Shakespeare’s Henry V had Warmongering Pundits Just Like USA Presidents Do Today! https://bit.ly/3aiXDBl #propaganda #militaryindustrialcomplex
Urge #Georgia officials to enact legislation to help elections reflect citizens' views #gapol #rankedchoicevoting #felonenfranchisment #VotingRightsAct https://bit.ly/2qUDNYC
#Farmworkers have families. They have hopes for themselves and their children. They smile. &, whatever some know-nothing politicians says, they have skills! #WeFeedYou #Labor https://bit.ly/33HG6QR
"These walls, these borders, between the peoples of the earth: they are of recent vintage, and they are flimsy." Suketu Mehta turns sorrow & anger into an important, easily read manifesto for just #immigration policies https://bit.ly/3csjoAB
Some favorite passages form Aldo Leopold's "A Sand County Almanac" https://bit.ly/42CzGR6 #ecology #sustainability #environmentalethic #conservation #USA #history
Taking Liberties: Why Religious Freedom Doesn't Give You the Right to Tell Other People What to Do by @robboston1 http://bit.ly/29wrjhk
70 years after "Experience & #Education," have we implemented John Dewey's suggestions? https://bit.ly/45mhRa3 #democracy #teaching
“Falling Off the Corporate Ladder”: Music Which Explains Why You Can’t Tolerate the Whole Boss Thing https://bit.ly/2GkYdTl
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“Falling Off the Corporate Ladder”: Music Which Explains Why You Can’t Tolerate the Whole Boss Thing
I sometimes wonder why I just can’t get that excited about corporate life. So I compiled a list of YouTube videos I entitled “Falling Off the Corporate Ladder.” If you think of ot…
A throwaway line at the end of an otherwise unmemorable #BTVS episode appears in an entirely new light 18 yrs into the War on Terror #IndefiniteDetention #GITMO #Guantanamo #BlackSites https://bit.ly/39aqXcV
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BTVS “A New Man,” S4E12 Anticipated GITMO
Ethan Rayne, played by Robin Sachs (d. 2013), was a recurring human villain in Buffy the Vampire Slayer in Seasons 2-4. In his final appearance in A New Man (S4E12, January 2000), when Buffy captur…
If pop culture indoctrinated you like it did me, Maia Szalavitz's "Unbroken Brain" will show that almost everything you think about #addiction is incorrect. https://bit.ly/334IBhA #education #psychology #publichealth #incarceration #decriminalization #stigma #harmreduction #opioids
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Recommendation: "Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction" by Maia Szalavitz
I first heard of Maia Szalavitz from the Citations Needed Podcast episode 99, The Cruel, Voyeuristic Quackery of Rehab TV Shows . Her book...
I got @JerryCraft's "New Kid," preparing to read a story of armed insurrection à la Nat Turner. Parents wouldn't mobilize against a book which didn't at least feature a few murders of police officers & riots which targeted some chain stores, right? https://bit.ly/3mcmwag
Did a racist ad help Brian Kemp win #GOP nomination for governor of #Georgia in 2022? Maybe. Will it result in more assaults on Asian-Americans? Very likely. Does it contribute to the cesspool of ideas which led to the Atlanta Spa Shootings? No doubt. https://bit.ly/3warqJM
Law & Order: SVU -S15E17- More Anti-Muslim Tropes & Support of #Police Misconduct http://bit.ly/29HiIs7 #Islamophobia #TV
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Law & Order: SVU - S15E17 - More Anti-Muslim Tropes & Support of Police Misconduct
Most people will remember Law & Order: Special Victims Unit S15E17 Criminal Stories because Alec Baldwin is the guest star. As always in t...
Review: #MalcolmX: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable http://bit.ly/2aa1bJW #Activism #Racism #USA #History
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Review: Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable
I listened to the reading of Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable, who passed away at almost the same time the book was pub...
Progressives reforming Democratic Party should advocate for election measures which permit 3rd parties to compete https://bit.ly/47LZ6hJ
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While You Are Reforming the Democratic Party, Advocate for Ballot Access & Ranked Choice Voting
Updated July 18, 2017. Ask your representatives to support the Fair Representation Act (HR 3057). This ugly example of the Democratic Party establishment genuflecting before health insurance compan…
Letter to NPR Ombudsman Calling Out Pro-Zionist Bias in Report on Israel Army Killing of Palestinians on Land Day #Gaza #GreatReturnMarch https://bit.ly/2H7EV1N
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Letter to @NPR Ombudsman @EJensenNYC Calling Out Pro-Zionist Bias in Report on Israel Army Killing of Palestinians on Land Day
The idea of the Great Return March as a campaign to begin on Land Day and end on Nakba Day did originate in Palestinian civil society. If Hamas and other political groups latched onto it or support…
"Farm Monitor" on #Georgia Public Broadcasting addresses topics like pesticides, conditions of animals in industrial #agriculture & human-caused #climatechange without properly presenting potential harms https://bit.ly/2UJOECS
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Georgia Public Broadcasting’s Show “Farm Monitor” Promotes Big Pharma Ag & Erases POC Workers
I am as far removed from agricultural production as one can be. Due to my recent appreciation of the centrality of agriculture to our life, I began watching Georgia Public Broadcasting’s Farm…
The counterinsurgency's main purpose was 2 deny a political identity to Algerians, & torture, which represents greatest level of control of 1 human being over another, allowed French quickest, most efficacious justification of French control of Algeria. https://bit.ly/3cAGFk4
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Review: Torture and the Twilight of Empire: From Algiers to Baghdad by Marnia Lazreg
Torture and the Twilight of Empire: From Algiers to Baghdad , by Marnia Lazreg, is an eloquent plea to end torture. Professor Marnia pursue...