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My childhood in Cuba under the US blockade
For the past six years on this show, we’ve talked to working people from across the United States, from virtually every walk of life, about their lives, jobs, dreams, and struggles. But today, we’re...
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‘War’ is not killing Palestinians, Israel is. Our media should frame it this...
The party responsible for a war crime—or any act of mass violence—is important information and something that should be named at the forefront of any news documenting said war crime or act of mass...
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54 years later, this former Black Panther is still behind bars
For the past 54 years, Thomas ‘Tahaka’ Gaither has lived behind bars as a political prisoner. A former member of the Black Panther Party Baltimore Chapter, Gaither was a close associate of ‘Marshall’...
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‘Julian Assange is free’: WikiLeaks founder strikes plea deal With US
This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on June 24, 2024. It is shared here with permission under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Monday...
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‘I don’t … consider Israel a real place’: Upstart candidate challenges...
Jen Perelman challenged incumbent Debbie Wasserman Schultz once before for Florida’s 25th congressional seat in the 2022 Democratic primary. Now, Perelman is back, and this time her staunch...
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Chomsky on U.S. Intervention in Central America | Under the Shadow, Bonus...
Noam Chomsky needs no introduction. He’s a celebrated linguist, who has long denounced U.S. empire at home and abroad. And he has a long relationship with Latin America. Chomsky’s 1985 book, Turning...
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In Brazil, the climate crisis is already turning working people into climate...
“Southern Brazil is facing its worst climate tragedy ever,” Latin-America-based journalist Mike Fox wrote from Brazil for the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) in early May....
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‘Reprehensible’: NTSB chair says Norfolk Southern interfered with East...
This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on June 26, 2024. It is shared here with permission under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license. The chair of the National Transportation Safety...
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We can have Cop City, or we can have democracy
This story originally appeared in Jacobin on June 23, 2024. It is shared here with permission. Atlanta residents are awaiting a court decision on whether they will be allowed to vote on the...
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Cannabis entrepreneur faces 10-year sentence in same WV county building a...
Two years ago, Michigan-based cannabis entrepreneur Coty Cecil’s camper van broke down in Milton, West Virginia. As he was awaiting repairs, Cecil was confronted by Milton police at his door. Despite...
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Well, that was a disaster
There’s no mincing words—the first presidential debate was a travesty of the highest order. The leading story is President Joe Biden’s horrendous performance and the political crisis it’s sparked...
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NTSB says Norfolk Southern threatened staff as they investigated the East...
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University endowments suppress dissent by design
This story originally appeared in Jacobin on June 30, 2024. It is shared here with permission. Why has it been so difficult for students demanding divestment from Israel to catch their university...
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Federal courts use ‘supervised release’ to doubly punish prisoners—it should...
It’s been 40 years since supervised release was first introduced into the federal court system by the 1984 Sentencing Reform Act. Supervised release, which replaced federal parole and probation, is a...
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SOAS students call out uni’s investments in white phosphorus
The student intifada has reached the UK. At the School of Oriental and African Studies, students set up an encampment in solidarity with Gaza, taking particular aim at the university’s investments in...
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In the West Bank, a rabbi fights to defend Palestinian land
In the West Bank, the Palestinian struggle to defend land from the clutches of settlers is a daily battle. Rabbi Arik Ascherman is one of the few Israeli Jews who has dedicated his life to assisting...
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Baltimore nurses at largest Catholic health network in US fight on for first...
On the morning of Thursday, June 20, unionized nurses at Ascension St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore held a rally outside the hospital to raise awareness of their efforts to secure a first contract and...
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On losing “the greatest teacher of nonviolence in America”
This story originally appeared in In These Times on July 02, 2024. It is shared here with permission. I had the privilege of teaching a course at UCLA on “Nonviolence and Social Movements” with Rev....
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Palestinians hold generations of memory—a new documentary aims to help pass...
Memory, too, is part of Palestinian resistance. Memories of stolen land, of the horrors they have survived, and of martyrs who once lived are an intimate part of Palestinians’ lives. Ross...
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‘Survival pending revolution’: Dominque Conway on education, political...
One of the most persistent myths about the US prison system is that the system of mass incarceration helps deter and change harmful behavior. Yet according to the federal government’s own statistics,...
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