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November 12, 2018

Op-Ed War & Peace

Veterans Resist: Deploying Art to Oppose Militarism

More veterans and service members are turning destructive energy and military training into acts of creative resistance.

by Kevin Basl, Truthout

November 12, 2018

Op-Ed War & Peace

One-Hundred Years Later, It’s Time to Disarm Armistice Day

Veterans Day has become a celebration of war-machine porn, unlike its somber beginnings in the Armistice Day.

by Robert F. Sommer, Truthout

November 12, 2018

Op-Ed Economy & Labor

Learning From 3.7 Percent Unemployment: It’s More Than Just a Number

If we don’t push the unemployment rate as low as possible, then we are needlessly keeping millions out of work.

by Dean Baker, Truthout

November 12, 2018

Physicians Work to Bring Back the Anti-Nuclear Movement

By pressuring elected officials, the Washington Against Nuclear Weapons coalition has gained ground.

by Dahr Jamail, Truthout

Veterans can use expose and interrupt the United States' terrible need for endless war. — Veterans Resist: Deploying Art to Oppose Militarism

A father helps his daughter hold flowers before putting them onto headstones of family members after the Fort Logan VA National Cemetery Veterans Day Ceremony at Fort Logan National Cemetery on November 11, 2018, in Denver, Colorado. — One-Hundred Years Later, It’s Time to Disarm Armistice Day

A store advertises that they are hiring in lower Manhattan on June 1, 2018, in New York, New York. — Learning From 3.7 Percent Unemployment: It’s More Than Just a Number

Various members of different CND, anti-war and peace campaigners gathered to protest the bases of nuclear capable submarines, September 22, 2018, in Helensburgh, Scotland. — Physicians Work to Bring Back the Anti-Nuclear Movement

Featured

People gather to rally in favor of net neutrality in San Francisco, California, on December 7, 2017.

The Fight for Net Neutrality Heats Up as Democrats Take the House

by: Mike Ludwig,; Truthout

About 500 protesters chanting "Kill the Bill, Dont Kill Us!" fill the street outside the New York Stock Exchange on December 19, 2017, where the resources siphoned from the poor and middle class by the Republican tax bill will be concentrated.

The Election Was Step One. Now It’s Time to Take On the Capitalist Class.

by: Maria Svart,; Truthout

Even without Trump's birthright executive order, the threat of losing parents to deportation is a constant fear.

US Citizen Children of Migrants Already Suffer Under Immigration Law

by: Monica E. Ahmad-Yee,; Truthout

The acting attorney general could curtail funding for Mueller's probe and preclude avenues of investigation.

Fierce Critic of Mueller Probe Now Has Power to Sabotage the Investigation

by: Marjorie Cohn,; Truthout

Politics & Elections

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker speaks at the American Action Forum, January 30, 2015, in Washington, DC.

Wisconsin Workers Celebrate Scott Walker’s Defeat

by: Kathy Wilkes,; In These Times

Brenda Gutierrez and Tarana Burke march at the Take Back The Workplace March and #MeToo Survivors March & Rally at Producers Guild of America on November 12, 2017, in Beverly Hills, California.

#MeToo Could Become a Reckoning If Congress Treats It as a Financial Crisis

by: Elizabeth C. Tippett,; The Conversation

Partially-disclosing groups have already reported $405 million in 2018 election spending, according to federal election records analyzed by the Center for Responsive Politics.

Millions in Masked Money Was Funneled Into the 2018 Elections

by: Anna Massoglia,; Center for Responsive Politics

Matthew Whitaker, set to replace Attorney General Jeff Sessions, served for three years as the executive director of the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT). Whitaker's work at FACT included advocacy for causes backed by the fossil fuel industry.

Dark Money Paid New Trump Attorney General Matthew Whitaker’s Salary for Years

by: Sharon Kelly,; DeSmogBlog

Economy & Labor

Wells Fargo's CEO describes the company as having an "excess of capital," despite the fact that it is laying off workers, outsourcing jobs, and continuing to pay its employees nearly poverty-level wages.

