[https://new.portside.org/] Material of Interest to People on the Left PORTSIDE SNAPSHOT - DECEMBER 8, 2017 WHY A CHILDREN’S BOOK HAS ZIONISTS LOSING THEIR MINDS [https://new.portside.org/2017-12-07/why-childrens-book-has-zionists-losing-their-minds] [https://new.portside.org/2017-12-07/why-childrens-book-has-zionists-losing-their-minds] STEVEN SALAITA December 1, 2017 _ Mondoweiss _ In this moment of nuclear proliferation, police brutality, resurgent Nazism, and stunning inequality, the real enemy: is a children’s book. The offending title, P is for Palestine, was recently published by Golbarg Bashi and Golrokh Nafisi after a long crowdfunding campaign. Supporters of Israeli settlements and Zionist organizations have reacted as if it’s the Hamas charter. * [https://plus.google.com/share?url=https%3A//new.portside.org/2017-12-07/why-childrens-book-has-zionists-losing-their-minds] * [https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//new.portside.org/2017-12-07/why-childrens-book-has-zionists-losing-their-minds] * [https://twitter.com/intent/tweet/?url=https%3A//new.portside.org/2017-12-07/why-childrens-book-has-zionists-losing-their-minds&text=Why%20a%20Children%E2%80%99s%20Book%20Has%20Zionists%20Losing%20Their%20Minds] RED CROSS IS INSTRUCTING TRUCKERS TO DRAW BLOOD AND NURSES TO LOAD TRUCKS [https://new.portside.org/2017-12-07/red-cross-instructing-truckers-draw-blood-and-nurses-load-trucks] [https://new.portside.org/2017-12-07/red-cross-instructing-truckers-draw-blood-and-nurses-load-trucks] KATHY WILKES December 6, 2017 _ In These Times _ A press release about a labor dispute at the American Red Cross (ARC) is challenging perceptions of the venerable institution and how it conducts its mobile unit blood drives. * [https://plus.google.com/share?url=https%3A//new.portside.org/2017-12-07/red-cross-instructing-truckers-draw-blood-and-nurses-load-trucks] * [https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//new.portside.org/2017-12-07/red-cross-instructing-truckers-draw-blood-and-nurses-load-trucks] * [https://twitter.com/intent/tweet/?url=https%3A//new.portside.org/2017-12-07/red-cross-instructing-truckers-draw-blood-and-nurses-load-trucks&text=Red%20Cross%20Is%20Instructing%20Truckers%20to%20Draw%20Blood%20and%20Nurses%20to%20Load%20Trucks] WARRING VISIONS OF PUERTO RICO'S FUTURE [https://new.portside.org/2017-12-07/warring-visions-puerto-ricos-future] [https://new.portside.org/2017-12-07/warring-visions-puerto-ricos-future] HARVEY WASSERMAN December 1, 2017 _ The Progressive _ Warring visions have now erupted over the energy and economic futures of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.Will the islands become a cutting-edge green-powered solartopia for the benefit of their long-time residents? Or a fossil-fueled robber baron playground like Hong Kong or Singapore, set to operate for the profit of outside corporate investors? * [https://plus.google.com/share?url=https%3A//new.portside.org/2017-12-07/warring-visions-puerto-ricos-future] * [https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//new.portside.org/2017-12-07/warring-visions-puerto-ricos-future] * [https://twitter.com/intent/tweet/?url=https%3A//new.portside.org/2017-12-07/warring-visions-puerto-ricos-future&text=Warring%20Visions%20of%20Puerto%20Rico%27s%20Future] CRISIS IN GERMANY? [https://new.portside.org/2017-12-07/crisis-germany] [https://new.portside.org/2017-12-07/crisis-germany] VICTOR GROSSMAN November 30, 2017 _ Portside _ The impasse in forming a government in Germany has dragged on since election day, September 24th – often like a traffic gridlock, hardly moving forward. But Germany is Europe’s main central power – and with no proper government! Angela Merkel still acts as boss, the old ruling cabinet holds on as caretakers, but it’s all on borrowed time, with no legitimacy. * [https://plus.google.com/share?url=https%3A//new.portside.org/2017-12-07/crisis-germany] * [https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//new.portside.org/2017-12-07/crisis-germany] * [https://twitter.com/intent/tweet/?url=https%3A//new.portside.org/2017-12-07/crisis-germany&text=Crisis%20In%20Germany%3F] TIDBITS - DECEMBER 7, 2017 - READER COMMENTS: JERUSALEM CATASTROPHE - JEWISH OPPOSITION; GOP TAX PLAN-TREAD SOFTLY CONGRESS; PORTSIDE'S ANNUAL FUND APPEAL; VIETNAM WAR; ;POOR PEOPLE'S CAMPAIGN; SOCIALIST UPSURGE; AND MORE.... [https://new.portside.org/2017-12-07/tidbits-december-7-2017-reader-comments-jerusalem-catastrophe-jewish-opposition-gop-tax] [https://new.portside.org/2017-12-07/tidbits-december-7-2017-reader-comments-jerusalem-catastrophe-jewish-opposition-gop-tax] December 7, 2017 _ Portside _ Reader Comments: Jerusalem Catastrophe - Jewish Voice for Peace; IfNotNow; New Israel Fund; GOP Tax Plan Biggest Increase in American History; Portsides Annual Fund Appeal; Flynns Guilty Plea...and Trump; Honduras; California Built on Genocide; Resources - 50 years since 1968 and Vietnam War; Announcements - Poor Peoples Campaign; The Socialist Upsurge in the US * [https://plus.google.com/share?url=https%3A//new.portside.org/2017-12-07/tidbits-december-7-2017-reader-comments-jerusalem-catastrophe-jewish-opposition-gop-tax] * [https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//new.portside.org/2017-12-07/tidbits-december-7-2017-reader-comments-jerusalem-catastrophe-jewish-opposition-gop-tax] * [https://twitter.com/intent/tweet/?url=https%3A//new.portside.org/2017-12-07/tidbits-december-7-2017-reader-comments-jerusalem-catastrophe-jewish-opposition-gop-tax&text=Tidbits%20-%20December%207%2C%202017%20-%20Reader%20Comments%3A%20Jerusalem%20Catastrophe%20-%20Jewish%20Opposition%3B%20GOP%20Tax%20Plan-Tread%20Softly%20Congress%3B%20Portside%27s%20Annual%20Fund%20Appeal%3B%20Vietnam%20War%3B%20%3BPoor%20People%27s%20Campaign%3B%20Socialist%20Upsurge%3B%20and%20more....] #METOO SOLIDARITY [https://new.portside.org/2017-12-07/metoo-solidarity] [https://new.portside.org/2017-12-07/metoo-solidarity] LANE WINDHAM December 4, 2017 _ Working-Class Perspectives _ Many women aren’t surprised by the accusations that dominate news headlines. What’s new is that we are openly recognizing and naming the hidden dangers that women have long navigated at work wordlessly and alone. The question is whether women will be able to turn their solidarity into an inclusive movement that can transform the workplace. * [https://plus.google.com/share?url=https%3A//new.portside.org/2017-12-07/metoo-solidarity] * [https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//new.portside.org/2017-12-07/metoo-solidarity] * [https://twitter.com/intent/tweet/?url=https%3A//new.portside.org/2017-12-07/metoo-solidarity&text=%23MeToo%20Solidarity] WE KNOW ABOUT BAD BOOKS, BUT ARE THERE BAD READERS, TOO? [https://new.portside.org/2017-12-07/we-know-about-bad-books-are-there-bad-readers-too] [https://new.portside.org/2017-12-07/we-know-about-bad-books-are-there-bad-readers-too] MERVE EMRE November 27, 2017 _ Boston Review _ The author queries the existence of bad readers, linking causes not to illiteracy or injuries of class or the diffusion of mass culture, but to a Cold War literary trend sporting "an abundance of paraliterary works," such as memoirs, diaries, biographies, diplomatic studies, and feature reports as primers for engaging with literary texts as seemingly historically accurate yet stressing outcomes and expectations consonant with systemic social ends. * [https://plus.google.com/share?url=https%3A//new.portside.org/2017-12-07/we-know-about-bad-books-are-there-bad-readers-too] * [https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//new.portside.org/2017-12-07/we-know-about-bad-books-are-there-bad-readers-too] * [https://twitter.com/intent/tweet/?url=https%3A//new.portside.org/2017-12-07/we-know-about-bad-books-are-there-bad-readers-too&text=We%20Know%20About%20Bad%20Books%2C%20But%20Are%20There%20Bad%20Readers%2C%20Too%3F] INTERPRET THE WORLD AND CHANGE IT. 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