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January 31, 2019

Tidbits - Jan. 31, 2019 - Reader Comments: Trump Shutdown; What LA Teachers Won; Impeach Trump; Roger Stone; Venezuela - Opposition to Coup, Resources to fight; Elizabeth Warren; Angela Davis Re-Awarded; Black History Month Events;

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Reader Comments: Trump Shutdown; What LA Teachers Won; Impeach Trump; Roger Stone; Venezuela - Opposition to Coup Attempt; Resources to fight; Elizabeth Warren; Angela Davis Re-Awarded; Resources; Announcements - Black history and today; and more....

January 24, 2019

Tidbits - Jan. 24, 2019 - Reader Comments: Time for Federal Workers to Get Sick; LA Teachers Win!; MLK's Radical Internationalism; Attacks on the Women’s March; Zionism; Palestine; Angela Davis; Bernie Sanders; and more...

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Reader Comments: Time for Federal Workers to Get Sick; LA Teachers Win!; Dr. King's Radical Internationalism; Attacks on the Women’s March; JVP - On Zionism; Time to Break the Silence on Palestine; Angela Davis Supported; Bernie Sanders; and more...

music

December 14, 2018

10 of the Best Political Albums You'll Hear This Year

Mat Ward Green Left Weekly

Here are the best new albums that related to this month's politics. (David Crosby, Southeast Desert Metal, Indigenoise, Darren Hayman, Midnight Oil, Barbra Streisand, Arturo O'Farrill, Bobby Sessions, Glitoris, OHHMS).

October 31, 2018

The Soundtrack of the Sixties Demanded Respect, Justice and Equality

Michael V. Drake The Conversation

Perhaps in no other time in American history did popular music more clearly reflect the political and cultural moment than the soundtrack of the 1960s – one that exemplified a new and overt social consciousness.

books

October 31, 2018

This Land Is Your Land - Woody Guthrie and the Journey of an American Folksong

Liz Thomson New Statesman

At a moment when the President of the United States is attacking the very idea of U.S. citizenship, this book reminds us how the true — and Constitutional — ideal of who this country belongs to is embedded in our traditions.

September 27, 2018

Tidbits - Sept. 27, 2018 - Reader Comments: Rape, Sexual Assault, Power, Kavanaugh; 2018 elections; Climate Change; Healthcare; Police Crimes; Hiroshima; Folk music Announcements; and more.....

Portside

Reader Comments: Rape, Sexual Assault, Power and Kavanaugh; 2018 elections;Jess King, Julia Salazar, Socialism; Climate Change; Healthcare; police crimes; housing; Hiroshima; energy; folk music; Announcements; and more.....

Dave Van Ronk | He Was A Friend Of Mine

June 1, 2018

Dave Van Ronk ('The mayor of Greenwich Village'), performs a classic homage to a lost comrade.

March 16, 2018

Friday Nite Videos | March 16, 2018

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Betsy DeVos Flunked Her '60 Minutes' Test. Sixteen Tums | Parody of Sixteen Tons. The Disturbing History of the Suburbs. Anonymous | Down the Dark Web Documentary. Parkland Survivors Discuss Privilege and Responsibility.

Sixteen Tums | parody of Sixteen Tons

March 16, 2018

This protest song describing the plight of the worker is as apt now as it was when it was written back in the 1940s. The lyrics have been updated but the sentiment is the same.

September 15, 2017

Friday Nite Videos | September 15, 2017

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Donald Trump's Rage Against 'Idiot' Sessions. John Oliver | Colin Kaepernick. A Former Neo-Nazi Is Trying to Stop the Spread of Hate. Movie | The Young Karl Marx. Dave Van Ronk | House Of The Rising Sun.

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