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#GivingTuesday and the Challenge of Wannabe Fascism

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How can we prevent a wannabe dictator from consolidating absolute power? Please help us to inform, analyze and mobilize in the year ahead. Here's how you can help Portside on Giving Tuesday...

This Week in People’s History, Dec 4–10

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A 1969 Black Panther Party poster by Emory Douglas
Black Panthers Under the Gun - I (1969), Teddy Roosevelt Gives U.S. Imperialism the Nod (1904), Racist Terror in Vicksburg (1874), Black Panthers Under the Gun - II (1969), Coltrane Lays Down a Masterpiece (1964), A Rocky Start for Gay Rights (1924)

Anti-Zionist Israeli MP: ’I Will Never Surrender

Marcus Barnett interviews Ofer Cassif Tribune
Ofer Cassif — currently suspended from the Knesset for opposing genocide in Gaza — discusses Israel’s descent into fascism, building the movement that can defeat Netanyahu, and why he will never give up the fight for Palestinian freedom.

How Trump Plans To Seize the Power of the Purse From Congress

Molly Redden Propublica
The second-term president likely will seek to cut off spending that lawmakers have already appropriated, setting off a constitutional struggle within the branches. If successful, he could wield the power to punish perceived foes.

The Great American Turkey

Livia Gershon JSTOR
The turkey was semi-domesticated and kept in pens in the American Southwest some 2,000 years ago—but not for the reason you think.