Democracy Now! In an extended interview, we speak with archeologist David Wengrow, who co-authored the new book “The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity” with the late anthropologist David Graeber. The book examines how Indigenous cultures contributed greatly to what we have come to understand as so-called Western… Continue reading
Extinction Rebellion UK Extinction Rebellion announces plans for April 2022: ‘The COP process has failed, it’s up to all of us now’ https://chuffed.org/project/xrapril2022 Extinction Rebellion UK responds to the failure of the COP process with plans to mobilise two million in the UK towards mass civil disobedience, with the first… Continue reading
By Ellen Francis and Gabriela Sá Pessoa November 19, 2021 | WashingtonPost.com Brazil’s Amazon rainforest lost more trees over the past year than in any year since 2006. Satellite data revealed that deforestation rose by nearly 22 percent from the last period to reach its highest level in 15 years, the National Institute for… Continue reading
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Peasants’ Revolt The boy-king Richard II meets the rebels on 14 June 1381, in a miniature from a 1470s copy of Jean Froissart‘s Chronicles. Date30 May – November 1381LocationEnglandResultSacking of Tower of London and mass execution of Royal officialsCharters granted to rebel townsEventual suppression of revolt and execution of rebel leaders Belligerents Rebel forces… Continue reading
A combination of deep scholarship, pointed politics and poetically precise prose By Paul Wilner Special to The Examiner • November 16, 2021 (SFExaminer.com) By Paul Wilner Special to The Examiner Everyone — well, almost everyone — knows of George Orwell, whose classic dystopian parable, Nineteen Eighty-Four, is regularly summoned upon as commentary on… Continue reading
The Prophet: The Life of Leon Trotsky by Isaac Deutscher Few political figures of the twentieth century have aroused such intensities of fierce admiration and reactionary fear as Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. His extraordinary life and extensive writings have left an indelible mark on the revolutionary consciousness. Yet there was once… Continue reading
Man Armed with Knife Fatally Shot by Officers in San Francisco’s South of Market District – November 19, 2021 ~ ~ ~ ~ Tonight at 6pm in Oakland, CA, & other cities. Demo on Rittenhouse Acquital Oakland – meet at: 14th & BroadwayOakland Initiated by All of Us Or None, Anti-Police Terror Project,… Continue reading
Pilot could break years of stagnation detailed in Examiner investigation By Jeff Elder • November 17, 2021 12:30 pm – SFExaminer.com San Francisco is finally making some progress using open-source technology in voting machines, a long-stalled city project that advocates say could save taxpayer money, add security and give voters more transparency in elections…. Continue reading
