The colourful cover of “Barrelling Forward” by Eva Crocker should catch your eye – a flag that should really prompt you to cracking the cover. Crocker lines up a series of short stories as fresh and raw as each other, where characters collide, run, struggle and continue to move ahead in the normal and sometimes mundane adventure called life. “Barrelling Forward” is a great read worth keeping close and reading slowly.
Il y a peu de personnages aussi connus et reconnus que l'Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche. Le classique de Miguel de Cervantes expose les contes, ou plutôt les péripéties, de ce prétendu chevalier et de son loyal écuyer dans l'Espagne médiévale. Satirique, pédant et drôle du début à la fin, Don Quichotte est l'un de ces classiques dont la lecture (ou la relecture) est un vrai plaisir.
The centre-left failed in getting rid of the so-called blue-blue government at the parliamentary elections in Norway on 11 September. The Labour Party was the main loser, while small parties on the centre-left advanced slightly. However, the parliamentary basis of the right-wing government has started to unravel. A deeper political crisis may be looming in the background, while social contradictions are on the raise. Social Democracy followed the general European downward tendency (except Britain).
'At least 150 people were evacuated, many with severe dehydration and other heat-related symptoms. We speak with Dale Ewart, vice president of 1199SEIU, the United Healthcare Workers East union. We also speak with Stephen Hobbs, a reporter for the Sun Sentinel who has been covering the eight deaths.'
'AMY GOODMAN: To look more at the antifascist movement, known as antifa, we're joined by Mark Bray, lecturer at Dartmouth College. His new book, Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook. First, pronounce it for us, Mark, and then talk about antifa. MARK BRAY: Yes, well, it's pronounced on'-tee-fah. The emphasis is on the first syllable, and it's pronounced more on than an, so on'-tee-fah. It's commonly mispronounced. But antifa, of course, is short for antifascist.'
The Q&A portion is worth watching.
'[T]he Speaker of the thirty-third Guam legislature said that the most acute threat to the legitimate exercise of the decolonization of Guam was the incessant militarization of the island by its administering Power, a new wave of which its people were currently facing. She indicated that, in an official record of decision issued in August 2015, the United States military had laid out a detailed plan for military build-up allowing for the construction of military bases, the relocation of 5,000 United States marines to Guam and other steps.'
'Chairman Mendoza, I respectfully remind the Committee to follow through with the resolutions it has passed throughout the decades. The people of Guam are still hopeful this issue will become reality and it is only right that Guam and the other remaining territories exercise this inalienable right to self-determination, something we all should have done long ago.'
'While President Trump's ban on transgender people from military service has been widely criticized even by fellow Republicans, it has reignited a debate within the LGBT community. Some have questioned whether the discourse on transgender rights should be broadened to include a critique of militarism.'
