11 Jul 2016

CUNY Responds To BDS Activism On Campuses With Move To Control Free Expression

The proposal would establish a policy on what constitutes free speech and prohibits not only disruptions against people, but at the 24 CUNY campuses as well.

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10 Jul 2016

The Policing Crisis Is Result Of ‘Class Project’ Against Workers And Poor Minorities

Gut-wrenching acts of police violence against black people were captured on video and shared widely this past week. In Minneapolis, Philando Castile was executed, and while he was dying in a car seat, his girlfriend, Lavish Reynolds, narrated a Facebook livestream. In Baton Rouge, Alton Sterling was brutalized by police,

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09 Jul 2016

Clinton Democrats Defeat Effort To Address Government Revolving Door In Platform

Delegates from Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign prevented a lobbyist amendment from being added to the Democratic Party platform. It would have suggested Democrats support regulating the revolving door, which allows federal government officials to work for industries they were in charge of regulating and later return to positions in government. At

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08 Jul 2016

Dallas Police Shooting: Blowback From Impunity And Structural Racism

There will continue to be blowback against police so long as officers engage in horrific acts of violence and oppression against minority communities.

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07 Jul 2016

Teachers Protest Deportations, Detention Of Refugee Students At First Clinton And Obama Rally

Teachers and students were there to protest Obama’s record on deportations, and demand Clinton and Obama release refugee youth.

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07 Jul 2016

Remembering Abbas Kiarostami’s Revelatory Films

Award-winning Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami died on July 4. He was known for “watchful eyes,” an ability to make films revealing new aspects of life.

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06 Jul 2016

Blair Unrepentant After Iraq War Inquiry Vindicates Anti-War Movement

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s long-winded statements to the press were classic imperial rationalizations of a war of empire in Iraq.

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05 Jul 2016

In Email Investigation, FBI Makes Political Decision To Not Recommend Charges For Clinton

Though evidence of “potential violations” was uncovered, the agency concluded “no reasonable prosecutor” would bring a case against Clinton.

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05 Jul 2016

Protest Song Of The Week: ‘Old Man Trump’

Shadowproof’s “Protest Song Of The Week” is a recording of lyrics Woody Guthrie wrote about his racist landlord, Fred Trump, back in the early 1950s.

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01 Jul 2016

In Transparent Act, Obama Administration Erases Civilian Deaths From Drone Strikes

Obama administration releases preposterously low figure for the number of civilians killed by drones and other strikes.

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