On Sunday, after President Barack Obama landed in Cuba, a video surreptitiously shot from a Central Havana rooftop showed his motorcade making its way through the mostly wet, empty streets, then stopping to let him out at the exclusive Paladar San Cristóbal. That’s when a curious thing happens: The Cubans on the rooftops—including the now shaky camera operator—start screaming, “Obama! Obama!”
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Recent protests against Donald Trump, particularly in Chicago, where he decided to cancel a rally after protesters massed inside and outside of the University of Illinois-Chicago, have led to a great deal of debate (and handwringing) by progressives about free speech. Those debates are worth having, but they risk distracting from a more important fact: Since he announced his campaign in June 2015, Donald Trump has been waging a subtle war against the First Amendment.
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This post originally appeared on Waging Nonviolence.
Montana communities won a victory against one of the world’s biggest coal companies earlier this month, when Arch Coal abandoned the Otter Creek mine—the largest proposed new coal strip mine in North America. The story of how the project imploded is one of people power triumphing over a company once thought to be nearly invincible.
To many observers, the Otter Creek project once seemed unstoppable. It certainly appeared that way in 2011... Читать дальше...