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The Outsider Among Us

January 8, 2024 Patrick Lawrence, Consortium News. Educate! History, John Pilger, Journalism, Media

In the spring of 1983, the late and greatly missed John Pilger began broadcasting a series of interviews called The Outsiders on British television. His subjects ranged widely. Costa–Gavras, Jessica Mitford, Seán MacBride, the Irish political figure and 1974 Nobelist Helen Suzman, the South African anti-apartheid activist. Pilger chose “people who have lived their lives outside the system,” as the Channel 4 tagline put it. My personal favorites among John’s interviewees, the ones who mean the most to me, were Wilfred Burchett and Martha Gellhorn, two of the 20th century’s most exceptional foreign correspondents.

Talking Socialism On The Job

January 7, 2024 Garrett Brown, Against the Current. Strategize! History, Labor Movement, Socialism, Worker Rights and Jobs

With a new generation of socialist activists entering the workforce to build unions and the socialist movement, experiences from 45 years ago may provide lessons about what works and what does not work when talking socialism on the job. I joined the Young Socialist Alliance in 1971 and the Socialist Workers Party in 1973, resigning from the party in December 1983. I was a student activist in California, Massachusetts, and Illinois, before becoming the labor reporter for The Daily Calumet newspaper in southeast Chicago in 1976. While a journalist at The Daily Calumet I covered the United Steel Workers of America (USWA) and Ed Sadlowski’s campaign for union president in 1976-77.

Israel Cannot Be A Colonial Power And A Democracy

January 6, 2024 Chris Hedges, The Real News Network. Resistance Report Colonialism, Democracy, Gaza, Genocide, History, Israel, Palestine

Israel’s status as a bona fide democracy is often taken to be a self-evident truth, but a more critical look at the history and reality of Zionism calls this into question. After all, how can a democracy exist in a country constitutionally defined as an ethnostate that can only exist through the suppression and gradual elimination of its Others? Israeli historian Ilan Pappé joins The Chris Hedges Report for a discussion on Israel as an inherently colonial, and therefore anti-democratic, project. Ilan Pappé is a professor with the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Exeter in the UK, where he directs the European Centre for Palestine Studies, and co-directs the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies.

70 Years After Brown Vs. Board Of Ed, Public Schools Still Deeply Segregated

January 6, 2024 Erica Frankenberg, Scheer Post. Educate! Black America, Brown v. Board of Education, Education, History, Public schools, Segregation

Brown vs. Board of Education, the pivotal Supreme Court decision that made school segregation unconstitutional, turns 70 years old on May 17, 2024. At the time of the 1954 ruling, 17 U.S. states had laws permitting or requiring racially segregated schools. The Brown decision declared that segregation in public schools was “inherently unequal.” This was, in part, because the court argued that access to equitable, nonsegregated education played a critical role in creating informed citizens – a paramount concern for the political establishment amid the Cold War. With Brown, the justices overturned decades of legal precedent that kept Black Americans in separate and unequal schools.

Israel’s Genocide Betrays The Holocaust

January 1, 2024 Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. Educate! Genocide, History, Holocaust, Israel, Palestine, Wars and Militarism, World War II

Israel’s lebensraum master plan for Gaza, borrowed from the Nazi’s depopulation of Jewish ghettos, is clear. Destroy infrastructure, medical facilities and sanitation, including access to clean water. Block shipments of food and fuel. Unleash indiscriminate industrial violence to kill and wound hundreds a day. Let starvation — the U.N. estimates that more than half a million people are already starving — and epidemics of infectious diseases, along with the daily massacres and the displacement of Palestinians from their homes, turn Gaza into a mortuary. The Palestinians are being forced to choose between death from bombs, disease, exposure or starvation or being driven from their homeland.

Crisis In The Democratic Republic Of Congo

December 30, 2023 Eugene Puryear, Liberation News. Educate! Africa, DR Congo, History, Imperialism, Internal Displacement, Poverty

Since 1996, at least 6 million people have been killed in successive conflicts in the eastern portion of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The same conflicts are largely responsible for the 6.9 million internally displaced people in the DRC today, one of the world’s largest populations of IDPs. Successive waves of violence have unfolded against a backdrop of a desperate struggle for the $24 trillion of mineral wealth embedded in Congolese soil. Despite immense wealth, nearly 60 million people — 64% of the country — live on less than $2.15 a day. One in six people living in extreme poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa are living in the DRC.

The Spark That Lit The Fire: The Untold Story Of The October 7 Attacks

December 29, 2023 Ramzy Baroud, MintPress News. Educate! Genocide, History, Israel, Occupation, Operation Al Aqsa Flood, Palestine, Wars and Militarism

The dramatic, earth-shattering events in Palestine starting on October 7 have taken many people by surprise. However, attentive observers were not among them. Few expected that Palestinian fighters would be parachuting into southern Israel on October 7; that instead of capturing a single Israeli soldier – as done in 2006 – hundreds of Israelis, including many soldiers and civilians, would find themselves captive in besieged Gaza. The reason behind the ‘surprise,’ however, is the same reason that Israel is still reeling under collective shock, which is the tendency to pay close attention to political discourses and intelligence analyses of Israel and its supporters – while largely neglecting the Palestinian discourse.

