[https://new.portside.org/] Material of Interest to People on the Left PORTSIDE SNAPSHOT - DECEMBER 15, 2017 THE VICTORY IN ALABAMA - BLACK VOTERS CRUCIAL - HOW ROY MOORE WAS DEFEATED (FOUR PERSPECTIVES) [https://new.portside.org/2017-12-15/victory-alabama-black-voters-crucial-how-roy-moore-was-defeated-four-perspectives] [https://new.portside.org/2017-12-15/victory-alabama-black-voters-crucial-how-roy-moore-was-defeated-four-perspectives] BILL FLETCHER, JR.; ALLY BOGUHN; KIRA LERNER; DOUGLAS WILLIAMS AND BRYAN CONLON December 14, 2017 _ Portside _ 98 percent of black women and 93% of black men voted for Democratic Senator-elect Doug Jones yesterday in Alabama, a state where black people make up a quarter of the population. Black voters made up 28% of the electorate on Tuesday, a turnout that hasn’t been seen since President Obama’s 2008 and 2012 campaigns. Since those numbers started to trickle in late last night and early this morning, one thing became clear: black voters saved America from Roy Moore. * * [https://plus.google.com/share?url=https%3A//new.portside.org/2017-12-15/victory-alabama-black-voters-crucial-how-roy-moore-was-defeated-four-perspectives] * [https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//new.portside.org/2017-12-15/victory-alabama-black-voters-crucial-how-roy-moore-was-defeated-four-perspectives] * [https://twitter.com/intent/tweet/?url=https%3A//new.portside.org/2017-12-15/victory-alabama-black-voters-crucial-how-roy-moore-was-defeated-four-perspectives&text=The%20Victory%20in%20Alabama%20-%20Black%20Voters%20Crucial%20-%20How%20Roy%20Moore%20Was%20Defeated%20%28four%20perspectives%29] SHERYL CROW CRITICIZES COUNTRY STARS FOR NOT 'TAKING A STAND' ON GUN CONTROL [https://new.portside.org/2017-12-15/sheryl-crow-criticizes-country-stars-not-taking-stand-gun-control] [https://new.portside.org/2017-12-15/sheryl-crow-criticizes-country-stars-not-taking-stand-gun-control] LOIS BECKETT December 12, 2017 _ The Guardian _ Sheryl Crow, who is releasing a song dedicated to Newtown victims, says country musicians are afraid of speaking about gun laws and losing their audience. Money and fear have kept country music artists from speaking out about gun laws, the nine-time Grammy Award-winner said, even after thousands of country fans were targeted in October in the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. * * [https://plus.google.com/share?url=https%3A//new.portside.org/2017-12-15/sheryl-crow-criticizes-country-stars-not-taking-stand-gun-control] * [https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//new.portside.org/2017-12-15/sheryl-crow-criticizes-country-stars-not-taking-stand-gun-control] * [https://twitter.com/intent/tweet/?url=https%3A//new.portside.org/2017-12-15/sheryl-crow-criticizes-country-stars-not-taking-stand-gun-control&text=Sheryl%20Crow%20Criticizes%20Country%20Stars%20for%20Not%20%27Taking%20a%20Stand%27%20on%20Gun%20Control] KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR: 'TRUMP IS WHERE HE IS BECAUSE OF HIS APPEAL TO RACISM' [https://new.portside.org/2017-12-15/kareem-abdul-jabbar-trump-where-he-because-his-appeal-racism] [https://new.portside.org/2017-12-15/kareem-abdul-jabbar-trump-where-he-because-his-appeal-racism] DONALD MCRAE December 8, 2017 _ The Guardian _ The basketball legend and social activist who counted Ali and King among his contemporaries discusses Colin Kaepernick, LaVar Ball and Trump’s America. * * [https://plus.google.com/share?url=https%3A//new.portside.org/2017-12-15/kareem-abdul-jabbar-trump-where-he-because-his-appeal-racism] * [https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//new.portside.org/2017-12-15/kareem-abdul-jabbar-trump-where-he-because-his-appeal-racism] * [https://twitter.com/intent/tweet/?url=https%3A//new.portside.org/2017-12-15/kareem-abdul-jabbar-trump-where-he-because-his-appeal-racism&text=Kareem%20Abdul-Jabbar%3A%20%27Trump%20is%20Where%20He%20is%20Because%20of%20His%20Appeal%20to%20Racism%27] ASIA’S OTHER NUCLEAR STANDOFF [https://new.portside.org/2017-12-14/asias-other-nuclear-standoff] [https://new.portside.org/2017-12-14/asias-other-nuclear-standoff] CONN HALLINAN December 5, 2017 _ Foreign Policy in Focus _ By roping India and Japan into its standoff with China, the U.S. is raising the nuclear stakes in Asia — including, dangerously, between India and Pakistan. With the world focused on the scary possibility of war on the Korean Peninsula, not many people paid much attention to a series of naval exercises this past July in the Malacca Strait, a 550-mile long passage between Sumatra and Malaysia through which pass over 50,000 ships a