Wells Fargo Enriches Its Shareholders While Laying Off Workers

by: Lenore Palladino,; Roosevelt Institute

A store advertises that they are hiring in lower Manhattan on June 1, 2018, in New York, New York.

Learning From 3.7 Percent Unemployment: It’s More Than Just a Number

by: Dean Baker,; Truthout

Anti-union governors Scott Walker and Bruce Rauner both lost re-election Tuesday night.

How Labor Helped Bring Down Scott Walker and Bruce Rauner

by: Rachel M. Cohen,; In These Times

The Magnolia Mother’s Trust asks participants what they need to not only pay the bills but also to fight generational poverty.

The First Guaranteed Basic Income Program Designed for Single Black Moms

by: J. Gabriel Ware,; YES! Magazine

Exclusives

A Challenge to the New Blue Congress: Govern as Progressives

A Challenge to the New Blue Congress: Govern as Progressives

Tuesday's election results were driven by grassroots enthusiasm for progressive policies, not centrism.

by: Norman Solomon,; Truthout

Progressives Are Pushing Economic Democracy. Democrats Need to Listen.

Progressives Are Pushing Economic Democracy. Democrats Need to Listen.

Democrats at all levels of government must direct public resources toward a cooperative, not a corporate economy.

by: Geoff Gilbert,; Truthout

To End the Trump Nightmare, We Need a Radical Political Agenda

To End the Trump Nightmare, We Need a Radical Political Agenda

Progressives got out the vote; now begins the hard work of transforming our political expectations and demands.

by: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor,; Truthout

Environment & Health

Advocates Warn Against Pence and Trump-Led Attacks on VA Health Care

Advocates Warn Against Pence and Trump-Led Attacks on VA Health Care

by: Amy Goodman,; Democracy Now!

A red sign in front of the Capitol that says "Protect sacred lands and water #NoKXL" and "Reject and Protect"

Federal Judge Halts Construction of Keystone XL Pipeline

by: Jake Johnson,; Common Dreams

Voters cast their ballots during the midterm election at the High School Art and Design polling station in Manhattan, New York, on November 6, 2018.

Voters Expand Medicaid While Defeating GOP House That Tried to Destroy It

by: Michael Corcoran,; Truthout

Noam Chomsky: The Future of Human Life Is at Risk, Thanks to Climate Denial

by: Amy Goodman &; Nermeen Shaikh,; Democracy Now!

Reproductive Rights

The Rules of the Economy Are Taking a Tragic Toll on Women and Their Pregnancies

by: Kendra Bozarth &; Andrea Flynn,; Roosevelt Institute

Alabama and West Virginia doubled down on anti-abortion laws as Oregon overwhelmingly rejected an abortion restriction measure.

Voters in Alabama and West Virginia Approve Anti-Abortion Measures

by: Katie Klabusich,; Truthout

Anti-Choice Measures Are on the Ballot in Three States Next Week

by: Lauren Holter,; Rewire.News

Self-Managed Early Abortion Care Is Now Accessible Online in the US

by: Auditi Guha,; Rewire.News

Art & Cartoons

Say the Word

Say the Word

by: Tom Tomorrow,; This Modern World

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The voices of resistance are heard and amplified by one another, the calendar reminds us.

War & Peace

This 2019 Peace Calendar Reminds Us That We Are Not Alone

The voices of resistance are heard and amplified by one another, the calendar reminds us.

by: Samantha Borek,; Truthout

Book

2019 Peace Calendar

War & Peace

Smoke billows following Israeli air strikes targeting Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, near the border with Egypt, on November 12, 2018. "Israel is once again looking to instigate a war on Gaza," Yousef Munayyer, executive director of the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, wrote on Twitter.

