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Material of Interest to People on the Left
Friday Nite Videos | May 24, 2019
Democrats Are Overthinking Trump’s Impeachment
Women of Color in the French Resistance
Indictment of Assange for Espionage Threatens the Press
Pardoning War Criminals to Honor Memorial Day
Women Who Performed Illegal Abortions Decades Ago
Trump's Trade War Is Waged to Make the Rich Richer
Donald Trump's Sneak Attack on Social Security
Rhiannon Giddens and What Folk Music Means
Tidbits - May 23, 2019-Reader Comments, Announcements
Culture
poetry
Path to Migration
A Wolf Stands in Water
“When a thought from the past fires the soul,” writes the poet Joseph Zaccardi of a wartime memory, “time is no more.” And yet it clings to the present.
books
No Waverers Allowed: Looking Back on The Northern Ireland "Troubles."
London Review of Books
The reprinting of a classic book on the Northern Irish "Troubles" of 50 years ago is the occasion for a relook at warring nationalisms, armed violence and ethnic oppression that divided a population, leaving capital and British imperialism unscathed.
books
Maoism: A Global History
LSE Review of Books
Julia Lovell’s fascinating new history of the international career of Maoism reveals the resonance of the ‘Great Helmsman’ in a populist age.
film
Netflix Releases ‘The Wandering Earth’ Without Announcement or Fanfare
Bleeding Cool
The movie is as good (or as bad, if you feel that way) as recent Hollywood CGI-ridden blockbusters like 2012 or San Andreas but is significant from a geopolitical and cultural point of view.
food
Lawsuit claims Post falsely advertises 'real cocoa' in its cereals
FoodDive
A lawsuit filed last month accuses Post Consumer Brands of misrepresenting the ingredients in its products. The case argues that highlighting the ingredient for its simplicity wrongly implies that it is "nutritionally and organoleptically superior."
tv
Superstore’s Finale Changes Everything. Showrunner Justin Spitzer Explains.
Vox
Superstore’s season four finale is unlike anything else the show has ever done. The corporate offices of the Cloud 9 chain of Walmart-esque department stores, in an attempt to quash talk of unionizing call in Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
poetry
Elexxxion
Rattle
New York poet John Paul Davis reflects on the multitude of political candidates, their promises, their lies.
Labor
labor
End of the Road for the Socialist Revolutionary Workers’ Party? And What Future for Numsa?
Daily Maverick
Poor showing of NUMSA (National Union of Miners of South Africa) backed independent workers party calls strategy behind the breakaway decision into question.
labor
New Calls for a General Strike in the Face of Coming Climate Catastrophe
Labor Press
“There are not going to be any good union jobs if we have a dead planet.”
labor
Elder Care Homes Rake in Profits as Workers Earn a Pittance
Associated Press
Residential senior care homes profit handsomely by paying their workers poverty wages. The profit margins can be huge and, for violators of labor laws, hinge on the widespread exploitation of thousands of caretakers, many of them poor
labor
Sara Nelson: “People Are Ready to Fight”
Jacobin
On May 10, 2019, Assoc. of Flight Attendants president Sara Nelson gave a speech to the Chicago Democratic Socialists of America’s annual Eugene Debs–Lucy Gonzalez Parsons–A. Philip Randolph Dinner. Here is the speech, lightly edited for publication.
labor
Sara Nelson: “People Are Ready to Fight”
Jacobin
On May 10, 2019, Assoc. of Flight Attendants president Sara Nelson gave a speech to the Chicago Democratic Socialists of America’s annual Eugene Debs–Lucy Gonzalez Parsons–A. Philip Randolph Dinner. Here is the speech, lightly edited for publication.
labor
AFL-CIO Budget Is a Stark Illustration of the Decline of Organizing
Splinter
In 2008, just before Trumka assumed power, 12.4 percent of American workers were union members. A decade later—with organizing spending much reduced—union density in this country stands at 10.5 percent.
labor
Uber Drivers Not Employees-NLRB
Quartz
The future for Uber drivers won’t be decided by the US government.
Friday nite video
video
Stop Investigating Me! Or Else!
Donald Trump's contribution to the infrastructure meeting was one gigantic roadblock
video
W. Kamau Bell's Candid Conversation With Two Anti-Abortion Activists
W. Kamau Bell has roamed our country to talk to and try to understand people who he just doesn't get. In this show, he talks to anti-abortion activists in Mississippi.
video
An Exploding Star Spews the Building Blocks of Life
The elements that make up nearly all that you are and can see first came from the explosion of massive stars. Step inside one such explosion and explore the forces that connects each of us with the stars.
video
A Louisiana Town in the Heart of 'Cancer Alley'
Cancer haunts this Louisiana town on the banks of the Mississippi River. Residents of Reserve, feeling neglected by politicians, are fighting back against the chemical plant has been emitting carcinogens for half a century. More about the Coalition Against Death Alley here.
video
'Stable Genius' Needs an 'Intervention'? Two Views
Nancy Pelosi is firing back at Trump after his temper tantrum at their meeting, using Trump’s meltdown to try to unify her divided caucus. But former Prosecutor John Flannery argues Pelosi has “failed her primary mission” by not starting impeachment proceedings
video
Green New Deal
With the Green New Deal sparking a national conversation about all the ways to combat climate change, John Oliver looks at a few potential solutions. Guest Bill Nye the Science Guy literally torches complacency about global warming.
video
Nothing Happened
How many excuses for not holding Donald Trump accountable for his many, very public and thoroughly documented high crimes and misdemeanors?
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