Global Left Midweek — June 25, 2025
Portside
Resistance works
Resistance works
Resistance works
Global Left Midweek – June 18, 2025
Portside
The whole world on alert
books
Moral Limits
Dissent Magazine
This book, writes reviewer Alpert, is "a powerful account of our failures to stop the war in Gaza, despite the professed worth we place on values like empathy.
Global Left Midweek – June 11, 2025
Portside
International politics rooted in the historic struggle of peoples for progress
How Unions Can Protect Immigrants
Dissent Magazine
An interview with Faye Guenther, president of UFCW Local 3000.
Beyond the Ivy League, International Students at Rural Colleges Are Being Detained by ICE
Barn Raiser
Students, teachers and staff work “day and night” to protect the rights of international students, often the lifeblood of rural college towns
tv
Madeline Brewer Reflects on the Timely Legacies of You and the Handmaid’s Tale
AV Club
"These shows have become about getting through tough times with community and sisterhood."
A Vietnam Story: From Othering to Solidarity
Washington Spectator
Fifty years after the end of the Vietnam War, JJ Johnson reflects on the journey that led him, along with two fellow Fort Hood soldiers, to refuse orders to Vietnam. He compares then to our situation today, "the darkest period in my lifetime."
Columbia Student Has Clear Message for Trump After Judge Frees Him
The New Republic
A federal judge freed Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian student leader at Columbia University, who was part of the pro-Palestine protests. “The two weeks of detention so far demonstrate great harm to a person who has been charged with no crime,”
Solidarity Is the Core of Our Movements — It’s Also Messier Than We Often Admit
Truthout
When “resistance grows, but the killing does not stop,” it’s time to become more strategic, methodical, innovative, collaborative and dedicated to justice regardless of the whims of corporate power, institutional oppression, or societal approval.
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