In a profound bit of synchronicity, a blogmate (you know who you are) and I were dialoguing today about The Bronx *and* about individuals with Puerto Rican cultural roots. The documentary “Takeover,” which chronicles the radical actions of the Young Lords, was recently shortlisted for an Academy Award. In 1970, the Puerto Rican collective took…
Tag: Rise Up Times
Tuesday, January 11, 2022: Call-in Day for Julian Assange — Rise Up Times
Please, mark it on your calendars and call in. Julian Assange is charged under the Espionage Act. He is not a spy. He is a journalist. He provided information of public interest to the whole world, not a foreign adversary.” Tuesday, January 11, 2022: Call-in Day for Julian Assange — Rise Up Times
Hedges: The Execution of Julian Assange — Rise Up Times
Chris Hedges on Julian Assange and the larger ramifications of his continued persecution. “If [Assange is] found guilty it will effectively criminalize the investigative work of all journalists and publishers, anywhere in the world and of any nationality, who possess classified documents to shine a light on the inner workings of power. This mortal assault…
Glenn Greenwald: What Are the Major Media Sources of Fake News and Disinformation? — Rise Up Times
Be very careful which news sources to trust! What I have started to do to try to discern truth from falsehood is to read multiple sources and take a good look at those sources to see what they might gain from spinning the story the way they do. Then I triangulate them much as a…
Winona LaDuke: Line 3 opponents can savor this defeat — Rise Up Times
IMPORTANT TO READ “Uncertainty about Line 3 caused by Indigenous people and water protectors encouraged massive divestment from the tar sands by non-Canadian investors. Everybody from Shell Oil to the Koch brothers bailed out. Last month, my alma mater, Harvard University, began divestment of fossil fuels. Harvard wouldn’t even divest from South Africa, those stubborn…
United Nations committee asks U.S. to investigate possible Line 3 treaty violations — Rise Up Times
This would be precedent setting. We need that kind of precedent. In Michigan, we are fighting Line 5 running under the Great Lakes right now. “If the violations are verified by the United Nations, the letter says it would be a breach of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination,…
Minnesota Governor Walz “Can’t” Stop LINE 3, by Susu Jeffrey — Rise Up Times
Minnesota is home to the headwaters of the three major North American watersheds that drain north to Hudson Bay, south down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico, and east out the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River to the North Atlantic Ocean. Slicing across all three watersheds are two black Enbridge tar sands…
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