year. * * [https://plus.google.com/share?url=https%3A//new.portside.org/2017-12-14/asias-other-nuclear-standoff] * [https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//new.portside.org/2017-12-14/asias-other-nuclear-standoff] * [https://twitter.com/intent/tweet/?url=https%3A//new.portside.org/2017-12-14/asias-other-nuclear-standoff&text=Asia%E2%80%99s%20Other%20Nuclear%20Standoff] TIDBITS - DECEMBER 14, 2017 - READER COMMENTS: ALABAMA BLACK VOTERS KEY; GOP TAX BILL; JERUSALEM; JEREMY CORBYN; RED CROSS; GENOCIDE AND HITLER; NOBEL PEACE PRIZE AWARD; WHY CONTRIBUTE TO PORTSIDE; ANNOUNCEMENTS; AND MORE.... [https://new.portside.org/2017-12-14/tidbits-december-14-2017-reader-comments-alabama-black-voters-key-gop-tax-bill-jerusalem] [https://new.portside.org/2017-12-14/tidbits-december-14-2017-reader-comments-alabama-black-voters-key-gop-tax-bill-jerusalem] December 14, 2017 _ Portside _ Reader Comments: Alabama Grassroots and Black Voters key to Defeating Trumpite Racist Sex Offender; GOP Tax Bill is Class War Against the People; Jerusalem; Jeremy Corbyn; Holiday contributions to charity other than Red Cross; Genocide and Hitler; Nobel Peace Prize Award; Why contribute to Portside; Resources; Announcements: Los Angeles, New York, Washington, DC, Houston; and more.... * * [https://plus.google.com/share?url=https%3A//new.portside.org/2017-12-14/tidbits-december-14-2017-reader-comments-alabama-black-voters-key-gop-tax-bill-jerusalem] * [https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//new.portside.org/2017-12-14/tidbits-december-14-2017-reader-comments-alabama-black-voters-key-gop-tax-bill-jerusalem] * [https://twitter.com/intent/tweet/?url=https%3A//new.portside.org/2017-12-14/tidbits-december-14-2017-reader-comments-alabama-black-voters-key-gop-tax-bill-jerusalem&text=Tidbits%20-%20December%2014%2C%202017%20-%20Reader%20Comments%3A%20Alabama%20Black%20Voters%20Key%3B%20GOP%20Tax%20Bill%3B%20Jerusalem%3B%20Jeremy%20Corbyn%3B%20Red%20Cross%3B%20Genocide%20and%20Hitler%3B%20Nobel%20Peace%20Prize%20Award%3B%20Why%20contribute%20to%20Portside%3B%20Announcements%3B%20and%20more....] SAGGIO DA SAN FREDIANO # 8 – LOST IN TRANSLATION – STRIKE AT AMAZON IN ITALIA [https://new.portside.org/2017-12-14/saggio-da-san-frediano-8-lost-translation-strike-amazon-italia] [https://new.portside.org/2017-12-14/saggio-da-san-frediano-8-lost-translation-strike-amazon-italia] PETER OLNEY December 10, 2017 _ Stansbury Forum _ Amazon has become a symbol of the new economy in Italy and the unions are determined to make these new workplaces, union fortresses. While Italian labor law has many advantages compared to our own, patient worker based organizing remains the fundamental building block of organizing. * * [https://plus.google.com/share?url=https%3A//new.portside.org/2017-12-14/saggio-da-san-frediano-8-lost-translation-strike-amazon-italia] * [https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//new.portside.org/2017-12-14/saggio-da-san-frediano-8-lost-translation-strike-amazon-italia] * [https://twitter.com/intent/tweet/?url=https%3A//new.portside.org/2017-12-14/saggio-da-san-frediano-8-lost-translation-strike-amazon-italia&text=Saggio%20da%20San%20Frediano%20%23%208%20%E2%80%93%20Lost%20in%20Translation%20%E2%80%93%20Strike%20at%20Amazon%20in%20Italia] WAS AARON BURR THE EMBRYO CAESAR? [https://new.portside.org/2017-12-14/was-aaron-burr-embryo-caesar] [https://new.portside.org/2017-12-14/was-aaron-burr-embryo-caesar] ERIC FONER December 14, 2017 _ London Review of Books _ Little is known about the veracity of the so-called Burr Conspiracy, the alleged effort by Aaron Burr to split off the western territories to form a separate nation in the early 1800s. People, the books author writes, clung to familiar stories; they ‘embraced different certainties’ regardless of new information and revelations. Burr was judged on what was viscerally believed in a politically divided United States, whose easy acceptance of felt truths resembles our own. * * [https://plus.google.com/share?url=https%3A//new.portside.org/2017-12-14/was-aaron-burr-embryo-caesar] * [https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//new.portside.org/2017-12-14/was-aaron-burr-embryo-caesar] * [https://twitter.com/intent/tweet/?url=https%3A//new.portside.org/2017-12-14/was-aaron-burr-embryo-caesar&text=Was%20Aaron%20Burr%20the%20Embryo%20Caesar%3F] INTERPRET THE WORLD AND CHANGE IT Submit via web [https://new.portside.org/contact/submit_to_portside] Submit via email Frequently asked questions [https://new.portside.org/faq] Manage subscription [https://new.portside.org/subscribe] Visit portside.org [https://new.portside.org/] Twitter [https://twitter.com/portsideorg] Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/Portside.PortsideLabor] ######################################################################## To unsubscribe, click the following link: &*TICKET_URL(portsidetest,SIGNOFF);