Culture
Poetry selections for the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre
August 16, 2019Percy Bysshe Shelley’s lifetime was defined by the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, and severe political repression in England and elsewhere in Europe.
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Outrageous hilarity of ‘The Producers’ a critique of capitalist fraud
August 15, 2019I haven’t heard it lately as part of Bernie Sanders’s current shtick, but I distinctly recall him saying in his last presidential run that “Fraud is the business model of Wall Street.”
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400th Anniversary Anti-Slavery Cinema Commemoration in Los Angeles
August 14, 2019The 400th Anniversary Anti-Slavery Cinema Commemoration takes place from 12:00 noon to 10:00 pm, on Sun., Aug. 25, at the Los Angeles Workers Center.
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‘A is for Activist’ introduces toddlers to people and ideas on the left
August 12, 2019Imagine my surprise when I opened a 5.5-inch square children’s board book at the home of my niece and her husband and my grandnieces and found myself on virtually every page!
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‘I Am My Own Mother’ shows finding birth families an awkward business
August 9, 2019Esther would need to live with the realization that what she could not get from her birth mother she already had within her.
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