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Message to Graduates 2013 and 1968 - Hopes, Struggles, Huge and the Biggest Debt Ever

Portside moderator — 2013-05-23T22:33:32-04:00

Message to Graduates 2013 and 1968 - Hopes, Struggles, Huge and the Biggest Debt Ever

May 23, 2013
By Robert Reich, Phil Izzo
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Cynicism or struggle? Cynicism is self-fulfilling prophesy. The generation of 1968 fought - America changed. The changes didn't come easily. Every positive step was met with determined resistance. But we became better and stronger because we were determined to change. Today to make progress, to prevent slipping backwards - will require no less steadfastness, intelligence, and patience than was necessitated before. Graduates today are the most indebted - ever. [...]

Terracide and the Terrarists, Destroying the Planet for Record Profits

Portside moderator — 2013-05-23T23:10:20-04:00

Terracide and the Terrarists, Destroying the Planet for Record Profits

May 23, 2013
By Tom Engelhardt
TomDispatch.com (May 23, 2013)

"Terracide." A new word - it's meant to encompass the almost unimaginable -- what the big energy companies are doing on and to our planet right now. Their execs are consciously destroying/melting it for profit and if that doesn't make them terrorists -- or terrarists - what does? And if that doesn't also make the companies themselves the biggest criminal enterprise in history, then how would you define that term? [...]

Chicago School Closings-Largest in US History

Portside moderator — 2013-05-23T22:22:45-04:00

Chicago School Closings-Largest in US History

May 23, 2013
By Diane Ravitch, Mark Naison, Karen Lewis, Randi Weingarten
(May 23, 2013)

Never in U.S. history has a local school board - or any other board, appointed or elected - chosen to close 49 public schools. School closings are part and parcel of a strategy for remaking the American metropolis and will further cement economic inequality. "Today is a day of mourning for the children of Chicago. Their education has been hijacked by an unrepresentative, unelected corporate school board. Closing schools is not an education plan." [...]

Tidbits - May 23, 2013

Portside moderator — 2013-05-23T22:12:57-04:00

Tidbits - May 23, 2013

May 23, 2013
By
Portside (May 23, 2013)

Reader Comments on Matt Taibbi: Everything Is Rigged; Chiefs Declare Keystone XL Invalid; Rape in the Military; Islamophobia; Real IRS Scandal; Kissinger; Viet Nam War; Cambodia; Marx Banned in Hungary;

Announcements: Black Talkies On Parade Film Series - Los Angeles - May 25; The Future of the Left - A Conversation on Socialist Unity - New York - June 5 - event moved to larger location [...]

Fairness at Peabody Coal - Deadline Coming Up

Portside moderator — 2013-05-23T21:47:48-04:00

Fairness at Peabody Coal - Deadline Coming Up

May 23, 2013
By Laura Flanders
Grit TV (May 23, 2013)

Remember the phrase "good union job"? Living wages, basic safety protections, and guaranteed quality healthcare for life. Today Peabody Coal is taking away retiree health care and pensions, yet they have record profits. Why the fight for retiree pensions at Peabody Coal is in everyone's interest. [...]

Efrain Rios Montt Will Still Face Justice--And So Should Henry Kissinger

Portside moderator — 2013-05-22T17:04:28-04:00

Efrain Rios Montt Will Still Face Justice--And So Should Henry Kissinger

May 22, 2013
By By Van Gosse
History News Network (May 22, 2013)

Despite the May 20 ruling by Guatemala’s Constitutional Court, which overturned the original verdict on procedural grounds, the May 10 conviction of that country’s former head of state, General Efrain Rios Montt, for the genocide of Guatemala’s Mayan people, could be a defining event in modern history. [...]

Oklahoma Tornado Fallout: The Sequester Cut Disaster Assistance and Weather-Warning Funds

Portside moderator — 2013-05-22T17:40:35-04:00

Oklahoma Tornado Fallout: The Sequester Cut Disaster Assistance and Weather-Warning Funds

May 22, 2013
By By Matt Vasilogambros
The Atlantic (May 21, 2013)

Disaster personnel and volunteers have to rely critical federal funding that's been slashed.

As disaster personnel and volunteers comb through the havoc left by the tornadoes that tore through Oklahoma on Sunday and Monday, they are going to rely on critical federal funding that was severely cut by the massive cuts known as sequestration. [...]

