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Material of Interest to People on the Left
-------- PORTSIDE SNAPSHOT - OCTOBER 20, 2017 --------------------------------
-------- TEST - THE WAY WE TALK ABOUT PUERTO RICO IS BULLSHIT ----------------
* Jack Mirkinson
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/ Splinter
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In the weeks since Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, you
will have no doubt seen some variation of the words “Puerto Ricans are
Americans.” It’s a well-meaning refrain coming from a wide range of
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-------- TEST - CALIFORNIA FIRES - TIME FOR DISASTER SOCIALISM ---------------
* Nato Green
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/ San Francisco Examiner
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The fires are not contained. The bodies haven’t been found.
It’s time to talk about politics …
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-------- TEST - THE HEALTHY D.C. ECONOMY IS LEAVING BEHIND LONGTIME BLACK
RESIDENTS, NEW STUDY FINDS ------------------------------------------
* Perry Stein
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/ Washington Post
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The booming and increasingly dynamic D.C. economy is leaving the
city’s longtime black residents behind, according to a study released
Thursday that examines African American employment, population and housing
trends in the nation’s capital.
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-------- TEST - DOCUMENTING U.S. ROLE IN DEMOCRACY'S FALL AND DICTATOR'S RISE
IN CHILE ------------------------------------------------------------
* Pascale Bonnefoy
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/ New York Times
/
SANTIAGO, Chile - An old rotary phone rings insistently.
Visitors at a new exhibition at the Museum of Memory and Human Rights here in
Santiago who pick up the receiver hear two men complain bitterly about the
liberal news media "bleating" over the military coup that had toppled
Salvador Allende, the Socialist president of Chile, five days earlier.
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-------- TEST - TIDBITS - OCTOBER 19, 2017 - READER COMMENTS: STOP TRUMP WAR
ON NORTH KOREA; PUERTO RICO; THE HARVEY WEINSTEIN STORY; THE
ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT; SOCIALISM; SALSA MEETS JAZZ FOR PUERTO RICO;
...AND MORE ---------------------------------------------------------
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/ Portside
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National Mobilization to Stop Trump War on North Korea - November
4 - 11 - Tidbits - Oct. 12 (Christine Ahn, Women Cross DMZ)Stop War with
North Korea; Online Teach-ins Continue (United for Peace and Justice -
UFPJ)The Human Cost of War with North Korea (SolidarityINFOService)
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-------- REREADING "GRAPES OF WRATH" -----------------------------------------
* Barbara Nimri Aziz
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/ Portside
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“The tractors came over the roads and into the fields, great
crawlers moving like insects…They crawled over the ground, laying the track
and rolling on it and picking it up. Diesel tractors, puttering while they
stood idle; they thundered when they moved, and then settled down to a
droning roar. Snub nosed monsters, raising the dust and sticking their
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-------- THERE MUST BE ZERO TOLERANCE OF MODERN SLAVERY IN THE SHIPPING
INDUSTRY ------------------------------------------------------------
* Ruwan Subasinghe
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/ Equal Times
/
When International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF)
inspector Darren Proctor visited the Panama-flagged Tahsin in
Gloucestershire, UK, in July 2017, he found evidence of the Turkish, Georgian
and Indian crew drinking seawater as there was no potable water on the ship
for over 10 days, out-of-date food, and non-operational galley equipment.
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-------- TEST - READING ORWELL'S 1984 IN THE CORRUPTED AGE OF TRUMP ----------
* Peter Ross
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/ Boston Review
/
“It was a bright cold day in April,” said Richard Blair,
“and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
Blair is seventy-three and the son of George Orwell. To witness him stand at
a lectern and read the opening line of his father’s great final
novel, 1984, is to experience a sense of completion, an equation solved.
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