The Coming War: Speak Up, Now
by John Pilger, CounterPunch
on May 16, 2023
In 1935, the Congress of American Writers was held in New York City, followed by another two years later.
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The Speech That Biden Should Give: ‘I’ve Changed My Mind’
by Norman Solomon
on May 16, 2023
My fellow Americans:
I’ve changed my mind. With a heavy heart, I am announcing that I will not seek or accept the Democratic Party’s nomination for president in 2024.
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We Stand in Solidarity With the Writers' Strike
by RootsAction Education Fund
on May 14, 2023
The RootsAction Education Fund stands in solidarity with the Writers Guild strikers.
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Lessons from Barcelona’s 8-year experiment in radical governance
by Mark Engler and Paul Engler, Waging Nonviolence
on May 14, 2023
Activists who took over Barcelona’s City Hall have made lasting progressive gains, while also confronting the limits of being in power.
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'We Will Not Be Silenced': Tlaib Headlines DC Nakba Event Despite McCarthy Meddling
by Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams
on May 11, 2023
The Michigan Democrat joined rights groups in a Senate committee room to mark the ethnic cleansing of more than 750,000 Palestinians during the founding of modern Israel.
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Why I'm Saying No to the IDF as a 17-Year-Old
by Fred Hidvegi, Common Dreams
on May 04, 2023
As my birthday approaches, I grow more and more anxious because a professional organization of trained terrorists that calls itself an army wants me to be one of them. And if I say no, a prison sentence will be the result.
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The DOJ Is Using “Foreign Agents” Accusations to Repress Black Liberation Organizers
by Collin P. Poirot and Azadeh Shahshahani, The Nation
on May 02, 2023
We must demand that the FBI cease invoking the Foreign Agents Registration Act to spy on and criminalize Black social justice leaders.
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Bush’s “Mission Accomplished,” 20 Years Later
by Norman Solomon
on May 01, 2023
Twenty years ago, President George W. Bush landed in a twin-engine Navy jet on an aircraft carrier, strode across the deck in a bulky flight suit and proceeded to give a televised victory speech under a huge red-white-and-blue banner announcing “Mission Accomplished.”
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Dan Ellsberg Receives the Sam Adams Award (video)
by Eric Garris, Antiwar.com
on April 28, 2023
Daniel Ellsberg, (born April 7, 1931, Chicago, Illinois), American military analyst and researcher who, in 1971, leaked portions of a classified 7,000-page report that detailed the history of U.S. intervention in Indochina from World War II until 1968.
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City proclamations celebrate Daniel Ellsberg Week
by RootsAction.org
on April 27, 2023
Seeking “to honor peacemaking and whistleblowing,” the cities of Albuquerque, N.M., and San Francisco and Berkeley, Calif., have issued proclamations designating April 24-30 as Daniel Ellsberg Week to honor the renowned Pentagon Papers whistleblower.
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