Новости за 04.06.2018

Welcome to Interviews for Resistance. We’re now into the second year of the Trump administration, and the last year has been filled with ups and downs, important victories, successful holding campaigns and painful defeats. We’ve learned a lot, but there is always more to learn, more to be done. In this now-weekly series, we talk with organizers, agitators and educators, not only about how to resist, but how to build a better world.

In December 1948, the New York Times published a letter by 27 American Jewish intellectuals, including Albert Einstein and Hannah Arendt, warning of “the dangers to Israel” posed by the far-right Freedom Party (Herut). The letter described how the party’s militia had killed “most of the inhabitants—240 men, women and children” of the Arab village of Deir Yassin, except for a few that were kept “alive to parade as captives through the streets of Jerusalem.” The signatories denounced Herut leader... Читать дальше...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson moves a bit more deliberately to the microphone these days, slowed by a recently diagnosed case of Parkinson’s disease. His hair is graying and his waistline is expanding. This former lieutenant of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is a well-traveled 76 years old.