Topic: Thinking Politically
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Why African-American Doctors are Choosing to Study Medicine in Cuba
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Discusses medical education in Cuba, with a special forcus on poorly-served, low income communities in the United States.
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Not a Paying Customer? Go Shit Somewhere Else.
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Those of us who grew up reading Abbie Hoffman's and Jerry Rubin's diatribes against pay toilets will apprecieate this.
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Venezuela Defeated the U.S. in Its Election. Now It Must Build an Independent Economy.
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Kevin Zeese sets the record straight on the recent elections in Venezuela.
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Blackstone, BlackRock or a Public Bank? Putting California’s Funds to Work
http://EllenBrown.com May 26, 2018 California has over $700 billion parked in private banks earning minimal interest, private equity funds that contributed to the affordable housing crisis, or shadow banks of the sort that caused the banking collapse of 2008. These funds, or some of them, could be transferred to an infrastructure bank that…
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“Why, This Isn’t Cuba”
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Back in the 1890s those who believed conquering a continent was killing enough (without taking over Hawaii, the Philippines, Cuba, Puerto Rico, etc.) included Speaker of the House Thomas Reed. He clipped an article out of a newspaper about a lynching in South Carolina. He clipped a headline about “Another Outrage in Cuba.” He pasted…
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Taking Power at the Municipal Level
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A review of two books about experiences in Richmond, California.
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Students to IDEM (Indiana Department of Environmental Management: Gary is Not a Dump, Our Education is More Important than a Dump
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Students in Gary, Indiana fight environmental racism, trying to stop a "solid waste processing facility" from being established within 100 feet of their school.
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Jane F. McAlevey, ‘No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age’: A Review Essay
New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. ISBN: 978-0190624712 This is an absolutely important—and brilliant—recent book by someone who knows what she’s talking about. It is clear, thoughtful and, yes, inspiring. It is a book that I believe should be read by every social change activist in (at least) North America. It is written by…
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Marx’s Relevance in Today’s World: A Reflection on His 200th Birthday
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Jean Batou deconstructs the simplistic interpretations of Marx's work that have obscured his relevance for our time.
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Getting Past Trump, Part 3: The Futility of “Big Green” Activism: A Conversation with Tim DeChristopher
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I really don’t think that most mainstream climate environmental organizations are operating with any kind of intentional strategy in which they think that what they are doing will lead to positive change. When groups are mobilizing their members to “send a message” or “make their voices heard” to [US Secretary of the Interior Ryan] Zinke,…