From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Engraving of the Four Freedoms at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, D.C. The Four Freedoms were goals articulated by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt on Monday, January 6, 1941. In an address known as the Four Freedoms speech (technically the 1941 State of the Union address), he proposed four fundamental freedoms that people… Continue reading
Activists protest financial institutions’ greenwashing outside JPMorgan Chase’s headquarters in New York City on August 13, 2021. (Photo: Extinction Rebellion NYC/Twitter) “Banks are continuing to fund massive new oil pipelines like Line 3 that would lock in vast amounts of climate pollution for decades. Even worse, they are disguising their loans… Continue reading
TECTU Solar Energy Thanks for watching. Support the revolution, share. Director Chris Paine takes his film crew behind the closed doors of Nissan, GM, and the Silicon Valley start-up Tesla Motors to chronicle the story of the global resurgence of electric cars. IMDb link: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1413496 Tim Robbins … Self –… Continue reading
FRI, 8/13/2021 (occupy.com) This is the twelfth installment in a series about extending the Green New Deal to confront multiple global crises. Read Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI, Part VII, Part VIII, Part IX, Part X, and Part XI. California’s first nations applied wild land horticulturalism to increase food and other production through pruning, seed… Continue reading
August 13, 2021 As you may have seen on the news this week, the first recall against SF DA Chesa Boudin did NOT receive enough signatures to make it on the ballot.However, we’re not done. There is another recall against Boudin and this one is VERY likely to get on… Continue reading
Megan Cassidy Aug. 10, 2021 (SFChronicle.com) One of two dueling efforts to oust San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin has failed, falling short of collecting the required 51,325 signatures to qualify for a special recall election, city elections officials said Wednesday. But a second, more well-heeled recall campaign still looms… Continue reading
Time Periods: World War I: 1910 – 1919Themes: Labor, Organizing (zinnedproject.org) Howard Zinn first learned of the Ludlow Massacre from a song by Woody Guthrie, which Zinn says, “nobody had ever mentioned in any of my history courses.” To help future generations of students learn about Ludlow, here are Zinn’s description of the history… Continue reading
By Stephen M. Feldman | August 12, 2021 tikkun.org) Temple University Press It’s time for Democrats to pack the Supreme Court. They control the presidency and, by the slimmest of margins, both houses of Congress. On the Court, though, conservatives hold a commanding six-to-three majority. Democrats should seize their current opportunity and pass… Continue reading
