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Southern Voter Suppression Bills New Southern voter suppression bills face challenges in state and federal court Georgia’s Voting Laws Will Not Silence Us You read that correctly. The new law grants the Republican majority the authority to change the rules mid-election, deciding where, how, when, or if my vote will count. Chile is Reborn What happened on May 15-16 in Chile has the air of the refounding of an entire nation. It means the end of traditional party politics and the establishment of collectives focused on the environment, gender equality, on local issues and other sectors. What’s Going On at 50 The unresolved, discordant elements make this album truly timeless – that, and the fact that too few of its concerns have been addressed since 1971. A Sound Supreme John Coltrane learned his trade with Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk - and eventually outshone them all. John Fordham celebrates the great saxophonist. Friday Nite Videos | May 21, 2021 Stand Your Ground | John Oliver. All Along the Watchtower: A Pandemic Ballad. The Real Reason Workers Aren’t Running Back to Restaurant Jobs. Palestinian Artist Taqi Spateen Painting George Floyd. The Undying Hydra: A Freshwater Monster. BLM, Palestinian Resistance, and the Ties That Bind The symbiosis between African Americans and Palestinians grows as both groups face human rights crises. Statement on the Nikole Hannah Jones Tenure Decision The extraordinary decision of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors to deny tenure to one of the most recognized journalists of her generation has a chilling effect on untenured junior scholars and is an attack on freedom of the press Lula s Plan to End the Reign of ‘Psychopath’ Bolsonaro Brazil’s leftist former leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva leaves no doubt he is planning a finale to a dramatic political career Ancient Poop Reveals the Extinction Event Inside Us A new first-of-its-kind study of DNA recovered from preserved human feces suggests that over the past thousand years the human gut has experienced an “extinction event,” losing dozens of species and becoming significantly less diverse. Read more Costa Rica poet Simmons protests the legacy of “colonization” that confuses crime and justice. Activist Derecka Purnell interviews historian Elizabeth Hinton about her new book, ‘America on Fire,’ and how the label “riot” discredits Black political demands. May 19 is the birthday of Ho Chi Minh, the revolutionary that led the Vietnamese people through victorious war and revolution from the 1920s to his death in 1969. This 20-year old review is of the best biography of Ho available in English. In 1978 body snatchers really did dig up and try to ransom the corpse of the legendary actor Charlie Chaplin shortly after his death. Stealing Chaplin uses this fact-based bit of skullduggery as a mere launching pad for its fact-free comedy. When “sustainability” includes social justice, most US chicken gets a failing grade. Amazon’s adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s novel turns a masterpiece into amazing television. Hilary Cruz Mejia, a young Latinx poet from Guatemala, protests the genocidal history of her homeland, while seeking to preserve its indigenous roots. “It’s about creating a distraction and a real carve-out from the PRO Act,” said Bhairavi Desai, director of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance. The labor movement will not survive at all, let alone build power, without a serious racial analysis and making racial justice key to their core mission. Doctors, bank clerks, builders and teachers abandon work to join demonstrations. “This is the start of a new era, one united aim for all Palestinians, wherever they may reside. Our demand is that we want to live freely and in peace. Factory workers at a Volvo truck plant in southwest Virginia voted by 91 percent Sunday not to ratify a concession-filled contract negotiated by local and International Auto Workers (UAW) officials. A plan of a committee convened by the AFL-CIO, Teamsters and Service Employees International Union aims to encourage police union members to speak up and take action if fellow members are violating their professional oath or abusing their power. Kandist Mallett argues, Our pre-pandemic lives are not sustainable. They weren’t good for our health or this planet. Let’s evolve past capitalism, past working our lives away, past destroying the planet for profit’s sake. Unionizing animators at Floyd County Productions say the company has failed on multiple accounts to live up to its progressive values.John Oliver takes a look at why “stand your ground” laws were created, who they protect, and, crucially, who they don’t.Jay Howie performs All Along The Watchtower by Bob Dylan, based on the Jimi Hendrix versionRestaurants struggle to re-staff post-pandemic, and while Republican pundits posit that more generous unemployment benefits are to blame, workers are taking a stand and demanding jobs that provide more than just enough pay – or often not enough pay – to make ends meet. #DailyShow #TrevorNoah #LivingWagesPalestinian artist Taqi Spateen paints a mural of George Floyd on the Seperation Wall in Bethlehem, June 2020. “The most important thing is that the people know this mural is a gift from Palestine,” says Spateen. “That’s all that matters.”Could this tiny creature, named after a mythical multiheaded monster, hold the secret to eternal youth? Related to jellyfish and anemones, the hydra has an almost otherworldly ability to heal itself and stave off aging.Jordan Klepper travels to Phoenix, AZ, where GOP state senators kicked off a hyper-partisan audit of the results of the 2020 election under the pretense of preserving election integrity.I've synchronized the William Tell Overture (by Rossini) to 8 Line Riders racing down the track for victory. All lines were drawn by hand.

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