*/ 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 * / Splinter / 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 * [1] * [2] -------- TEST - CALIFORNIA FIRES - TIME FOR DISASTER SOCIALISM --------------- * Nato Green * / San Francisco Examiner / The fires are not contained. The bodies haven’t been found. It’s time to talk about politics … * [3] * [4] -------- TEST - THE HEALTHY D.C. ECONOMY IS LEAVING BEHIND LONGTIME BLACK RESIDENTS, NEW STUDY FINDS ------------------------------------------ * Perry Stein * / Washington Post / 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. * [5] * [6] -------- TEST - DOCUMENTING U.S. ROLE IN DEMOCRACY'S FALL AND DICTATOR'S RISE IN CHILE ------------------------------------------------------------ * Pascale Bonnefoy * / 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. * [7] * [8] -------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------- ** / Portside / 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) * [9] * [10] -------- REREADING "GRAPES OF WRATH" ----------------------------------------- * Barbara Nimri Aziz * / Portside / “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 * [11] * [12] -------- THERE MUST BE ZERO TOLERANCE OF MODERN SLAVERY IN THE SHIPPING INDUSTRY ------------------------------------------------------------ * Ruwan Subasinghe * / 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. * [13] * [14] -------- TEST - READING ORWELL'S 1984 IN THE CORRUPTED AGE OF TRUMP ---------- * Peter Ross * / 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. 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