Portside Digest -
Call for US to Negotiate with North Korea: Proposal to Cancel Nuclear Tests
February 2, 2015
The North Korean (DPRK) government disclosed on January 10 that it had delivered to the United States an important proposal to “create a peaceful climate on the Korean Peninsula. The US should negotiate with North Korea on its proposal to cancel nuclear tests in exchange for a US suspension of joint military exercises with South Korea.
https://portside.org/2015-02-09/call-us-negotiate-north-korea-proposal-cancel-nuclear-tests
The U.S. Immigration Battle Intensifies
February 5, 2015
In an escalating dispute with President Obama, Republican in the United States House of Representatives passed a bill to cut any funding to the Department of Homeland Security for suspending the deportation of undocumented people. This bill rescinds Obama's 2014 orders for DHS to defer the deportation of undocumented immigrants with US-born children (who are US citizens) as well as suspend the deportation of undocumented young people brought to US as children.
https://portside.org/2015-02-09/us-immigration-battle-intensifies
Dying Communities
January 30, 2015
California State University Northridge Professor Rudy Acuna relates current campus privatization plans to past and on-going struggles to build and learn from "community" with a challenge to all who resist capital and work for alternatives to institutionalized racism, genocide, Manifest Destiny, urban renewal and privatization.
https://portside.org/2015-02-09/dying-communities
Refute Military Lies with Your Vietnam Experience
February 5, 2015
Veterans For Peace (VFP) invite you to join us as we put together a special Memorial Day 2015 service. 2015 marks the 50th anniversary that some consider the beginning of the American War in Vietnam-- the deployment of the U.S. Marines to DaNang. The Defense Department has mounted a heavily funded initiative to sell to the younger generations that the Vietnam War was a noble enterprise. Join us who see the war as a grievous mistake if not an horrific crime.
https://portside.org/2015-02-09/refute-military-lies-your-vietnam-experience
How to Get Serious About Ending the ISIS War
February 5, 2015
A long-term alternative to war can only be built by popular movements in Iraq and Syria. These movements still matter, and they deserve our solidarity — not our bombs.The expanding U.S.-led war on the so-called Islamic State, or ISIS, has largely fallen off the radar of U.S. social movements. The answer to complexity is not to do nothing. With the great crimes and historic blunders — from Palestine to South Africa to Afghanistan — the task is to figure out what to do.
https://portside.org/2015-02-09/how-get-serious-about-ending-isis-war
Beyond Survival: Organizing to End Human Trafficking of Domestic Workers
February 9, 2015
With survivor stories and data, the Beyond Survival report and campaign paint a stark reality of domestic worker trafficking in the United States. Including clear policy recommendations for domestic and international decision-makers, emphasizing that survivors themselves must lead the way to end labor exploitation, Beyond Survival empowers trafficking survivors through integrated trainings and leadership development to transform work and end human trafficking.
https://portside.org/2015-02-09/beyond-survival-organizing-end-human-trafficking-domestic-workers
Sen. Cotton May Think Guantanamo and Hell Are Different. My Client Does Not
February 9, 2015
Senator Cotton may prefer hell to Guantanamo for my clients, but what does he really know about either? What he knows is how to play politics -- a game where one thing is certain: the prisoners at Guantanamo always lose.
https://portside.org/2015-02-09/sen-cotton-may-think-guantanamo-and-hell-are-different-my-client-does-not
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