Protesting Walmart: The New Freedom Riders

Portside moderator — 2013-05-22T17:15:10-04:00

Protesting Walmart: The New Freedom Riders

May 22, 2013
By By Berry Craig
LA Progressive (May 19, 2013)

Called the “Ride for Respect,” the demonstration at Walmart corporate headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, will be modeled on civil rights volunteers who rode buses into the South in the 1960s to protest Jim Crow racial injustice. [...]

Shining Sunlight on a Secretive Lobby Group

Portside moderator — 2013-05-22T15:31:22-04:00

Shining Sunlight on a Secretive Lobby Group

May 22, 2013
By By Nancy MacLean
NC Policy Watch (May 17, 2013)

If we don’t want our state and national laws drafted by corporations in partnership with right-wing ideologues impervious to empirical evidence of the toll their ideas take, we citizens of all backgrounds who believe in “government of the people, by the people, and for the people” must come together to find our voices and vote our values. [...]

Protest 'Democracy' Award to Kissinger

Portside moderator — 2013-05-22T15:25:41-04:00

Protest 'Democracy' Award to Kissinger

May 22, 2013
By By John Miller
East Timor & Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) (May 22, 2013)

Protesters will express their outrage at the honoring of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger with the Intrepid Freedom Award for his "his distinguished career defending the values of freedom and democracy." The protest will condemn the honoring of the accused war criminal by the museum's foundation. [...]

Media Bits & Bytes - Hacking, Stalking and Spying Edition

Portside moderator — 2013-05-21T23:30:00-04:00

Media Bits & Bytes - Hacking, Stalking and Spying Edition

May 21, 2013
By
Portside (May 21, 2013)

Kochs to Buy L.A.Times? Unions Say "No!"; Massive Biometric Database Proposal Hidden In Immigration Bill; NSA Releases Guide to Internet Spying; Scandal Sheets on the DoJ/AP Leak and Bloomberg Reporters Stalking Their Customers; Hollywood Challenges Books for the Blind; Girl Coder Beats the Boys in Hackathon Competition [...]

How America Became a Third World Country 2013-2023

Portside moderator — 2013-05-21T20:23:32-04:00

How America Became a Third World Country 2013-2023

May 21, 2013
By Mattea Kramer and Jo Comerford
TomDispatch (May 21, 2013)

How America Became a Third World Country
TomDispatch regulars Mattea Kramer and Jo Comerford of the invaluable National Priorities Project look at the "homeland" a decade into the future, as the effects of Congress's austerity policies sink in. Put the two together and what a grim scene you have: a country investing in war in distant lands as it crumbles here at home. [...]

Conviction of Genocidal Dictator Efrain Rios Montt Overturned by Guatemala's Highest Court

Portside moderator — 2013-05-21T20:42:49-04:00

Conviction of Genocidal Dictator Efrain Rios Montt Overturned by Guatemala's Highest Court

May 21, 2013
By Asawin Suebsaeng
Mother Jones (May 21, 2013)

On Monday, Guatemala's Constitutional Court overturned the conviction of former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt, an army general who ruled as de facto president from 1982 to 1983.

On Monday, Guatemala's Constitutional Court overturned the conviction of former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt, an army general who ruled as de facto president from 1982 to 1983. On May 10, Ríos Montt, 86, was found guilty by a three-panel tribunal on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity, and sentenced [...]

Chiefs Declare Keystone XL Invalid, Walk Out on State Department Officials

Portside moderator — 2013-05-21T20:05:22-04:00

Chiefs Declare Keystone XL Invalid, Walk Out on State Department Officials

May 21, 2013
By ICTMN Staff
Indian Country (May 17, 2013)

Elders and chiefs of at least 10 sovereign nations walked out of a meeting with U.S. State Department officials in Rapid City, South Dakota, on Thursday May 16 in which the government was attempting to engage in tribal consultation over the Keystone XL pipeline. [...]

Retailers Key to Bangladesh Worker Safety

Portside moderator — 2013-05-21T19:52:31-04:00

Retailers Key to Bangladesh Worker Safety

May 21, 2013
By Mike Hall
AFL-CIO Now (May 17, 2013)

A coalition of faith organizations, investors and labor groups—including the AFL-CIO—is urging major U.S. retailers, including Walmart, Gap, Sears and others, to sign on to a binding workplace and fire safety plan to prevent tragedies such as the recent building collapse in Bangladesh that killed more than 1,100 garment workers and two 2012 fires that claimed the lives of more than 400 Bangladeshi clothing workers. [...]

