The Other America: MLK Jr. at Stanford Univ. 1967
“If we spend thirty-five billion dollars a year to fight an ill-conceived war in Vietnam and twenty billion dollars to put a man on the moon, we can spend billions of dollars to put God’s children on their own two feet, right now.” On 14 April 1967, Martin Luther King,...
“Joe Biden and …” – A Special Webinar Series
A special series of Zoom Webinars looking at major issue areas and examining how the new president might address them, hosted by PPJC Director Emeritus Paul George Joe Biden and the Middle East Wednesday, January 6, 7:00 PM Prof. Joel Beinin Emeritus Prof. of Middle East History, Stanford Univ. Joe...
The People’s Bailout!
We Need The People’s Bailout! June 1st, 2020 We need a swift, inclusive bailout, by and for the people. As the COVID-19 crisis ravages the globe and impacts the health and stability of our communities, Congress has responded with a stimulus package that doesn’t satisfy the level of direct aid that...
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Ted Rall by Ted Rall for March 03, 2021 | GoComics.com
Ted Rall by Ted Rall for March 03, 2021 | GoComics.com
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View the comic strip for Ted Rall by cartoonist Ted Rall created March 03, 2021 available on GoComics.comThe capacity to exercise moral autonomy, to refuse to cooperate, to wreck the megamachine, offers us the only possibility left to personal freedom and a life of meaning. Rebellion is its own justification. It erodes, however imperceptibly, the structures of oppression. It sustains the embers of empathy and compassion, as well as justice. These embers are not insignificant. They keep alive the capacity to be human. They keep alive the possibility, however dim, that the forces that are orchestrating our social murder can be stopped. Rebellion must be embraced, finally, not only for what it will achieve, but for what it will allow us to become. In that becoming we find hope.
Chris Hedges: The Age of Social Murder
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The ruling elites, despite the accelerating and tangible ecological collapse, mollify us, either by meaningless gestures or denial.Sheryl Sandberg and top Facebook execs silenced an enemy of Turkey to prevent a hit to the company's business
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Facebook sided with Turkey's demand to block the page of a mostly Kurdish militia."Screw this system that allows some people to have enough money to end world hunger (literally Jeff Bezos could end world hunger many times over) and yet never do it, while other individuals sleep on a bench hoping no one steals their one box of cereal in the night."
It’s Time for Major Wealth Redistribution
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No need to be all apologetic about it, either, since we would just be reclaiming the trillions taken by the billionaires."If we are to end the pandemic, save human lives, and prevent economic catastrophe for the most vulnerable, we urgently need to overhaul the mechanisms of disaster capitalism and ensure that vaccines are equitably distributed and anti-COVID measures effectively implemented across the world."
What the vaccine debacle tells us about predatory capitalism
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The botched COVID-19 vaccination campaign is a great illustration of why our current capitalist system does not work.In the end, this bullying will be used by social media platforms, which are integrated into the state security and surveillance organs, not to promote, as its supporters argue, civility, but ruthlessly silence dissidents, intellectuals, artists and independent journalism. Once you control what people say you control what they think.
Chris Hedges: Cancel Culture, Where Liberalism Goes To Die - PopularResistance.Org
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The Rev. Will Campbell was forced out of his position as director of religious life at the University of Mississippi in 1956 because of his calls for integration. He escorted Black children through a ...