Status Coup #StatusCoup Status Coup’s Jordan Chariton reports on nearly 500 delegates of Bernie Sanders to the DNC convention pledging to vote against the Democratic Party platform at the DNC convention. SUPPORT Status Coup’s INDEPENDENT IN-THE-FIELD reporting for as $5 bucks a month: https://statuscoup.com/join/ SUBSCRIBE to this channel for progressive… Continue reading
Protest was held in Los Angeles on Saturday July 25, 2020 in support if demonstrators in Portland. (Ringo Chiu/Shutterstock) TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE Jul. 26, 2020 9:30 a.m. (SFExaminer.com) NATION & WORLD NEWS The mood in downtown Portland, Ore., late Saturday evening was lively and protesters appeared rejuvenated as several thousand… Continue reading
Conservative members (and some in the progressive camp) serve as swing votes in D7 and D11. BY TIM REDMOND -JULY 23, 2020 (48hills.org) The San Francisco Democratic Party endorsed candidates backed by the progressive wing in five of the six seats last night, with the D7 and D11 endorsements a bit unusual…. Continue reading
Christo Aivalis Earlier today, Politico reported that 360 Bernie Sanders delegates to the Democratic National Convention were promising to vote against the Democratic Party Platform if it did not include Medicare for All. This made corporate Democrats freak out, but the move is perfectly reasonable. Not only did they say… Continue reading
The Hidden Injuries of Class by Richard Sennett, Jonathan Cobb In this intrepid, groundbreaking book, Richard Sennett and Jonathan Cobb uncover and define a new form of class conflict in America—an internal conflict in the heart and mind of the white blue-collar worker who measures his own value against those lives and… Continue reading
Katie Halper Marianne Williamson (https://twitter.com/marwilliamson) talks about politics and revolution, materialism and spirituality. Christian Parenti discusses his latest piece “The Surprising Geography of Police Killings” (https://nonsite.org/symposium/the-sur…) published at NonSite and the life and work of his dear friend journalist Robert Eshelman-Håkansson, whose obituary Christian wrote for Jacobin (https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/07/ro…). https://www.thenation.com/authors/rob…https://robertseshelman.com
Protesters are being snatched from the streets without warrants. Can we call it fascism yet? By Michelle Goldberg Opinion Columnist July 20, 2020 (NYTimes.com) Leer en español The month after Donald Trump’s inauguration, the Yale historian Timothy Snyder published the best-selling book “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century.” It… Continue reading