Nerds, Jocks & Conscientious Objectors: The Hidden World of Israel’s High School War Resisters

Portside moderator — 2013-05-20T22:31:45-04:00

Nerds, Jocks & Conscientious Objectors: The Hidden World of Israel’s High School War Resisters

May 20, 2013
By Sarah Lazare
Yes Magazine (May 19, 2013)

High school's tough enough without having to face prison time for refusing to serve an occupation you know is wrong.

When the 19-year-old Israeli war resister Noam Gur attends weekly demonstrations against the occupation of Palestine, the soldiers who suppress the protestors—with tear gas, stun grenades, and occasionally live fire—aren’t just strangers in uniform. Among them are her former high school classmates, who have been conscripted into the Israeli army.
Gur was supposed to serve, [...]

What Comes After Hope

Portside moderator — 2013-05-20T22:17:49-04:00

What Comes After Hope

May 20, 2013
By Rebecca Solnit
Tomdispatch.com (May 19, 2013)

Civil society is our power, our joy, and our possibility, and it has written a lot of the history in the last few years, as well as the last half century. If you doubt our power, see how it terrifies those at the top, and remember that they fight it best by convincing us it doesn’t exist. [...]

Monsanto Protection Act May Soon be Repealed

Portside moderator — 2013-05-20T22:07:19-04:00

Monsanto Protection Act May Soon be Repealed

May 20, 2013
By Anthony Gucciardi
Nation of Change (May 20, 2013)

Senator Barbara Mikulski of Maryland actually went and released a statement apologizing for allowing the Monsanto Protection Act through and vowing to fight against GMOs and Monsanto.

The so-called Monsanto Protection Act signed into law earlier this year caused such an outrage that people around the world are planning to protest the biotech company later this month. Now a United States Senator is expected to try and repeal that law after mounting pressure.
The notorious ‘Monsanto Protection Act’ rider stuffed into the non-related Senate spending [...]

Unpacking the idea of “Islamophobia”

Portside moderator — 2013-05-20T21:59:30-04:00

Unpacking the idea of “Islamophobia”

May 20, 2013
By Merdith Tax
50.50 Inclusive Democracy (May 20, 2013)

The term “Islamophobia” is everywhere, but its meanings work at cross purposes - to liberals, it refers to discrimination and hate crimes that can be addressed through existing laws, but to fundamentalists, it refers to offenses against religion that must be addressed through censorship or death. [...]

An Answer to Unemployment: A Jobs-for-All Bill

Portside moderator — 2013-05-20T21:34:29-04:00

An Answer to Unemployment: A Jobs-for-All Bill

May 20, 2013
By Rep. John Conyers Jr. and Philip L. Harvey
Roll Call (May 17, 2013)

Act would boost employment now for the many who need it, eliminate residual joblessness even in times of prosperity.

It has been five years since the financial crisis struck, and progress in putting the unemployed back to work still lags, with no end in sight.
With almost 12 million Americans unemployed and millions more underemployed, we have waited long enough for government action. Listen to the stories of the unemployed, and you will realize that we [...]

Is This Virtual Worm the First Sign of the Singularity?

Portside moderator — 2013-05-19T22:19:11-04:00

Is This Virtual Worm the First Sign of the Singularity?

May 19, 2013
By Alexis C. Madrigal
The Atlantic (May 17, 2013)

"But until you can quantify and put the whole thing into a computer and simulate it and show your computer model can behave in the same way as the real one, I don't think you can say you understand it." [...]

Chicago Teachers Fight On

Portside moderator — 2013-05-19T23:53:13-04:00

Chicago Teachers Fight On

May 19, 2013
By
(May 19, 2013)

Karen Lewis, the fiery leader of the Chicago Teachers Union who led a strike last year and became a nationally known anti-school reform figure, has been elected to another three-year term as president. Today she will lead the first of three days of protests against Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s plan to close 54 public schools. New report issued on 59th anniversary of Brown v Board of Ed and history of disruptive actions against communities of color by Chicago Public Schools. [...]

