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Goodman and Moynihan report each week on the people and places caught in the middle, the ones most directly affected by policy debates, war and social issues. The column breaks through the glib clichés, dogmatic language and overall static that has permeated mainstream media coverage. Goodman and Moynihan’s unrestrained commentary from the front lines resonates with a generation that has an uncanny ability to spot the inauthentic in any discourse. The energy and passion for the truth found i ...
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By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanSchool shootings are recurring markers of a societal sickness, an unshakeable acceptance of violence and senseless death. The murder of two fourteen-year-old students and two teachers on Wednesday, and the wounding of nine others, at a mass shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, is the latest in this se…
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By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanThe “Party of Lincoln,” as Republicans call themselves, seems intent on undermining just about everything President Abraham Lincoln lived and died for. This includes Republican efforts to upend the way elections are run, by restricting who gets to vote, how voting is conducted and how votes are counted and certified. …
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By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanThis week’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago has been a four-sday event designed to build momentum to propel Vice President Kamala Harris to the presidency. Many of the delegates at the convention from throughout the Democratic Party’s “Big Tent,” from Arab Americans to African Americans to Jewish Americans t…
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By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanDonald Trump was “interviewed” this week on the X social media platform formerly known as Twitter. The interviewer was none other than X owner Elon Musk. Musk’s questions to Trump were so deferential that End Citizens United, an election watchdog group, quickly filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission, …
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By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan“When we got off the bus, a soldier said to us: ‘Welcome to hell.’” Those are the words of 45 year-old Fouad Hassan, a father of five from Nablus in the occupied West Bank, who was recently held in Israel’s Megiddo Prison. His words open a devastating report from the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem, exposing Israe…
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By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanJuly has come and gone, a month that sent shockwaves through the U.S. political landscape. The month was bookended, as well, by events that signify both remarkable progress and the ongoing peril of being a Black woman in America. Progress, as Kamala Harris became the first Black woman and the first person of South Asi…
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By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanIn a solemn Oval Office address Wednesday night, President Joe Biden explained his reasons for ending his reelection bid and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris to replace him. The speech capped a historic two weeks, with Harris catapulted to the likely nomination after Biden’s surprise announcement on Sunday.On th…
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The Republican National Convention here in Milwaukee seems very far away from Ripon, Wisconsin. the birthplace of the Republican Party. As one approaches the RNC, inside the heavily guarded, temporary steel wall erected around Milwaukee’s downtown as part of this so-called National Special Security Event, one encounters a side street next to Media …
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Israel struck just outside a school in Gaza on Tuesday, killing at least 29 people sheltering there and injuring dozens more. The moment the bomb exploded was captured on video by someone recording a youth soccer game in the Al-Awda school courtyard. The soccer ball was midair when the bomb exploded. The New York Times, using Reuters footage, ident…
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By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanIn the final day of its term Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its opinion in the case of Donald Trump v. United States. By a 6-3 partisan vote, the court granted the former president immunity for “official” acts he committed while in office, as he seeks to avoid prosecution for attempting to subvert the 2020…
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Julian Assange is free.After a 14-year legal ordeal including over five years in Britain’s harsh, maximum security Belmarsh Prison, the founder of the whistleblower website Wikileaks agreed to a deal with the United States, pleading guilty to a single felony count of obtaining and disclosing national security material. His sentence: Time served.Ass…
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By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanTwo consecutive federal holidays – Juneteenth and Independence Day – highlight the sweep of American history, marking the birth of the nation on July 4th and, on June 19th, the liberation of the last group of enslaved people in the US, at the end of a devastating civil war.Independence Day commemorates the day in 1776…
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By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan“Work all night on a drink of rumDaylight come and me wan’ go homeStack banana till de morning comeDaylight come and me wan’ go homeCome, Mister tally man, tally me bananaDaylight come and me wan’ go home”The song “Day-O (Banana Boat Song),” made famous by the late, great performer and civil rights activist Harry Bela…
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By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanGaza, the most densely-populated place on Earth, described as “the world’s largest open-air prison,” has become a hellish cauldron of human suffering. Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are entering their ninth month of an unprecedented military onslaught that has killed over 36,500 people, including at least 15,000 child…
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By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanIsrael’s ongoing bombardment and ground invasion of Gaza, now nearing its ninth month, has provoked unprecedented global outcry. On May 24th, the International Court of Justice, after an emergency hearing in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel, ordered Israel to halt its attack on Rafah. In a statement publish…
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By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanIsrael’s assault on Gaza has provoked protests around the globe, including in the United States. While attention lately has focused on college campuses, another protest movement has emerged: dissenters within the U.S. government, who offer a behind-the-scenes critique of U.S. policies that are devastating Gaza. Despit…
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By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanPalestinians and allies marked the 76th anniversary of the Nakba, May 15th – the day after the state of Israel was formally declared. “Nakba” is Arabic for “catastrophe,” and is used to describe the murder, dispossession and forced displacement Palestinians suffered in the years up to and including 1948. As many as 90…
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By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanWhat if universities negotiated with students engaged in Gaza solidarity protests, instead of calling the police to violently arrest them? A mass movement opposing Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza has spread like wildfire this Spring. Student organizers have issued demands ranging from university divestment from compa…
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By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanWorld Press Freedom Day comes this week amidst Gaza solidarity protests on campuses across the United States. In a democratic society, protests and the press are intimately linked. Desperate to clamp down on the growing movement, university administrations and police are increasingly restricting or outright banning th…
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By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan“What starts here changes the world. It starts with you and what you do each day.” So reads an encouraging sign that greets students at the University of Texas–Austin. The university’s actions tell a different story. A photo shared on social media this week shows the sign in front of a row of state troopers in riot ge…
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Why is it that we are celebrating 2017 when the sphinx are dated at least 4000 years earlier than our AD began? What is the future of theAfrican image?Oleh Sound barrier by Mau Mau Collective
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Candice Antique, Hodari Davis and GP ROWDIX feature on this episode with sound bites to do with Beauty. Especially for the African or black communities.https://www.facebook.com/maumaucollectiveOleh Sound barrier by Mau Mau Collective
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The first of a series of episodes from the East African Builders Collective meeting in July 2017 along with the Nappy Tour.Thanks to Bavubuka, Candice Antique and Hodari, GP ROWDIX and Hustlajay MAU MAUOleh Sound barrier by Mau Mau Collective
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Full episode, sorry for the clipped previous one. Here is some work from Koleka Putuma recorded live from her launch of Collective Amnesia in Nairobi.Oleh Sound barrier by Mau Mau Collective
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As our first episode we introduce to you Koleka Putuma, a South African poet who echoes our sentiments about the the African narrative. Find more from her on cocoputuma.wordpress.com or @Kolekaputuma on instagram.Oleh Sound barrier by Mau Mau Collective
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