Israel Denounced for Attack After Late-Night Raid Kills Seven Palestinians

by: Jake Johnson,; Common Dreams

A father helps his daughter hold flowers before putting them onto headstones of family members after the Fort Logan VA National Cemetery Veterans Day Ceremony at Fort Logan National Cemetery on November 11, 2018, in Denver, Colorado.

One-Hundred Years Later, It’s Time to Disarm Armistice Day

by: Robert F. Sommer,; Truthout

Veterans can use expose and interrupt the United States' terrible need for endless war.

Veterans Resist: Deploying Art to Oppose Militarism

by: Kevin Basl,; Truthout

A boy walks by a house destroyed in an airstrike carried out by a Saudi-led coalition warplane in Sana'a, Yemen, September 19, 2018.

Progressives Call for Further Action to End Yemen’s Humanitarian Nightmare

by: Julia Conley,; Common Dreams

Prison & Policing

Maru Mora Villalpando speaking at the We Will Not be Silenced Rally in Washington, DC, January 19, 2018.

Under Trump, ICE Is Targeting Political Dissidents Like Me

by: Maru Mora Villalpando,; Truthout

Bruce Reilly and Will Harrell, two members of Voice of the Experienced, a group founded and run by formerly incarcerated activists, campaign for Amendment 2 in New Orleans, Louisiana, on November 6, 2018.

Louisiana Votes to Eliminate Jim Crow Jury Law

by: Mike Ludwig,; Truthout

House Democrats Could End Federal Marijuana Ban in 2019. Will They?

by: Mike Ludwig,; Truthout

Most dollars spent on fighting domestic violence go to the criminal justice system.

The Violence Against Women Act Is Unlikely to Reduce Intimate Partner Violence

by: Leigh Goodmark,; The Conversation

Series

After the Raid

After the Raid

Exposing the communal trauma of immigration enforcement.

Visions of 2018

Visions of 2018

Activist leaders address what they would like to see created, built or begun this year.

Human Rights and Global Wrongs

Human Rights and Global Wrongs

Marjorie Cohn analyzes human rights and executive branch lawbreaking.

Planet or Profit

Planet or Profit

Investigating systemic threats to the ecosystem from transglobal corporate profit-seeking.

Progressive Picks

Progressive Picks

Books and DVDs that we find thought-provoking and insightful.

The Public Intellectual

The Public Intellectual

Progressive academics address important social issues.

Education & Youth

Jaclyn Corin, a survivor of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting and one of the founders of the Never Again MSD movement, speaks at a March for Our Lives rally on August 12, 2018, in Newtown, Connecticut.

Students Across the Country Will Walk Out of School to Vote

by: Andrea Germanos,; Common Dreams

How to Make College More Affordable

by: Sydney Worth,; YES! Magazine

Saudi Ties to US Universities Under Question Amid Khashoggi Crisis

by: Amy Goodman,; Democracy Now!

Pedagogy for Profit: Education Under Capitalism

by: Gus Bagakis,; Truthout

Culture & Media

Tracy Arm Fjord, Alaska.

How the Loss of Native American Languages Affects Our Understanding of Nature

by: Rosalyn R. LaPier,; The Conversation

At left, A bomb disposal technician carries a package out of a U.S. Post Office facility at 52nd Street and 8th Avenue in Manhattan, October 26, 2018 in New York City.

Mail-Bomber “False Flag” Theories Overwhelm Right-Wing Discourse

by: David Neiwert,; Southern Poverty Law Center

The Ghost Script: A Graphic Novel, the newly released final volume of a trilogy by Jules Feiffer, opens up the world of the Hollywood Blacklist.

“The Ghost Script” Explores the Inside Story of Hollywood’s Blacklist

by: Paul Buhle,; Truthout

Trump Blames Media for Inciting “Anger” After Bombs Sent to CNN and Democrats

Pipe Bombs Point to How Trump’s Rhetoric Emboldens Violence

by: Amy Goodman,; Democracy Now!