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Police action at Trump anti-inauguration protests set grim tone for press freedom

| January 26, 2017

A snap decision by frontline police officers in Washington, D.C. on Inauguration Day led to an altercation between supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump and masked protesters. The riots culminated in the breaking of windows and burning of a limousine which became a symbol for resistance to the reactionary agenda of the incoming administration.

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The revolution is messy and incomplete. But last weekend, it was born.

"Get a job!" jeered a dude donning a red "Make America Great Again" hat in the passenger's seat of a taxi driving down U Street. We were sitting on the sidewalk queuing for Jacobin Magazine's "Anti-Inauguration" event on the evening of January 20.

Half-focussed on a game we had begun playing to distract us from the brick sidewalk pressing against our thighs, we looked up to briefly lock eyes with the guy in the taxi. None of us could muster a response. We blinked. The taxi disappeared down 13th Street.

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W.H. Auden's poetry resonates on Trump's inauguration day

How did Auden (W.H.) get it so right? He died in 1973, but his lines come to mind during the 21st century's most wracked moments.

Sept. 1, 1939, was written around that date from "one of the dives/ On Fifty-second Street" in New York, at the end of "a low dishonest decade," the 1930s. It included the Great Depression and the global spread of fascism, with World War Two just ahead. Fair enough, he was there.

But on Sept. 11, 2001, with Auden long dead, his poem seemed to rise from the rubble in Manhattan -- reprinted, quoted, viral etc. That was at the end of a proud, boastful decade, which followed the Soviet Union's demise, with smug Western declarations of victory and much reaping of economic spoils.

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Resistance, to the inauguration and beyond

January 17, 2017

| March, strike and flood the streets are three plans for resisting the inauguration. On this show, many voices say (and sing) why and how they have resisted and plan to resist.

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Economic denial and Santa Claus

In economic denial: This past Christmas, I watched some kids, circa 10 years old, face the test of the collapsing Santa myth. Many parents feel anxious over this. They fear it will blight their kids' mental health, or already has, but are unsure what to say. My own sense is that kids, if encouraged to deal with the issue themselves, handle it well. It becomes a kind of lab on how to deal with doubts and myths to come, without falling into cynicism or rage. They can calmly move on or, perhaps, retain Santa as a sort of metaphor. So it helps confirm their ability to manage life's inevitable review processes.

Contrast this with the elite and media responses to the collapse of the "unfettered free markets" myth. Former U.S.

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A long train ride

It started with a train ride. Barack Obama rode to Washington, D.C., for his presidential inauguration on a whistle-stop tour. "To the children who hear the whistle of the train and dream of a better life - that's who we're fighting for," Obama said along the tour, which was compared to the train ride taken by Abraham Lincoln from Springfield, Ill., to Washington, D.C., in February 1861, en route to his first inauguration.

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Breaking news - in half

The image is soft, colour-shifted and shot through a dirty ferry window. In the background, the pink-tinged New York skyline; in the foreground, dozens of passengers huddle on the slick wing of a U.S. Airways airplane as it sinks into the cold Hudson River. The photograph, one of the first broadcast from the remarkable crash site, was taken by Florida businessman Janis Krums, who just happened to have his iPhone handy.

Another image, equally soft, equally muted. From Toronto this time - the Israeli consulate. Seven women chant in a circle, refusing to end their occupation until Israeli leaves Gaza. The image was shot by Canadian activist Judy Rebick, who just happened to have her Blackberry and a connection to her email and Facebook account.

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Countdown to change...or more of the same

In less than a week what is possibly the worst administration that the United States has ever had will be over. George W. Bush and his radical, regressive cronies will be packing their bags and turning control of the country over to a new, more rational regime. The question remains, will things change much. Aside from the faltering economy they probably won't get much worse in the short term. On the other hand, because of the nature of the society, they probably won't get much better, either, at least not from a socially and environmentally responsible point of view.

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