens opens Woodstock.

June 14, 2013

Reading Marx in Tehran

Mansour Osanloo The New York Times

In the face of Iran's economic crisis and declining living conditions, none of the current candidates on the ballot has put forward a tangible economic plan that addresses workers’ concerns. They have made references to difficulties and criticized the Ahmadinejad administration’s mismanagement and corruption, but they have not proposed or discussed any solutions to the workers’ plight.

June 14, 2013

Real-Life True Blood: Synthetic Blood Is Coming

Devon Maloney Wired

Season 6 of HBO’s vampire drama True Blood premieres on Sunday night, presumably following up on last year’s cliffhanger where the factory that produces Tru-Blood — the bottled synthetic blood that allows vampires go “vegetarian” — was burned to the ground, destroying the product that made it possible for vampires to non-violently co-exist with people. But out here in the real world, the future of synthetic blood is just beginning.