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PBS North Carolina Presents | Our Movement Starts Here | Season 2025 Learn how the environmental justice movement was born in Warren County, NC.

and documentary link here: www.pbs.org/video/our-mo...

“The Right to Enjoy the Planet On Equal Terms”: Warren County Marks 42 Years Since Landmark Landfill Protests Talking with NC filmmaker John Finley Rash about “Our Movement Starts Here,” a new documentary that explores the Warren County protests.

just learned that “Our Movement Starts Here” — an eye-opening documentary about 1972’s Warren County landfill protests & the birth of the environmental justice movement — is now available on PBS!

here’s my interview with the filmmakers from last year: indyweek.com/culture/scre...

UNC Reinstates Suspended Professor Following Investigation, Threat of Legal Action Following an investigation and threats of legal action, UNC-Chapel Hill reinstated Dixon to his position Friday morning/

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“Read and hold the testimonies of these queer people with care and understanding. Queer people are in a fight for their lives against fascism. Your resistance and disruption may make the difference in how the fight goes." - Desmera Gatewood in @indyweek.bsky.social

Italy's largest union, with over 5.5 million workers, has called a general strike for Friday in solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla.

And smaller Italian unions have said they will join CGIL's general strike.

Final boat of 42-strong pro-Palestinian flotilla intercepted by Israel Protest vessel intercepted in the early hours of Friday morning 42.5 nautical miles from the coast of Gaza

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"Make cities better" may be the best direction for climate action in these grim times. 80% of Americans live in urban areas. Creating neighborhoods with reliable, frequent public transit, protected active transit, and dense, affordable housing could make US cities *so much better to live in* while..

The Tennessee Solution to Disappearing Book Reviews Chapter 16 is one of only a few nonprofit media outlets in the country dedicated to coverage of the arts.

If you are unfamiliar with Chapter 16, please see Casey Cep's write up in the New Yorker: www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

Screenshot from New Yorker interview by Isaac Chotiner with Cass Sunstein

when the interview goes well: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Naomi Klein on How Egypt’s Extinguished Revolution Continues to Inspire Struggle Worldwide You Have Not Yet Been Defeated, a collection from Alaa Abd el-Fattah published this year by Seven Stories Press, is living history. Many of its words were first written with pencil and paper in a c…

Sharing this excerpt from my foreword to Alaa Abd el-Fattah's extraordinary collection of prison writings, "You Have Not Yet Been Defeated."

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“Both the private sector and the public sector need to put their money where their mouth is. They use the arts and culture in Durham to attract talent, companies, investment and wealth .... but the people who are creating that work are struggling to stay here.”

A Fatal Stabbing and Its Aftermath Republicans have made a political cudgel of Iryna Zarutska’s killing. A draft crime bill expected this week may be more posturing than solutions.

Per crime bill draft obtained by @theassemblync.bsky.social, NC lawmakers will seek to restrict cashless bail, speed up executions, and let judges and magistrates hold any defendant in jail without a hearing for up to three days for a mental health eval. #ncpol

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Talking with Bryan Christopher About Student Advocacy and His New Book, “Stopping the Deportation Machine” "Stopping the Deportation Machine" chronicles the story of Wildin Acosta, a undocumented student in Durham, who faced deportation in 2016.

During his first year as adviser to the Riverside High School newspaper, Bryan Christopher oversaw perhaps the biggest story the publication had ever covered: the arrest and months-long detention of a Honduran student, Wildin Acosta, who faced deportation to the country he’d fled at 16.

Tift Merritt, a True North Carolina Gem, Still Has Plenty of Material to Mine This month, Tift Merritt releases a 20th anniversary reissue of "Tambourine," as well as a compilation of demos and unreleased songs.

“The interdisciplinary places in life are where all the good stuff lives," says Tift Merritt.

Screenshot of post on X from VA Secretary Doug Collins. The text reads: @ProPublica is an extreme liberal news outlet that will do anything to make the Trump Administration look bad. But this week, the far-left editors there reached a new low by sending @VernalColeman to stalk @DeptVetAffairs employees at their homes. This creepy behavior will discourage good people from coming to work at VA. @ProPublica, please do better and stop letting your hatred of the Trump Administration continue to warp your judgment.

It's a journalist's job to ask questions of government officials, no matter which party is in power. That often means respectfully knocking on doors to get answers people deserve to know.

