Video: Water Got No Enemy | The Peace Poets
We losing our humanity/ They fire at our family/ Our flow be the remedy/ Cuz water got no enemy/ Na I ain’t commit no felony/ What’s that ish you tellin’ me/ You don’t know the man i plan to be/ Gotta go home to my family
Steven Rosenfeld: Leading Civil Rights Lawyer Shows 20 Ways Trump Is Copying Hitler’s Early Rhetoric and Policies
We’re used to thinking of Hitler’s Third Reich as the incomparably evil tyranny that it undoubtedly was. But Hitler didn’t take power by force. He used a set of rhetorical tropes codified in Trump’s bedside reading that persuaded enough Germans to welcome Hitler as a populist leader.
Zenobia Jeffries Warfield: The Declaration of Independence Told Us What to Do About Tyrants Like Trump
The government’s powers are derived from the consent of the governed, and it is our right to abolish any government that fails to protect our safety and happiness.
Video: Alone
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Chris Hedges: The Slaves Rebel
The only way to end slavery is to stop being a slave. Hundreds of men and women in prisons in some 17 states are refusing to carry out prison labor, … Continue reading
Peter Temin: Mass Incarceration’s Dangerous New Equilibrium
A new model probes why the US leads the world in jailing and imprisoning people, and what it will take to reverse course. Mass incarceration in the United States has … Continue reading
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