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Mass Incarceration And Its Mystification: A Review Of The 13th
October 26, 2016
The 13th effectively demonstrates that criminalization has been a persistent feature of anti-Black racism. The film does not discuss the policies that gave greater power to police, prosecutors, and prisons in those critical years.
https://portside.org/2016-10-26/mass-incarceration-and-its-mystification-review-13th
The Nobel Committee Got It Wrong: Ngugi wa Thiong’o Is the Writer the World Needs Now
October 26, 2016
"When I first heard about Bob Dylan’s selection for the prize, I wasn’t concerned that the award had gone to a musician; I was disturbed that the committee had demonstrated an apparent obliviousness to the times we are living in. The US is saddled with a presidential candidate who peddles in misogyny and appeals to white supremacists. In many other countries, neo-liberals are vying with the far right for power, and the left is at its weakest." This decision felt myopic.
https://portside.org/2016-10-26/nobel-committee-got-it-wrong-ngugi-wa-thiong%E2%80%99o-writer-world-needs-now
The German Left isn’t Buried Yet, says Linke Leader
October 26, 2016
“Left-wing populism” makes clear that boundaries that create and represent identities do not run between people of different geographical origin, but among those at the bottom and at the top of society. This is a useful and appropriate populism. It has nothing to do with right-wing populism: the Others on the other side of the fence are not foreigners, but the richest 10 percent of society.
https://portside.org/2016-10-26/german-left-isn%E2%80%99t-buried-yet-says-linke-leader
Harvard's Social Justice Paradox
October 26, 2016
The university has the largest endowment in the United States and is the birthplace of some of the nation’s most progressive ideas, but workers said they couldn’t pay basic living expenses.
https://portside.org/2016-10-26/harvards-social-justice-paradox
Trump Loyalists Planned Voter Intimidation Using Fake ID Badges, Fake Exit Polling — Until HuffPost Asked Them About It
October 26, 2016
The “Vote Protectors” are affiliated with Trump adviser Roger Stone.
https://portside.org/2016-10-26/trump-loyalists-planned-voter-intimidation-using-fake-id-badges-fake-exit-polling-%E2%80%94-until
Unions Push For Big Turnout In Ohio
October 27, 2016
In Ohio, United Steelworkers of America and the American Federation of State County and Municipal Workers rally in support of Secretary Hillary Clinton.
https://portside.org/2016-10-27/unions-push-big-turnout-ohio
Unions Push For Big Turnout In Ohio
October 26, 2016
Unions, including the United Steelworkers of America and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, rally to help elect Secretary Hillary Clinton in Ohio.
https://portside.org/2016-10-26/unions-push-big-turnout-ohio
High Hitler: How Nazi Drug Abuse Steered the Course of History
October 26, 2016
This new book details a little-known aspect of the leaders of Nazi Germany: that many of them, including Hitler himself, were drug addicts. Rachel Cooke has interviewed author Norman Ohler and gives us this portrait.
https://portside.org/2016-10-26/high-hitler-how-nazi-drug-abuse-steered-course-history
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