Readers’ Views: January-February 2017, Part I

January 31, 2017

Readers’ Views on: environmental and social crises; Martin Luther King Day; healthcare crisis, Donald Trump and the election; brutal “justice”; and who reads News & Letters.

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Alerts & Appeals

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Chicago meeting: WOMEN’S LIBERATION AS RESISTANCE AND AS REVOLUTIONARY FORCE AND REASON
How can hearing the ideas of women’s liberation and the philosophy of human liberation enable the movement’s reorientation? How can the humanism that shone forth from the Women’s Marches help ...
Bolivia’s extreme right consolidates power
Important human forces in Bolivia are strongly opposing the threat of a developing fascism, and at the same time have not shied away from criticizing the contradictions of Evo Morales’s ...
L.A. students march for DACA
On Nov. 12, a thousand DACA (Delayed Action Childhood Arrival program) students, known as Dreamers, and their supporters walked out of class and marched to the Roybal Federal Building downtown ...

Events

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Chicago meeting: WOMEN’S LIBERATION AS RESISTANCE AND AS REVOLUTIONARY FORCE AND REASON
How can hearing the ideas of women’s liberation and the philosophy of human liberation enable the movement’s reorientation? How can the humanism that shone forth from the Women’s Marches help ...
Chicago meeting: THE SYRIAN REVOLUTION OF FREEDOM AND DIGNITY VS. COUNTER-REVOLUTION AS TEST OF WORLD POLITICS
We will discuss not just the needed critique to those on the Left who defend Bashar al-Assad, but also the pragmatic philosophy that underlies the broader Left. The resulting search ...
Chicago meeting: CLIMATE, CAPITALISM, AND SOCIALISM
WHEN: Wednesday, October 23, 6:30 pm
WHERE: News and Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash Ave., Room 230, Chicago

The movements around climate are the source of some of the most ...

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