We will be on the ground in #SaltLakeCity on Wed., Jan. 17th from 6-8PM! Join us for a special evening of community, conversation and action, as we build momentum to get on the ballot in #Utah. 209 E 500 S, Salt Lake City, UT 84111
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former senior CIA agent John Stockwell: "We pumped dozens of stories about Cuban atrocities, Cuban rapists. We ran fake photographs that made every paper in the country. It was pure raw false propaganda to create the illusion of Communists eating babies for breakfast."
"I wanted to interpret a hymn to the triumph of the soul over life. . .Rudolf Maté, who manned the camera, understood the demands of psychological drama in the close-ups and he gave me what I wanted, my feeling and my thought: realized mysticism." https://t.co/F4A7MyfLpu
The White House is whipping against Bernie Sanders Yemen war powers resolution, urging a no vote this evening, sources involved tell me https://t.co/SfftPmSK3c
“I don't care how much theory you got, if it don't have any practice applied to it, then that theory happens to be irrelevant.”
The FBI and Chicago PD murdered Black Panther chairman Fred Hampton in his sleep on this day in 1969. He was only 21 years old.
Hey folks! A couple of friends have started a school lunch program paying off debts before Christmas. If you can and want here’s the venmo they’re paying through!
BREAKING: A federal judge blocked Title 42, a Trump-era policy that used the pandemic to deny people basic rights to claim asylum.
Trump used it to deport over 400,000 people. President Biden has used it to expel over 4 times that amount, about 1.6 million people.
Nov 12 1969 - Seymour Hersh breaks the story of the March 1968 US massacre of over 100 civilians in the Vietnamese village of My Lai. https://t.co/TxtZNVaRkJ
BREAKING NEWS: Mutulu Shakur, movement veteran, member of the Black Liberation Army, stepfather of Tupac Shakur, was paroled & will be released after 36 years behind bars, to spend his final days outside of prison walls. Mutulu has been diagnosed w/ terminal cancer. Free Em All
We tried to get this passed in Virginia in 2020. It was killed in committee, and one of the Dems who killed it explained that the budgetary impact of abolishing prison slavery would be too high. In June, the California Dems rejected an anti-slavery proposal for the same reason.
Today marks the 66th anniversary of the #KafrQasim massacre, where Israeli border patrol murdered 49 unsuspecting Palestinian villagers on the eve of the 1956 war.