How Oil Money Turned Louisiana Into The Prison Capital Of The World

December 28, 2023 Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, Truthout. Educate! Big Oil, Capitalism, Criminal Justice and Prisons, History, Louisiana

On October 14, 2023, Louisiana elected far right candidate Jeff Landry to the governor’s mansion. As the state’s current attorney general, Landry (a former police officer and sheriff’s deputy) has made headlines for his creation of an anti-crime policing task force for New Orleans, suing the state to block clemency appeals by those on death row, and advocating to make public the criminal records of juveniles in predominately Black areas of the state. Landry’s dedication to “law and order” has been matched by his commitment to extractive industries. As a climate change denier, he has pushed for more aggressive off-shore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and sued the Environmental Protection Agency for overreach.

Charlie Chaplin’s Enduring Legacy

December 24, 2023 Chris Hedges, The Real News Network. Resistance Report Charlie Chaplin, Creative Action, Film, History, Politics

Few individuals did more to shape modern cinema than the actor, director, and producer Charlie Chaplin. One of the greatest of all comic mimes, he also pioneered cinematic techniques and storytelling. His films with his iconic role as the beleaguered Little Tramp with baggy trousers, mustache, cane, and bowler hat were not only comic masterpieces, but unflinching looks at poverty, unemployment, capitalism, exploitation, the callousness of authority, the search for meaning and dignity in a hostile world, and the yearning for love and acceptance. He argued that drama should be derived from the close observation of life. He refused to follow the conventions, including the penchant for exaggerated melodrama, perfecting his work with hundreds of takes, subtle acting, and nuanced facial expressions.

Here We Go Again

December 23, 2023 Brandon Soderberg and Andrew Friedman, The Real News Network. Educate! Accountability, Baltimore, Criminal Justice and Prisons, History, Police, Zero Tolerance

It was about to get dark. In the summer of 2003, Devin was 19 years old and living in West Baltimore with his mom and two brothers, just a few blocks away from the Western District Baltimore Police station. Every night around 9 or 10 p.m., Baltimore cops patrolled the area heavily. They drove in marked and unmarked cop cars searching for signs of disorder, ready to round up people for mass arrest. It was all part of a policing strategy introduced in the late ’90s called “zero tolerance.” “It always happened around sundown,” Devin told The Real News. “The police see you out with even just one or two people and they just looked at you and you knew they were gonna wild out.”

Kenya At 60: Field Notes From The Neocolony

December 20, 2023 Wairimu Gathimba, Black Agenda Report. Strategize! Africa, History, Kenya, Neocolonialism

Just four years after independence, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga published Not Yet Uhuru, a seminal political treatise of the new country. 60 years after independence, and 56 years after its publication, one might argue that nothing much has changed. As a nation, we find ourselves still grappling with the question of how Kenya became free with the greater portion of the arable land controlled by a handful of owners even as millions are squatters on their ancestral land.

How Did Zionism Collaborate With Hitler To Establish ‘Israel’?

December 14, 2023 Mohammad Ali Fakih, Orinoco Tribune. Educate! Adolf Hitler, Al-Aqsa, Germany, History, Israel, Nazism, Zionism

One of the more significant outcomes of the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation is that it has forced researchers in the history of the Zionist movement to confront the “phobia” of exposing historical facts that occurred during World War II, that would reveal their collaboration with Nazism. This movement, characterized by unethical tactics such as difficult-to-detect lies, exaggeration of facts, presenting opinion as truth, espousing contentious concepts as clear-cut, and fostering false connections and herd instinct, has long excelled in obfuscating the association between Zionism and Nazism. The Zionist propaganda machine has, for decades, adeptly portrayed Nazism and Zionism as having a completely adversarial relationship.

Give Climate Change The Name It Deserves: Fossil-Fueled Destruction

December 12, 2023 Mark Shapiro, DeSmog. Strategize! climate crisis, Environment, Fossil Fuels, History

There’s always a lag between a rupture of the status quo and settling on a word for it. The planet is heating at a life-threatening pace. And yet the two words we use to describe this rupture — “climate” and “change” — are beginning to seem too stiff and one-dimensional for conveying the violence to life-sustaining ecosystems that threaten the world as we have known it. As delegates from 196 countries attempt, for the 28th time, to reach a global agreement to reduce greenhouse gases, it is time for a new language. The violence of the atmospheric shifts, their deeply uneven impacts and the implications of mass extinctions that are expected at current emission levels, add up to much more than “climate change.”

December 10: Human Rights Day

December 11, 2023 Ana Hurtado, Resumen English. Educate! History, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine

On December 10, Human Rights are celebrated around the world. The pity is that not all peoples enjoy them. There are countries that set themselves up insincerely as defenders of them and yet they are the ones that violate them the most, inside and outside their borders. Let’s review history. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the UN for the first time in 1948, on December 10, in response to the barbarism that had been seen after World War II. In the document there are 30 rights that no one can take away from human beings, because we are born with them; because the fact of being human and living in societies legitimizes us to be respected and to respect others.

When Black And White Tenant Farmers Joined Together

December 9, 2023 David Griscom, The Real News Network. Organize! Farmers, History, Solidarity, The South, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

It’s 1935 and class war is brewing in Arkansas. Standing before 1,500 black and white sharecroppers, the radical Methodist minister Ward Rodgers thunders, “I can lead a mob to lynch any planter in Poinsett County.” The crowd erupts with applause. These white and black sharecroppers who worked, lived, and died amid the vestiges of the Southern plantation system were no strangers to terror. The night before, a group of planters and deputy sheriffs had attacked an adult education class taught by Rodgers. The landowner class, the banks, the police, and an offshoot of the Ku Klux Klan called the Nightriders had been engaged in a brutal crackdown on the workers of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union.

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