Leaving Schastia, c. 2/21/2022
Patrick Daly calls it “nothingness”--News from the war zone is never good news.
Abortion Rights Are Workers’ Rights
In These Times
The Supreme Court’s plan to strike down Roe vs. Wade is an attack on workers everywhere. The labor movement should treat it that way—by taking urgent action.
Covid-19: Where It Came From, and Why There Are More To Come
Researchers who monitor emerging infectious diseases say that in the last decade the number has increased to about five per year. “It’s our human behavior and the risky things that we do that put ourselves at risk for exposure to these viruses.”
Days of the Theocracy
"First they fight abortion / birth control is next." Songs foretold where we've gotten and warned where we may go.
Happening | Movie
Based on Annie Ernaux’s semi-autobiographical novel, Happening follows Annie, a bright young student who faces an unwanted pregnancy while abortion was still illegal in 1960s France. In theaters.
Alyssa Milano | Roe v. Wade and Abortion Rights
'[Roe v. Wade] is the only thing standing between us and a world where women are criminalized for bodily autonomy.' Alyssa Milano breaks down the history of abortion rights in the U.S. and what's at stake
For Religious Right, Abortion Was a Means to Power As Segregation Lost Political Potency
Ali Velshi reviews how the religious right became frustrated by the loss of segregation as an issue to mobilize their constituency and shifted instead to prioritizing abortion as a means of consolidating religious voters into a more powerful voting bloc.
Students Stage Nationwide Walkouts for Reproductive Rights
Common Dreams
"People might look at us like we're young, but I genuinely feel like we can make the most change," said one Maine high school student. "Most of us are voting next year or this year."
W.E.B. DuBois’ Abolition Democracy
The Nation
What distinguished DuBois' close study of slavery and Reconstruction (and does so even today) was its Marxism. Black Reconstruction was his first extended effort to shine Marxism’s sweeping floodlight on the tortured history of his homeland.
Myth Busters: Why We Need To Expand the Supreme Court
Demos
Two decades of divisive Court decisions have threatened our representative democracy, weakened the fundamental right to vote, undermined racial justice, and favored the interests of the wealthiest corporations and individuals at the expense of the rights of working people. It's time to change the Court.
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