5LL #156 - India Walton, Jubilees, Donald Rumsfeld, Utilities, Musicians

India Walton Is a Sign of What the Socialist Movement Could Become
Gabriel Winant, Jacobin
India Walton’s victory in Buffalo is an enormous advance. With a clear political strategy, the socialist movement could become less dominated by professionals and more driven by the working-class base it requires.
Make Americans' Crushing Debt Disappear
Astra Taylor, The New York Times
The time has come to revive the Jubilee — which in the modern era would mean the erasure of debts and a democratic rebalancing of power between regular people and elites.
The Hell Donald Rumsfeld Built
Sarah Jones, New York Magazine
It is impossible to fathom what and where we would be without the wars that Rumsfeld orchestrated, and equally impossible to tell what we’ve gained.
Parliaments of the Earth
R. K. Upadhya, Logic
The building blocks of the zero-carbon commonwealth are hiding in plain sight.
And the Band Plays On
Lee Cyphers, Spectre
Manufacturing patriotism through U.S. military bands.
Split a donation between 70+ community bail funds, mutual aid funds, and racial justice organizers
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