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The Last Time Democracy Almost Died, by Jill Lepore
“It’s a paradox of democracy that the best way to defend it is to attack it, to ask more of it, by way of criticism, protest, and dissent.”
Henry Giroux: Fighting back against the age of manufactured ignorance: Resistance is still possible
“The underlying message of CRT is to dismantle forms of structural racism in order to create a more fair and just society.”
“Banning instruction on ‘critical race theory’ has become the new McCarthyism.”
Cancel Culture: Chris Hedges with Dan Kovalik
Cancel culture individualist struggle is about white folks becoming less racist instead of working together for real social change.
Warmest thoughts and best wishes for a wonderful holiday and a very Happy New Year
Rise Up Times is admittedly and consciously eclectic with a focus on media analysis and antiwar, propeace activities but inclusive of many movements that coalesce and weave in and out of each other.
Sweet Honey in the Rock: Keep Your Eyes on the Prize
Hold on, hold on
Keep your eyes on the prize, hold on
Sweet Honey in the Rock: Ella’s Song
To me young people come first
They have the courage where we fail
Ilhan, Antone and the Price of Inclusion, by Ricardo Levins Morales
“Inclusionists demand equal participation at all levels of the empire and its institutions while transformationists call for fundamental change.”
Andrew J. Bacevich, The All-American Way: MLK’s Giant Triplets
“What I am suggesting is that those calling for fundamental change will go badly astray if they ignore Dr. King’s insistence that each of the giant triplets [racism, extreme materialism, militarism] is intimately tied to the other two.”
Regime Change and Climate Change: Connecting the Dots
Particular focus on the continuing threats of the U.S. imperialist regime change agenda regarding Venezuela and Iran, with a major objective of seizing control of the biggest (Venezuela) and 4th biggest (Iran) oil reserves in the world. If this imperialist goal is realized, militarized fossil capital will surely extract this oil thereby leading the world […]
Democracy Now! COVID-19 Kills Blacks Disproportionately and Black Sacrifice Zones
“Exposing U.S. Racism in a Stark New Way”: COVID-19 Kills Disproportionate Number of Black America; COVID-19 Sacrifice Zones: Coronavirus Devastates Black Communities Historically Denied Healthcare
Supreme Court Crushes Media Diversity in Ruling on Lawsuit Accusing Comcast of Racial Discrimination
“What this story is about is, it’s basically — it’s about a series of black entertainment moguls who started media networks or television shows.”
Understanding US-China Conflict, with Sarah Flounders
Sarah Flounders of the International Action Center discusses and compares China and the US, talks about COVID-19 in the two countries, and discusses US sanctions worldwide.
“Coronavirus Capitalism”: Naomi Klein’s Case for Transformative Change Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
“Klein argues it’s vital for people to fight for the kind of transformative change that can not only curb the worst effects of the current crisis but also set society on a more just path.”
National Endowment for Destabilization? CIA Funds for Latin America
“A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA,” said NED cofounder Allen Weinstein in 1991.
No to NATO, Yes to Peace Gathering Washington DC (Video)
It’s almost time to unwelcome NATO! “No Compromise, No Retreat in the Fight to End Militarism and War” (Black Alliance of Peace)
Women’s March DC Videos: Nina Turner and the March in DC and Elsewhere
The consensus in the comments was Nina Turner for president, or at least a Bernie/Turner ticket. In the Real News video that follows commentator Taya Graham noted that the mainstream corporate media focused on dissent instead of the issues. A major theme of the march was Unity, as Nina Turner emphasizes.
The Defeat of US Imperialism is a Strategic Necessity, not a Single Issue by Danny Haiphong
US imperialism has become a single issue, with many leftists choosing to express solidarity with Palestinians but not for Syrians, Iranians, or Iraqis.
David Swanson Discusses “Curing American Exceptionalism”
Curing Exceptionalism: What’s wrong with how we think about the United States? What can we do about it?
Resisting Nuclear Weapons Means Resisting Injustice and Oppression
Nuclear arsenals are part of broader systems of patriarchy, racism, militarism, and capitalism.
The Empire’s Hustle: Why Anti-Trumpism Doesn’t Include Anti-War
Nothing rehabilitates an unpopular president in capitalist “America” like war.
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