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Portside aims to provide material of interest to people on the left that will help them to interpret the world and to change it.

What Prisoners Eat

John Kiriakou Consortium News
It’s not at all unusual to feed prisoners animal-grade food to save money. It happens all across the country every single day.

Police Cause Violence, Not the Other Way Around

Sonali Kolhatkar Independent Media Institute
What liberal politicians and the media refuse to acknowledge is that crime is linked to the failures of capitalism, not to the lack of police. Indeed, police are part of the problem, not the solution.

Baltimore Baristas Unionize the First Starbucks in Maryland

Lorraine Mirabella The Baltimore Sun
Starbucks baristas in Baltimore’s Mount Vernon neighborhood voted Monday to unionize, becoming the giant coffee chain’s first Maryland workers to organize amid a fast-growing national movement. The vote was 14-0.
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