DemocracyNow.org: We end the show today in Jackson, Mississippi, where just one week from today social justice activist and attorney Chokwe Lumumba will be sworn is as the city’s next mayor. He has vowed to make Jackson the “most radical city on the planet.” He is the son of the… Continue reading
Photo: Museum Of Capitalism. Dread Scott’s “Poll Dance” (2010) is on exhibit at the new Museum of Capitalism in Oakland’s Jack London Square. You may not have heard, so under the radar have things been thus far, but the Bay Area got its newest museum this week. Situated in Oakland’s… Continue reading
Bernie Sanders Pleas for California Assembly Speaker to Reconsider SB 562 by Andre Roberge June 25, 2017 (progressivearmy.com) Photo Credit: @rendon63rd – Twitter In a press release from Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, President and CEO Crystal Strait expressed support for California’s Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon’s shelving of California’s single-payerSB-562 bill… Continue reading
Jimmy Dore on Twitter ▶ https://twitter.com/Jimmy_Dore Stef Zamorano on Twitter ▶ https://twitter.com/miserablelib Graham Elwood on Twitter ▶ https://twitter.com/grahamelwood Edited by Arno Bolbolian ABOUT THE JIMMY DORE SHOW: The Jimmy Dore Show is a hilarious and irreverent take on news, politics and culture featuring Jimmy Dore, a professional stand up comedian,… Continue reading
June 23, 2017 (occupy.com) In what is being called the “biggest protest crackdown since the Civil Rights Era,” Republicans in at least 20 states have put forward or passed laws with the intention of making protest more difficult and the punishment for expressing dissent more draconian since President Donald Trump’s inauguration in… Continue reading
Slick manipulation of the agenda had already led to outrage. That was a month earlier, when 150 people had come to City Council to drag the city free of federal policing projects. The Mayor promised a ‘Special Meeting” dedicated to the issue, scheduled for June 20. Five hundred people showed… Continue reading
Yanis Varoufakis is a Greek economist, academic and politician, who served as the Greek Minister of Finance from January to July 2015, when he resigned. Date: 15/06/2017 Russell Brand discusses with Yanis what happens when you take on the political, financial and media elite, and how radical reform can occur…. Continue reading
Wednesday, June 21, 2017 (ebcitizen.com) OAKLAND CITY COUNCIL During the Oakland City Council committee stage, at least one Oakland councilmember consistently urged stakeholders in the city’s cannabis business community to fund a proposed $100,000 public bank feasibility study rather than using the depleted general fund. Councilmember Noel Gallo‘s idea was… Continue reading