The Real Irs Scandal: Targeting By Class

Portside moderator — 2013-05-19T23:14:37-04:00

The Real Irs Scandal: Targeting By Class

May 19, 2013
By David Dayen
Salon (May 16, 2013)

For all the talk of scandal regarding the IRS targeting groups named “Tea Party” or “Patriot,” it’s not hard to draw an additional lesson from the facts of the case — a pattern that follows the well-worn model of the modern political age: Benefits flow to the rich and the well-connected, with pain for the rest. [...]

Mound of Canadian Oil Waste Is Rising Over Detroit

Portside moderator — 2013-05-19T22:51:47-04:00

Mound of Canadian Oil Waste Is Rising Over Detroit

May 19, 2013
By Ian Austen
New York Times (May 17, 2013)

Detroit’s ever-growing black mountain is the unloved, unwanted and long overlooked byproduct of Canada’s oil sands boom. And no one knows quite what to do about it, except Koch Carbon, which owns it. The company sells the high-sulfur, high-carbon waste, usually overseas, where it is burned as fuel. [...]

How Children Transformed America

Portside moderator — 2013-05-19T21:34:15-04:00

How Children Transformed America

May 19, 2013
By Marian Wright Edelman
Huffington Post (May 17, 2013)

"We seek to honor on this fiftieth anniversary of the Birmingham Children’s Crusade the role of children and youth who were frontline soldiers in desegregating public schools and public accommodations. I hope they will inspire us to remind children and youth today that they are not citizens in waiting; they too can be transforming agents for change." [...]

Hospitals Should be Care Providers not Loan Sharks

Portside moderator — 2013-05-18T14:27:49-04:00

Hospitals Should be Care Providers not Loan Sharks

May 18, 2013
By Deborah Burger
National Nurses United (May 18, 2013)

Hospital lobbyists have tried for years to convince us all that predatory pricing policies don’t matter. But the grotesque reality tells a different story.

If there is one problem that symbolizes the ongoing national healthcare emergency, it is the rampant price gouging in the healthcare industry that continues to price too many Americans out of access to care and into financial ruin. Not only is the problem not solved by the Affordable Care Act, but it is a likely reason [...]

REWIND - A Week of Quotes and Cartoons

Portside moderator — 2013-05-18T18:13:08-04:00

REWIND - A Week of Quotes and Cartoons

May 18, 2013
By
Portside (May 18, 2013)

Mothers Day, unemployment, Pope Francis, climate change and more...

REWIND - A Week of Quotes and Cartoons
SUNDAY
Quote of the Day
May 12, 2013
'More women workers are in minimum-wage jobs than men, yet our minimum wage hasn't kept up. (If it had kept up with inflation since 1968 it would be over $10 today.)
'We've even cut aid pre-natal and post-natal medical care for poor infants and mothers.
'And we have put a five-year limit on aid to single women with children [...]

Getting Past the Icon -- Should Photographers Depict Reality, or Try to Change It?

Portside moderator — 2013-05-18T17:27:20-04:00

Getting Past the Icon -- Should Photographers Depict Reality, or Try to Change It?

May 18, 2013
By David Bacon
afterimage, the journal of media arts and cultural criticism, vol. 40, no. 6 ()

Can photographers be participants in the social events they document? Eighty years ago the question would have seemed irrelevant in the political upsurges of the 1930s, in both Mexico and the United States. Many photographers were political activists, and saw their work intimately connected to workers strikes, political revolution or the movements for indigenous rights. Now a book and a recent exhibition should reopen this debate. [...]

Hong Kong Ddockers Claim Victory

Portside moderator — 2013-05-18T13:58:49-04:00

Hong Kong Ddockers Claim Victory

May 18, 2013
By Stephen Philion
Labor Notes (May 7, 2013)

A 40-day strike of more than 500 dockworkers at the Port of Hong Kong ended with a settlement including a 9.8 percent wage increase - a much-needed sign that resistance to global capital is still relevant and possible. Strikers accepted the offer by a 90 percent vote.
Interview with the dockworkers union Secretary Wong Yu Loy [...]

A New Party of the British Left Comes One Step Closer

Portside moderator — 2013-05-18T11:15:28-04:00

A New Party of the British Left Comes One Step Closer

May 18, 2013
By Salman Shaheen
Red Pepper (UK) (May 18, 2013)

‘We have been through some bitter experiences and we need to learn from the past.'

