Thursday, November 28, 2024

The part about MLK white people don’t like to talk about

"Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.”

Harvey Weinstein admits to sexually assaulting model in leaked NYPD audio

Filipina-Italian model Ambra Battilana Gutierrez wore a wire to capture evidence that Weinstein made unwanted sexual advances.

The most enduring media cover up

Alison Weir, journalist and founder of If Americans Knew is a very clear thinker on the issue of Palestine-Israel and provides the data and language we need to speak to a propagandized population.

Coming to terms with the abortion conflict and other matters

The point here is that we can and should discuss issues such as these openly and respectfully.

Progressive Briefing for Friday, July 27, 2018

What you need to know about the Democratic Socialists of America, as Trump Administration misses family reunification deadline, children protest "horrific" immigration policy, and more.

Education and the mental health epidemic

Systems of education built around the ideals of the market that use competition, selection and examinations are contributing to a collective atmosphere of division, injustice and anxiety.

How grassroots activists made peace with North Korea possible

The leaders of North and South Korea are meeting in Pyongyang this week to discuss the possibility of a peace treaty to end the decades-long conflict dividing the Korean Peninsula.
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Chomsky: Arrest of Assange is ‘scandalous’ and highlights shocking extraterritorial reach of US

"Why is it acceptable for the United States to have the power to even begin to give even a proposal to extradite somebody whose crime is to expose to the public materials that people in power don’t want them to see?"

Maitreya: “Share and Save the World”

Amidst deepening global divisions and intolerance ‘Project Maitreya’ plan to build 1,000 statues of Maitreya Buddha around the world, with the aim,...
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Caged children and terrified infants: Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee describes ‘acts of indecency’ at...

"So what I saw was a crisis continuing. Not in the making – a crisis continuing."