Wednesday, April 17, 2024

The rise of private cops: How not to tackle homelessness

Like many cities with a serious housing problem, Portland is increasingly relying on private security to “clean up” the human debris of capitalism.

Writing as Resistance

Doomed writers buried their accounts of the Warsaw ghetto in the hope that they could teach whoever unearthed the documents about good, evil, indifference and the importance of the truth as an act of resistance. They have left us a trove of papers on how to construct a life of meaning.
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Judge denies bail to alleged NSA leaker Reality Winner, citing her admiration for Snowden...

Federal Judge Brian Epps of Augusta, Georgia, said his decision to deny bail was based in part on comments by Winner that she “admires Edward Snowden and Julian Assange.”

Monsanto faces hundreds of new cancer lawsuits as debate over glyphosate rages on

The biotech giant refutes the classification and insists that glyphosate is safe and does not cause cancer.

Homeless man files lawsuit after wrongfully arrested for using counterfeit $10 bill at Burger...

“A person like me would've gotten an apology, but a person like Emory somehow finds his way in handcuffs for trying to pay for his breakfast with real money.”

Labor education starts in school

Giving K-12 students the language, information, and tools they need to protect themselves from workplace exploitation is a critical tool to reversing the nation’s capitalism-fueled inequality.

Jail The Bankers And Take Back Control Over Money

If the economic proposals described in this episode of Clearing the FOG were put into effect, Wall Street would be tamed and the people would regain control of the economy.

Create New Transition Programs for Veterans Returning Home

Help us tell the Department of Veteran Affairs that we care about our Veterans and that this suicide rate is unacceptable.
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Federal judge blocks Trump’s ‘asylum ban,’ saying President can’t rewrite immigration laws

A federal judge in California has temporarily halted Trump’s asylum ban, which attempted to deny asylum to anyone entering the country from outside of a legal port of entry.
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“America’s moment of reckoning”: Cornel West says nationwide uprising is sign of “empire imploding”

“There is a connection between the seeds that you sow of violence externally and internally.”