[https://new.portside.org/] Material of Interest to People on the Left PORTSIDE SNAPSHOT - DECEMBER 13, 2017 MEDIA BITS AND BYTES – ZERO HOUR EDITION [https://new.portside.org/2017-12-12/media-bits-and-bytes-zero-hour-edition] [https://new.portside.org/2017-12-12/media-bits-and-bytes-zero-hour-edition] December 12, 2017 _ Portside _ Net Neut fight grows more dire; SNAFU USA; The Seder caper; Internet amidst the Big Melt; Bitcoin bamboozle; The Booker story * [https://plus.google.com/share?url=https%3A//new.portside.org/2017-12-12/media-bits-and-bytes-zero-hour-edition] * [https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//new.portside.org/2017-12-12/media-bits-and-bytes-zero-hour-edition] * [https://twitter.com/intent/tweet/?url=https%3A//new.portside.org/2017-12-12/media-bits-and-bytes-zero-hour-edition&text=Media%20Bits%20and%20Bytes%20%E2%80%93%20Zero%20Hour%20Edition] PORTSIDE ANNUAL FUND APPEAL - INFORMATION IS POWER [https://new.portside.org/2017-12-12/portside-annual-fund-appeal-information-power] [https://new.portside.org/2017-12-12/portside-annual-fund-appeal-information-power] December 12, 2017 _ Portside _ Information is power. Our mission at Portside is to seek out and to provide information that empowers you -- that empowers the left. Every day we search hundreds of sources to connect you with the most interesting, striking and useful material. * [https://plus.google.com/share?url=https%3A//new.portside.org/2017-12-12/portside-annual-fund-appeal-information-power] * [https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//new.portside.org/2017-12-12/portside-annual-fund-appeal-information-power] * [https://twitter.com/intent/tweet/?url=https%3A//new.portside.org/2017-12-12/portside-annual-fund-appeal-information-power&text=Portside%20Annual%20Fund%20Appeal%20-%20Information%20is%20Power] SHIFT CHANGE: HOW NEW ORLEANS HOSPITALITY WORKERS ARE ORGANIZING THEIR INDUSTRY [https://new.portside.org/2017-12-12/shift-change-how-new-orleans-hospitality-workers-are-organizing-their-industry] [https://new.portside.org/2017-12-12/shift-change-how-new-orleans-hospitality-workers-are-organizing-their-industry] KAT STROMQUIST December 11, 2017 _ Gambit _ In an echo of national workers rights movements such as Fight for $15 and OUR Walmart, New Orleans hospitality workers are coming together in an attempt to rearrange the building blocks of their industry. Both on their own and with the support of a union, workers are becoming their own advocates, in an effort to — as Marlene Patrick-Cooper, the local organizing director for the UNITE HERE union, often says — "turn poverty jobs into middle-class jobs." * [https://plus.google.com/share?url=https%3A//new.portside.org/2017-12-12/shift-change-how-new-orleans-hospitality-workers-are-organizing-their-industry] * [https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//new.portside.org/2017-12-12/shift-change-how-new-orleans-hospitality-workers-are-organizing-their-industry] * [https://twitter.com/intent/tweet/?url=https%3A//new.portside.org/2017-12-12/shift-change-how-new-orleans-hospitality-workers-are-organizing-their-industry&text=Shift%20Change%3A%20How%20New%20Orleans%20Hospitality%20Workers%20are%20Organizing%20Their%20Industry%20] SANTA BARBARA FILM FESTIVAL TO OPEN WITH EMILIO ESTEVEZ’S ‘THE PUBLIC’ [https://new.portside.org/2017-12-12/santa-barbara-film-festival-open-emilio-estevezs-public] [https://new.portside.org/2017-12-12/santa-barbara-film-festival-open-emilio-estevezs-public] BRUCE HARING December 6, 2017 _ Deadline Hollywood _ The Public follows a group of homeless library patrons, who, after learning that emergency shelters are at capacity during a brutal Midwestern cold front, refuse to leave Cincinnati’s downtown public library at closing. What begins as a nonviolent Occupy sit-in and ragtag act of civil disobedience quickly escalates into a stand-off with local riot police, a no-nonsense crisis negotiator, and a savvy DA with lofty political ambitions. * [https://plus.google.com/share?url=https%3A//new.portside.org/2017-12-12/santa-barbara-film-festival-open-emilio-estevezs-public] * [https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//new.portside.org/2017-12-12/santa-barbara-film-festival-open-emilio-estevezs-public] * [https://twitter.com/intent/tweet/?url=https%3A//new.portside.org/2017-12-12/santa-barbara-film-festival-open-emilio-estevezs-public&text=Santa%20Barbara%20Film%20Festival%20To%20Open%20With%20Emilio%20Estevez%E2%80%99s%20%E2%80%98The%20Public%E2%80%99] 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: https://lists.portside.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=PORTSIDETEST