When Ken Loach launched an appeal to discuss founding a new party to the left of Labour in March, it sparked a wave of enthusiasm. Within a few weeks, more than 8,000 people signed up and around 100 local groups were established across the country.
It isn’t hard to see why. Austerity is devastating Britain. While the Conservative-led government is giving tax [...]

The Most Important #Muckreads on Rape in the Military

Portside moderator — 2013-05-18T00:08:58-04:00

The Most Important #Muckreads on Rape in the Military

May 17, 2013
By Christie Thompson
ProPublica (May 16, 2013)

An estimated 26,000 service members were sexually assaulted in 2012, according to the latest government report. That’s up from 19,000 in 2010, despite recent claims that the military has been focusing more on prevention efforts. [...]

Matt Taibbi: Everything Is Rigged

Portside moderator — 2013-05-18T00:16:18-04:00

Matt Taibbi: Everything Is Rigged

May 17, 2013
By Matt Taibbi
Rolling Stone (April 25, 2013)

The Illuminati were amateurs. The second huge financial scandal of the year reveals the real international conspiracy: There's no price the big banks can't fix.

Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game. We found this out in recent months, when a series of related [...]

Friday Nite Videos -- May 17, 2013

Portside moderator — 2013-05-18T01:48:05-04:00

Friday Nite Videos -- May 17, 2013

May 17, 2013
By
Portside (May 17, 2013)

A&F Gets a Brand Readjustment. Ali Farka Toure and Toumani Diabate. Just Cancel the Sequester. Everyone But Cheney and Rumsfeld. Absolutamente Quilapayun.

A&F Gets a Brand Readjustment #FitchTheHomeless

Give away your Abercrombie & Fitch clothes to the homeless. Together, we can remake the A&F brand. Published on May 13, 2013. [...]

The Public Deserves Free Access to Research

Portside moderator — 2013-05-17T23:50:06-04:00

The Public Deserves Free Access to Research

May 17, 2013
By Michael B. Eisen
The Daily Californian (February 1, 2013)

When the Internet began to take off in the mid-1990’s, it created the opportunity to do something scholars had been dreaming of for millennia — to gather all of the writings of scholars past and present together in a single online public library — a free, globally accessible version of the ancient library in Alexandria. But 20 years on and we are barely any closer to achieving this goal. [...]

Today Is Food Revolution Day. Connect With Food.

Portside moderator — 2013-05-17T23:42:23-04:00

Today Is Food Revolution Day. Connect With Food.

May 17, 2013
By Alessandro Demaio
Public Library of Science (May 17, 2013)

An eggplant should be as obvious to a 7 year old as an iPhone. Knowing how to make a loaf of bread should be part of the national curriculum, and an understanding of seasonality and our food supply should be taught from a young age. [...]

Deficit Fixed. Now Fix The Job Gap, Wage Gap And Trade Gap

Portside moderator — 2013-05-17T02:03:18-04:00

Deficit Fixed. Now Fix The Job Gap, Wage Gap And Trade Gap

May 16, 2013
By Dave Johnson
Campaign for America's Future (May 16, 2013)

The "deficit problem" is man-made. The deficit is now down 60 percent as a percent of gross domestic product. It is down more than the deficit hawks Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles asked for. This rapid reduction is seriously hurting the economy and jobs, but demands for cuts continue. It is time for Congress and the President to "pivot" to focusing on our real problems: the jobs gap, the wage gap and the trade gap. [...]

Tidbits - May 16, 2013

Portside moderator — 2013-05-17T01:28:59-04:00

Tidbits - May 16, 2013

May 16, 2013
By
Portside (May 16, 2013)

Reader's Comments - Assata Shakur, Israel, Korea, Thoreau's Radicalism, Thoreau's Plea for John Brown, Cuba, Benghazi, Spanish town solves unemployment, Viet Nam, more.
Announcements - Conference on the Veterans' Peace Movement - New York - May 18; Greek American Radicals - screening - New York - May 25; Radical Teacher on line; Symphony for Palestine; The Future of the Left - Conversation on Socialist Unity - New York - June 5; NY Times full page ad [...]

