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Taft-Hartley Act

Back in the day on June 23rd, 1947, the U.S. Congress overrode the veto of President Harry Truman and passed the notorious Taft-Hartley Act. With the “Class of 1946” Republicans in control of Congress, the anti-labor legislation passed with a significant number of Democratic lawmakers in support of the override. Many of the provisions of …

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Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has announced that he is considering ending patents on medicines and other products in his nation. He claimed, “[a] song is intellectual property, but an invention or a scientific discovery should be knowledge for the world, especially medicine.” Chavez has embraced a form of socialism and dismantled many aspects …

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Joe Louis Defeats Max Schmeling

Back in the day on June 22nd, 1938, African-American boxer Joe Louis defeated the German pugilist Max Schmeling in a highly touted rematch. Unlike any other fight before it, the contest was imbued with racial and ideological undertones. Louis, the pride of African-Americans living in oppressive conditions in the U.S., was previously …

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Uprising’s Dollar-a-Day Best of Fund Drive Pack:

A Grin Without a Cat – DVD – $150
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Travel is a Political Act

What started as a career in tour guiding and teaching people how to travel Europe on a dime has taken a political turn for acclaimed travel expert and PBS series host Rick Steves. For decades, Rick Steves has encouraged Americans to travel outside of their comfort zones by choosing destinations that are both challenging and thought provoking over …

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Grin Without a Cat

French film maker Chris Marker is best known in mainstream audiences for his dystopian sci fi film La Jetee, on which the Hollywood movie 12 Monkeys is based. But activists on the left also know him for his epic political documentary essay about the rise and fall of the new left: Grin Without a Cat, which Marker made in …

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Woodstock: Three Days of Peace and Music

Forty years ago this August, an estimated 3-500,000 people gathered in New York State for the Woodstock Music Festival. Dubbed as the biggest rock concert of its time, Woodstock showcased the best performers of “rock, folk, and progressive popular music” of the sixties and came to epitomize the 60’s hippie culture of “sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll.” We …

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Torturing Democracy

Jose Padilla, a US citizen arrested in 2002 for a so-called “dirty bomb” plot and sentenced to 17 years in prison for supporting Al Qaeda, is preparing to sue attorney John Yoo for crafting legal memos justifying his torture. Padilla alleges that during his three years as an “enemy combatant” at a US Navy installation in Charleston, South Carolina, he was tortured and his …

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The Power of Nightmares

BBC film maker Adam Curtis made this film, The Power of Nightmares just a few years after the September 11th 2001 attacks. His thesis is that both Western politicians who claim to protect us from terrorism, and radical Islamic fundamentalists who claim to fight US imperialism, are two sides of the same coin. Caught in the middle are, us, the civilian populations …

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The Essential Chomsky

Noam Chomsky is a professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is known in the academic and scientific community as the father of modern linguistics. Since the 1960s, he has become known more widely as an anarchist-leaning political dissident, and libertarian socialist intellectual.

Beginning with his opposition to the Vietnam War Chomsky established himself as a prominent critic of US …

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