New and Noteworthy 2019

On Sunday, Dec. 23, we will be at Columbia 3-5 pm as usual.  Join us there!

For the week of Dec. 16 to 22, 2018

1. Banking and Finance
   • Official Charter of the Yellow Vests
     • Blacking out the yellow vests on cable news: corporate media doing its job
   • Fossil fuel money crushed clean energy ballot initiatives across the country
   • Anand Giridharadas: Winners take all: Elite charade of changing the world
   • Harvard Quietly Amasses California Vineyards—and the Water Underneath
     • Harvard’s hidden control over vineyards and water rights
   • Politicians have caused a pay ‘collapse’ for the bottom 90 percent of workers, researchers say
   • The Postal Worker’s Christmas
     • Trump proposal to privatize the postal service
   • U.S. Poverty program could aid luxury high-rise
2. House passes bill to drop legal protections for gray wolves
3. Headley Case Again Raises Questions About NYPD Accountability Under De Blasio
4. A black man tried to cash his paycheck. The bank called the cops.
5. Racism is a national security issue
6. Why Deep Blue New York Is ‘Voter Suppression Land’
7. News the establishment media saw fit not to print
   • 25 undercovered stories from 2017-2018

For the week of Dec. 9 to 15, 2018

1. Banking and Finance
   • Are You Ready for the Financial Crisis of 2019?
   • History of cooperatives, cooperation and communalism in U.S Interview begins 18:30 minutes into the podcast
   • The Public Ownership Solution
   • Can Socialism Save Democracy?
   • Yellow vests:
     • From Sans Culottes to Gilets Jaunes: Macron’s Marie Antoinette Moment
     • Yellow vests rise up against elites and neoliberalism
     • Yellow Vests Show the Way
   • Robert Reich: Truth about privatization
   • Oil companies writing the rules:
     • Trump’s attack on clean water act will fuel destructive pipeline boom
     • The Oil Industry’s Covert Campaign to Rewrite American Car Emissions Rules
   • Debunking market fundamentalism: On Being podcast When the Market is the Only Language
     • “I don’t think we can attack prosaic things like the level of inequality or the level of, even, societal anger without going to a deeper place of uprooting a culture in which money is the fundamental currency of value.”
     • Or, even better, this interview “Are elites making the world a better place?”
   • Why green new deal advocates must address militarism
2. 70th Anniversary of Universal Declaration of Human Rights Does anyone care? Certainly not the Trump administration
   • Boundlessly Idealistic, Universal Declaration Of Human Rights Is Still Resisted
   • Article 9: No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile
   • Article 25: (1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family …  
     • yes, “himself”. Well, nothing is perfect.
3. Back to reality: 30 people arrested for nonviolent action in support of migrant caravans
4. The strange case of the Guardian & Brasil
5. University of Ghana Pulls Down Mahatma Gandhi’s Statue On Campus
6. Amazon’s Disturbing Plan to Add Face Surveillance to Your Front Door
7. What could the President do if he declares a state of emergency?
8. Yemen / Saudi Arabia
   • Senate votes to end U.S. involvement in Saudi war crimes in Yemen
   • 5 “Despicable” Democrats join Republicans to block vote on Yemen in House
9. Another child separation crisis:
   • How Incarcerated Parents Are Losing Their Children Forever
10. The humanitarian crisis in plain sight on the streets of L.A.
11. John Oliver: Authoritarianism
12. The Criminal Justice Reform Bill You’ve Never Heard Of

For the week of Dec. 2 to 8, 2018

1. Banking and Finance
   • Asset forfeiture is a travesty of justice. We hope the Supreme Court will stop the practice
     • Podcast about asset forfeiture: Money side of the highway
     • Justices’ Jokes In Seized SUV Row Have Advocates Grinning
   • America’s Concentration Crisis: How monopolization is contributing to inequality
   • NYT Columnist recognizes that American Capitalism Isn’t Working.
   • Defense Department fails audit — that was supposed to be done decades ago
   • Shell Oil, under pressure from investors, agrees to carbon footprint targets
   • A Closer Look at the Tax Incentives in the Amazon Deal
   • What a Green New Deal might look like
   • An Ecosocialist path to limiting global temperatre rise to 1.5C
2. How the Black Panthers revolutionized healthcare
3. What are private security companies doing in Afghanistan?
4. U.S. wants 35-40k local fighters in Syria – General Dunford
5. U.S. Sabotages U.N. Attempt at Yemen Ceasefire, as Opposition to War Grows in Congress
6. Several roads to decarceration: all of which should be taken
7. French Protests / Yellow Vests
   • Can the climate movement survive populism: lessons from yellow-vests
   • Why the French working poor are demanding Emmanuel Macron’s resignation
   • What the ‘Yellow Vests’ Movement Tells Us About the Massive Level of Discontent in France
8. 15 worrying things about CRISPR babies scandal
9. AMLO inaugurated promises profound and radical transformation

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