5LL #215 - Abortion, Baseball, Chile, Weed, Godard

The Next Abortion Strategy
Sarah Leonard, Lux
While pro-choice politics collapsed, organizers took a different approach.
Inside the Drive: The Minor Leaguers Who Sprung a Union on MLB
Emma Baccellieri, Sports Illustrated
Players were already fuming over their treatment. Enter a motley crew of career minor leaguers with a plan.
Pinochet’s Long Shadow
Sammy Feldblum, The Baffler
Chile’s voters reject a forward-looking constitution.
Don’t Just Legalize Weed. End Marijuana Prohibition.
Malcolm Harris, New York
When future generations look back at this era, they’ll see this as the second of two in a set of prohibitions coming to an end.
Socialists Should Watch the Films of Jean-Luc Godard
Daniel Fairfax, Jacobin
Director Jean-Luc Godard has died at the age of 91. Many of his films explore the struggles of the post-’68 period — but even his less explicitly political work provides a utopian message of creative freedom.
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