Strike and You're Out: The Supreme Court's Destruction of the Right to Strike

Portside moderator — 2013-05-17T00:53:15-04:00

Strike and You're Out: The Supreme Court's Destruction of the Right to Strike

May 17, 2013
By Ann C Hodges and Prof. Ellen Dannin, Truthout News Analysis
Truthout (April 25, 2013)

The strike has long been labor's most powerful weapon. Strikes put pressure on the employer - which needs the employees' labor to run the business. Congress understood the importance of the strike to labor unions, so it protected strikes in two ways in the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). Although Congress made it clear that it viewed the strike as a right of utmost importance, the Supreme Court wasted [...]

Urge NYT Public Editor to Investigate Biased Reporting on Venezuela & Honduras

Portside moderator — 2013-05-17T00:45:29-04:00

Urge NYT Public Editor to Investigate Biased Reporting on Venezuela & Honduras

May 17, 2013
By
NY Times eXaminer (May 14, 2013)

New York Times is asked to examine its coverage of Venezuela and Honduras by leading journalists, activists and media scholars. "Whatever one thinks of the democratic credentials of Chávez's presidency-and we recognize that reasonable people can disagree about it-there is nothing in the record, when compared with that of his Honduran counterparts, to warrant the discrepancies in the Times's coverage of the two governments." [...]

As Obama's National Economic Agenda Falters, Activists Must Mobilize in States

Portside moderator — 2013-05-17T00:41:49-04:00

As Obama's National Economic Agenda Falters, Activists Must Mobilize in States

May 17, 2013
By Randy Shaw
BeyondChron (May 13, 2013)

The current political environment shows that activists must be flexible in choosing which political arenas are most open to their goals. Opportunities for state government to enact progressive economic measures are there for the taking, but are not being seized due to a lack of grassroots pressure that is connected to the exclusive focus on federal action. [...]

Genocide in Guatemala: The Conviction of Efrain Rios Montt

Portside moderator — 2013-05-15T18:49:24-04:00

Genocide in Guatemala: The Conviction of Efrain Rios Montt

May 15, 2013
By by Binoy Kampmark
Dissident Voice (May 13, 2013)

The soiled hands of this incident are many. They did not start or stop with Rios Montt.

It has been hailed as the first conviction for genocide of a former head of state in his own country, and certainly the first of a former Latin American strongman. Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt was convicted by a Guatemalan court on Friday for his participation in crimes against the Mayans during his rule in 1982 and 1983. His sentences were [...]

Why isn't New Orleans Mother's Day parade shooting a 'national tragedy'?

Portside moderator — 2013-05-15T18:32:02-04:00

Why isn't New Orleans Mother's Day parade shooting a 'national tragedy'?

May 15, 2013
By By David Dennis
The Guardian (May 15, 2013)

The media seems to forget about New Orleans and any place that the middle class can't easily relate to

On 3 September 2005 – less than a week after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast – I began to understand that America cared little about what was happening in New Orleans.
I was an undergraduate at Davidson College in North Carolina at the time, worried out of my mind because my family in Mississippi was still without [...]

Milwaukee Fast Food Workers Walk Out

Portside moderator — 2013-05-15T18:18:27-04:00

Milwaukee Fast Food Workers Walk Out

May 15, 2013
By By Ruth Conniff
The Progressive (May 15, 2013)

Calling for $15 an hour and the right to form a union without fear of reprisal from their bosses, workers at McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, Simply Fashion and Taco Bell in Milwaukee joined their fellow workers who have walked off the job in Detroit, New York City, Chicago and St. Louis in recent weeks. [...]

27% of Spaniards are Out of Work. Yet in One Town Everyone Has a Job

Portside moderator — 2013-05-15T18:09:12-04:00

27% of Spaniards are Out of Work. Yet in One Town Everyone Has a Job

May 15, 2013
By By Alasdair Fotheringham
The Independent (May 12, 2013)

As Spanish unemployment reaches another record high, the residents of rural Marinaleda could be forgiven for feeling a little smug

As Spanish unemployment reaches another record high, the residents of rural Marinaleda could be forgiven for feeling a little smug. [...]

Letter to President Obama Concerning Assata Shakur

Portside moderator — 2013-05-15T17:58:53-04:00

Letter to President Obama Concerning Assata Shakur

May 15, 2013
By
Published by Portside (May 10, 2013)

"We ask that the FBI be directed to publicly produce documentation to support these claims, and that until and unless this is done, its officials be directed to withdraw these assertions. The FBI’s accompanying actions should also be immediately withdrawn for the following additional reasons." [...]