Tips and evidence are essential to our nonpartisan work: www.propublica.org/tips/

Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."

Where to Go See Art This Fall Two photojournalism exhibits, a show that draws from Thoreau’s digitized herbarium, and more art to see across the Triangle this season.

I recommended a few shows to go see this fall - five of many exciting ones on the horizon! (Thoreau’s Flowers especially cool) for @indyweek.bsky.social

Can a New Plan Help Wake County Arts Organizations Bridge Funding Gaps? Wake County spends much less on the arts than its peer counties. Leaders hope a new collaborative plan can help chart a new way forward.

“Cultivating Creativity charts this path forward, ensuring every resident can access meaningful cultural experiences in their own community, while positioning Wake County as a leader of artistic innovation and creative excellence,” the plan states.

Arts leaders say the need is dire—and immediate.

Durham Poet Jameela F. Dallis On Grief, Oysters, Art, and the Color Blue Talking with Jameela F. Dallis about her debut poetry collection, "Encounters for the Living and the Dead."

Dallis has been an engaged member of the Durham arts and tarot scenes (among others) for decades, and this collection fulfills a promise to herself: to sell or publish a book by the end of her 40th year.

Jamaica Gilmer's Reverent Portraits Show the Wisdom and Experience of Lyon Park School Alumni "Elders of the West End," Gilmer's series on the graduates of the former Durham school, is now a permanent display at the Community Family Life & Recreation Center at Lyon Park.

I haven't seen this current Jamaica Gilmer exhibit, but a few years ago I saw and wrote about “Elders of the West End,” Gilmer’s series on Lyon Park School alumni - now a permanent display at the Community Family Life & Recreation Center - which wove oral history & photography together.

Photographic Reflections On Memory, Food, and Home In Two Tender Local Exhibitions "Potlucks and Portraits" from Jamaica Gilmer and "(biān) /  (bǐ àn)" from huiyin zhou and Laura Dudu both run through the end of September.

up now online, and in print tomorrow, a beautiful piece by @cultureshockart.bsky.social in @indyweek.bsky.social reflecting on two local exhibitions that tie together memory, home, kinship, and meals through photographs and multimedia work.

thank you! being a florist is my (aspirational and impractical) backup career

picked backyard flowers for my friends courthouse bouquet, i love love

In Sharp Debut “Radical Red,” William F. Buckley's Legacy Meets Body Horror Writer Nathan Dixon's debut, "Radical Red," imagines Tea Party conservatives who find their ideological contradictions collapsing in on them.

Durham writer Nathan Dixon’s short story collection debut, “Radical Red,” imagines Tea Party conservatives who find their ideological contradictions collapsing in on them. It couldn’t be more timely.

Airlines Sell 5 Billion Plane Ticket Records to the Government For Warrantless Searching New documents obtained by 404 Media show how a data broker owned by American Airlines, United, Delta, and many other airlines is selling masses of passenger data to the U.S. government.

New from 404 Media: airlines are selling *5 billion* ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching, per new docs we obtained. ARC is a data broker owned by United, American, Delta, etc. Then sells peoples' travel info to ICE, Secret Service, FBI etc www.404media.co/airlines-sel...

Traditional Sign Painter Joseph Giampino's Elements of Style Joseph Giampino's brush seems to have touched every business sign in Raleigh, from parking garages to city parks.

“I’m a blue-collar craftsman who went to art school,” Giampino says. “I’ve been in art shows, but I don’t consider myself an artist. My brushes are my wrenches.”

"Whatever nuance is needed for its interception, resisting AI’s further creep into intellectual labor will also require blunt-force militancy. The steps are simple. Don’t publish AI bullshit. Don’t even publish mealymouthed essays about the temptation to produce AI bullshit."

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“We were barefoot and muddy and tired, but, we confirmed, alive, alive, alive, alive.”

—In a 2008 essay, published online for the first time, @jesmimi.bsky.social recalls her family’s survival during Hurricane Katrina.

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A black and white image of Abbey Lincoln performing onstage wearing a fancy dress. Her arms are open as she looks up and sings.

“Women drown in their own blood, sweat, or tears, wake up as holograms, and no one reads the audit or autopsy.”

—Harmony Holiday considers the public scope of a musician's career through Abbey Lincoln’s performance at Yoshi’s jazz venue in California.

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