People Powered News features headlines recapping the week’s events here in Philadelphia and COVID-19 information. Tonight, PPN speaks with Heeyoon Won of Baking for Mutual Aid, Executive Director of the New Pennsylvania Project Kadida Kenner and writer/activist Ted Kelly.

June 8, 2021 - People Powered News

In this public News Brief, we discuss a recent advice column in the New York Times advocating upwardly mobile professionals dump their fat and depressed friends and how it's part of a much broader trend of pop sociology repackaging cruelty and soft eugenics as "science-driven" self improvement.

News Brief: The Casual Soft Eugenics of Self-Help "Friendscaping" Content

Mpho Masemola is Secretary General of the Ex Political Prisoner's Veterans Association of South Africa (EPPA) and was an underground guerrilla fighter as a member of the Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the military wing of the African National Congress. He was a political prisoner Pollsmoor Prison, where he was incarcerated along with Nelson Mandela, and later at Robben Island. Masemola was one of ten signatories of the International Delegation to the 2021 Syrian Presidential Election (bit.ly/syria2021). He lives in Johannesburg, South Africa.

This interview was recorded on June 16th, 45th anniversary of the 1976 Soweto uprising, when 20,000 Black students protested white supremacist schooling policies in Apartheid South Africa.

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Dr. Amal Wahdan is the founder and editor of the Arab Gazette and an organizer for One Democratic State of Palestine (odspal.net). She lives in Ramallah, where she recorded her part of this conversation on July 14th.

Dr. Wahdan and Teddie Kelly were both members of the International Delegation to the 2021 Syrian Presidential Election. bit.ly/syria2021

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"We are bonded" - Dr. Amal Wahdan on International Solidarity in the 21st Century

Daniel Kovalik is a professor of International Human Rights at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. His most recent book is entitled, "No More War: How the West Violates International Law by Using 'Humanitarian' Intervention to Advance Economic and Strategic Interests" www.simonandschuster.com/books/No-Mor…781510755291

His most recent article is entitled, "I’ve seen for myself the horrific toll Western sanctions are having on the people of Syria and Lebanon." www.rt.com/op-ed/534711-wester…tion-syria-lebanon/

Dan and Teddie were both members of the International Delegation to the 2021 Syrian Presidential Election. bit.ly/syria2021

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"The world is actually getting much bigger" - Dan Kovalik on sanctions and human rights

The startup sounds from Windows 95 to Windows Vista, played back at 4000% of their original duration.

Published to mark the occasion of the 20th birthday of Windows 95. Happy birthday, Windows 95.

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www.erase.net/weblog/2015-08/win…sounds-slowed-4000

Read more about the composers responsible for these iconic sounds:
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Windows 95 Startup Sound (slowed 4000%)

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