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Here is why we are boycotting the UN Food Systems Summit
Social movements and scientists are staying out of the UN summit because it represents big agribusiness interests.
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People working a minimum wage job can’t afford rent anywhere in the U.S.
Over 40% of Black and Latinx households pay more than 30% of their income on rent, compared with 25% of white households.
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Nicaragua’s Sandinistas battle ‘diabolical’ U.S. empire and poverty on 42nd anniversary of revolution
The Grayzone reports from Nicaragua on the 42nd anniversary of the Sandinista revolution. Nicaraguans discuss their improved quality of life, President Ortega condemns the dictatorial U.S. “empire that wants to dominate all countries,” and Vice President Murillo declares poverty an imperialist “crime against humanity.”
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What’s actually going on in Cuba?
Don’t believe everything you read on social media.
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People’s lawyer P. A. Sebastian and the Socialist Project
Sebastian, in his writings in The Fight to Win Rights, is direct, and honest, unafraid to state unpalatable facts. Blunt and matter-of-fact, his words seem to be deliberately chosen to appeal to the conscience of people, his mode of expression reflecting his commitment to justice and the truth.
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Michael Ratner’s inspiring activist life culminated with dramatic change on Israel
Michael Ratner personally changed human rights law, and in doing so he let go childhood views of Israel. “I thought of [Israel] as the home of my people. I had my bedroom ceiling painted with the seven wonders of the world and a huge map of Israel. I had no idea how my view of Israel would change later in life.”
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Freedom Rider: Standing with the Cuban people
The current Black-centered Cuban protest operation is very well orchestrated and if Black people in this country are not careful, they will end up amplifying the dictates of U.S. imperialism.
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Cuba: hell, purgatory and paradise
The United States was never satisfied with having lost the Cuba subjected to its ambitions. Therefore, shortly after the victory of the guerrillas of the Sierra Maestra, they tried to invade the island with mercenary troops. They were defeated in April 1961. The following year, President Kennedy decreed the blockade of Cuba, which continues to this day.
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#BetitaTaughtUs: Chicanisma and El Movimiento
With deep sadness and respect, Organizing Upgrade is sharing a few more tributes to movement elder Betita Martinez, who died June 29. In her 95 years she lived many lifetimes, and brought her commitment, wit and political clarity to several of the most significant social movements of our day.
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Behold: the fallacy of “techo-inevitabilism”
Director Werner Herzog’s documentary ‘Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World’ (2016) begins with “Internet pioneer” Leonard Kleinrock, who welcomes us into the, yes, actual laboratory where it was “born”! To Wagnerian strains in the soundtrack, Kleinrock complacently calls the place “a holy shrine”–quite a revealing phrase for this acolyte of possibly the last of the false religions.
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Breaking through the western media propaganda coverage of Cuba protests
While there are plenty of reasons for ordinary Cubans to currently feel disenchanted about life on the island, there are also strong suspicions that these protests were not quite the grassroots uprising they were made out to be in the U.S. press.
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Why Human Rights in China and Tigray, But Not in Haiti, Palestine or Colombia?
Over eight days, from June 25-30, Haiti had been subjected to increasing state-sponsored, imperial and gang violence. Massacres killed almost 60 people in Port au Prince, including in Cité Soleil, Delmas and Pétionville, as well as on on Rue Magloire Ambroise.
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Food supply to 675,000 people cut off after Durban food bank ransacked
FoodForward SA closes branches nationwide because of insecurity.
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Food riots show the need for a basic income grant
As rioters target supermarkets, activists call on the government to help those who cannot survive amid rising prices and mass unemployment.
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Where infrastructure means prisons: a drive into the Naqab and the illusion of Israeli democracy
Out of close to 250,000 Palestinian Beduin in the Naqab, about half live in “unrecognized villages.” This means they get no roads, no electricity or running water, no schools or medical facilities—no services at all.
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After Moïse assassination, popular sectors must lead the way
Analysis the day after the Haitian president’s assassination focused on liberal constitutionalism and elections. This narrow view overlooks the longstanding demands from organized popular sectors.
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Is socialisation of investment enough?
In Keynes’ words: “It is not the ownership of the instruments of production which it is important for the State to assume. If the State is able to determine the aggregate amount of resources devoted to augmenting the instruments, and the basic rate of reward to those who own them, it will have accomplished all that is necessary.”
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The institutional murder of Fr. Stan Swamy
This is not a natural death, but the institutional murder of a gentle soul, committed by an inhuman state.
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For gay migrants, cruising spots aren’t just shadows and shame
Largely abandoned by middle-class gays, urban parks remain an important refuge for gay migrants in an otherwise hostile city.
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Digital Money Beyond Blockchain with Rohan Grey
In this episode, we’re joined by Rohan Grey (@rohangrey), President of the Modern Money Network, Director of the National Jobs for All Coalition, Research Fellow at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity, and JSD student at Cornell Law school. Our conversation is dedicated to Rohan’s current work on the political, economic, and cultural implications of money’s digital future.