By Dmitri N. Shalin | April 5, 2021 (tikkun.org) Leffler, Warren K., photographer; cropped by Beyond My Ken (talk) 09:59, 25 November 2010 (UTC), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Bayard Rustin On October 22 of 1883, Frederick Douglass attended a civil rights meeting in Washington D.C. where he observed a disturbing pattern of… Continue reading
Few events that might be of interest…Am NOT back posting on a regular basis *** ASL interpretation – Let me know if your event needs this service .*** Please include Accessibility and ASL info in your events! And if your action is ‘child friendly’ Please post your actions on Indybay: https://www.indybay.org/calendar/?page_id=12 See Indybay for many… Continue reading
Bowdoin College In the aftermath of the January 6 attack on the Capitol, the College is presenting a series of discussions with leading experts on the current state and future prospects for American democracy. Timothy Snyder is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow… Continue reading
04/01/2021 (newsroom.wf.com) Company calls for Federal holiday to vote SAN FRANCISCO – Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) CEO Charlie Scharf today issued the following statement regarding voter rights: “Wells Fargo supports the right of every American to exercise their voice by voting. This is a key pillar of our democracy and we oppose legislation that attempts… Continue reading
After losing an ugly congressional race last year, Denver Riggleman is leading a charge against the conspiracy-mongering coursing through his party. He doesn’t have many allies. By Jeremy W. Peters April 3, 2021 (NYTimes.com) AFTON, Va. — Denver Riggleman stood virtually alone. It was Oct. 2, on the floor of the… Continue reading
BBC Subscribe and to OFFICIAL BBC YouTube https://bit.ly/2IXqEIn Stream original BBC programmes FIRST on BBC iPlayer https://bbc.in/2J18jYJ With a million species at risk of extinction, Sir David Attenborough explores how this crisis of biodiversity has consequences for us all, threatening food and water security, undermining our ability to control our climate and even putting… Continue reading
April 03, 2021 by Common Dreams Multiple police officers also testified for the prosecution, with one Minneapolis homicide lieutenant calling Chauvin’s use of deadly force “totally unncessary.” by Brett Wilkins, staff writer (commondreams.org) 31 Comments Minneapolis fire fighter Genevieve Hansen, who was off duty when she witnessed and recorded the… Continue reading
APRIL 2, 2021 (counterpunch.org) BY ROB URIE Photograph Source: Azureon2 – CC BY 2.0 The ascendance of Wall Street, and of a managerial bureaucracy (PMC) more generally, largely explains the political realignments that have been playing out in the U.S. Beginning in the 1970s, the American political class made decisions at the… Continue reading
By Lawrence Weschler August 14, 2019 (theparisreview.org) THOM GUNN, LEFT, IN 1960 AT HAMPSTEAD-WHITE STONE POND. OLIVER SACKS, RIGHT, WITH HIS BELOVED BMW MOTORBIKE AT MUSCLE BEACH. COURTESY OF THE OLIVER SACKS FOUNDATION. PHOTO TAKEN FROM SACKS’S MEMOIR ON THE MOVE. Back in the early eighties, when I first met up with the… Continue reading
