Carol Fenton

The Librarians | Book Policies Documentary | Independent Lens The Librarians follows librarians and citizens responding to restrictions on library content across the United States.

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Portland-based filmmaker has new documentary centering on local doctor’s experience in Gaza We’re joined by filmmaker Jan Haaken and OHSU doctor Travis Melin who share more about making the documentary and what effect they hope the stories in the film will have.

Portland filmmaker Jan Haaken has a new short documentary called “SUMUD: A doctor’s report on genocide and survival in Gaza.” “Sumud” in Arabic means “steadfast perseverance.” www.opb.org/article/2026...

How Portland’s arts tax let $9M go unused for years As Portlanders gear up to once again pay their arts tax by April 15, even supporters say the voter-approved charge needs an overhaul.

“Maybe it’s not a big deal for the city. But for some of these organizations, $10,000 is the difference between keeping a staff person or staying open, and certainly $8.5 million more than fills that gap.” #Portland www.opb.org/article/2026...

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility 💔💔

In Boston ICE randomly pulled over this huge white Irish guy with a Mass drivers license, 20 years in the states, legal status, pending green card and have held him for 5 months, his citizen wife paid a $4k bond that was ignored(!) ICE forged his signature on deportation agreement, no appeal

The antis take everything and use it to make money.

Totalitarian heartbreak 💔

A Historically BLACK University cannot say Black.
A Historically BLACK University cannot say Black.
A HISTORICALLY BLACK UNIVERSITY cannot say Black.

I am there Monday afternoons, Tuesday, some Thursdays and often on Saturday morning

Do you volunteer there?

Beyond sad that this ice rink will be destroyed. Three generations of kids in my family have skated here. 😢

Such a great sunrise this morning 😍

As US block of oil supply deepens energy crisis, Cubans ask: What more can we sacrifice? Cubans on Friday are facing a worsening crisis as U.S. efforts to block oil supplies take a toll. On Thursday, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel warned of further hardships, leaving many anxious about...

Good article on the misery that the US is inflicting on everyday people in Cuba. What Trump is doing is just an intensification of six decades of US economic warfare. apnews.com/article/cuba...

New York Times profiled anti-abortion activist on her take on feminism

She is Lila Rose, a 20-year-old UCLA history major with a little voice and a bold plan to expose what she and many abortion foes see as Planned Parenthood's wrongdoings. Since 2006, Rose has orchestrated undercover "stings" at Planned Parenthood clinics in Los Angeles, Indianapolis, Bloomington, Tucson, Phoenix and Memphis.

Awesome job, NY TIMES profiling Lila Rose, who got her start doing fkery with James O’Keefe of project veritas

I've been thinking about this ALL week long. Damn!

cops: sex trafficking victims are impossible to find! most of them don’t even know they’ve been trafficked.
dozens of women over decades: here’s our sworn statements about jeff epstein
cops: …
prosecutors: …
anti-trafficking task forces: …
cops: we have no choice but to do a craigslist sting

cannot possibly convey how actually crazy-making it can feel, after spending 20 years monitoring all these orgs blaming sex workers and the internet for enabling a vast sex trafficking network, to now see Jeffery Epstein’s inbox

FFS! Mailman interned for Sam Brownback.

Meet the mastermind behind Trump’s definition of "woman" May Mailman’s anti-trans crusade could threaten gender equality for all.

“The administration is telling us what their long game is, which is to treat women’s bodies as commodities and to create laws to exert control over these commodities.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Damn!

Wild that it’s gone completely under the radar that a historic Black church was targeted by ICE days after holding an anti-ICE press conference with two U.S. Representatives and there hasn’t been a single article on it.

Great to see this getting national attention, and worth reading to see how the union is supporting Maria.

Watch the moment a Greenland sled dog steals AP camera When a 360 degree camera went missing during a shoot in the Arctic circle, the AP crew eventually found it among sled dogs they'd been filming with earlier.

😂😂😂 apnews.com/video/canine...

Of course it's Paxton.

CA human trafficking crackdown leads to 600 arrests and 170 victims rescued, including children A week-long statewide crackdown on human trafficking resulted in more than 600 arrests and the rescue of 170 people, including children as young as 13.

Anti–sex trafficking stings and laws are not neutral. They frequently harm sex workers and survivors. Police and organizations like “Saving Innocence” often worsen conditions instead of providing safety or support. abc7.com/post/califor...

Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist - Mississippi Today Among anticipated changes to a new visitor brochure for the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument is no longer using "racist" to describe the killer of the civil rights leader.

Civil rights activist Medgar Evers was shot in the back by a Klansman in 1963.

The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from Evers' museum and reportedly plans to remove references that call his murderer a “racist"

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As @jeffsharlet.bsky.social documented in The Family, honoring brutal right wing dictators from around the world has been a National Prayer Breakfast tradition since the 1980s.

YouTube video by FifthDimensionVEVO The 5th Dimension - Aquarius / Let the Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures) (Audio)

This song reminds me of my childhood. I would put together roller skating routines to it. Rest in Power LaMonte McLemore

"Open up your heart and let it shine on in" www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlrQ...

I just love that song.