Life after Bernie
Submitted by gjohnsit on Wed, 06/24/2020 - 2:37pm
Say what you will about Bernie, you have to give him credit for making it a movement, rather than something that's just about him (cough: Obama).
‘The Tulsa Race Riot and Three of Its Victims’ by B.C. Franklin; an eyewitness account
Submitted by wendy davis on Wed, 06/24/2020 - 11:50amThe 1931 manuscript, “The Tulsa Race Riot and Three of Its Victims,” by B.C. Franklin was recovered from a storage area in 2015 and donated to the African American History Museum.
On magiamma’s June 11, 2020 Hot Air, she’d featured this testimonial of Kimberly Jones’ ‘How We Can Win’, in which she speaks so scathingly and eloquently of ‘Black Economics in America’, and mentions the burnings of Tulsa and Rosewood. She blasts: “you broke the contract when we built wealth in Tulsa and you dropped bombs on us! At the time, I was so blown away…that I hadn’t noticed: 'dropped bombs on us!.
06/24 OT: It's Fors Fortuna. Hooray Fortuna!
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Wed, 06/24/2020 - 5:00am
Fortuna
Your world view....
Submitted by Mickt on Tue, 06/23/2020 - 10:27pmI detest the way Bolton views the world. But it isn't just Bolton. Neither party really wants to distance themselves from his overarching views. Just details. Hillary/Biden have a Kissinger view that is very controlling/racist view of the world. Trump actually wanted to pull troops out. Not because he cares about the people, but because he doesn't. Democrats don't want troop to leave. They want control.
The Evening Blues - 6-23-20
Submitted by joe shikspack on Tue, 06/23/2020 - 2:35pmLA cops murder another kid
Submitted by wendy davis on Tue, 06/23/2020 - 11:22amThis time, Andres Guardado, 18, RIP.
From Jacob Crosse, 22 June 2020, wsws.org, part of a much longer column:
“In Los Angeles, a rally for the recently murdered Andres Guardado exceeded expectations with thousands participating Sunday afternoon. The march began at 1 p.m. with roughly 100 people, but by the time the march reached the front of the Los Angeles County Compton Sheriff’s (LASD) office, which was surrounded by riot police, the crowd had swelled into the thousands.
It has been over 72 hours since police gunned down the 18-year-old Guardado, who was working as a security guard at the Freeway auto body shop located on the 400 block of Redondo Beach Blvd. According to Captain Kent Wegener of the LASD, deputies were “observing Guardado,” who allegedly spotted the deputies looking at him. Upon seeing the police, Guardado supposedly “produced a gun” before running away from the police. Wegener stated that after a short foot-pursuit an as-yet unnamed deputy “fired six shots” into Guardado, killing him. No deputies were injured.
Tuesday Open Thread ~ Tales of the Forest
Submitted by Anja Geitz on Tue, 06/23/2020 - 3:22amThe clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness. ~ John Muir
Cuomo: "6,300 nursing home deaths are a political charade
Submitted by snoopydawg on Tue, 06/23/2020 - 1:06amThe hubris and arrogance of Cuomo's statement is unbelievable.
"Republicans...are playing politics."@NYGovCuomo doesn't take responsibility for New York's nursing home deaths.
He blames the federal response and calls the Congressional investigation a "political charade." pic.twitter.com/glKFU3lodz
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) June 22, 2020