9/27 National Meeting: Stand with Gaza and the Occupied West Bank

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https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/aEUg0LS2QsGqsHiu-CPnXQ

Contact Congress: Take Action on Superintelligence

An urgent message from ControlAI:

Just days ago a 27-year-old researcher resigned from Anthropic, one of the world’s largest AI companies, and said, in public, that the leading companies are “racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.” The people building these systems, he said, privately believe the technology could kill everyone on earth before this decade is out. Hours later, Anthropic’s own head of alignment science agreed with him in writing, and put the risk of AI killing every human being at better than one in ten.                          Contact Congress                                              Our politicians have been asleep at the wheel. This race has been running for years and only now are they waking up. Members in both parties spent this week demanding action, but that will not hold without you holding them to their newfound concern. So tell yours what you expect of them, ask that they: 1. Speak publicly in support of legislation. 2. Push for hearings on superintelligence. 3. Take a briefing from ControlAI, so they understand just how dangerous this technology is. We have written the message for you. Read it, add your name and address, and send it. Message your reps

Andrea Motti Executive Director, ControlAI

 

National Tall Hall: Declaration of Independence from the Medical-Industrial Complex

https://nationalsinglepayer.com/declaration-of-independence/ 

Coming up 10/14/2026:

 

A NATIONAL VIRTUAL TOWN HALL

On this 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, we declare it is time for the people to rise up, organize, take control of the health care system, and run it in the interest of the public instead of in the interest of profit. It’s time for comprehensive, universal, national Medicare for All, free from profit!

  

Skyrocketing health insurance premiums, deductibles, copays, and denials, and crushing medical debt are overwhelming millions of Americans while expired ACA tax credits, life-threatening cuts to Medicaid, and rising health care costs deepen uncertainty for families. The closure of rural hospitals will put millions of rural residents at risk.

Historic public support for a national health program, free from insurance companies and financed through progressive taxes, presents us with a new opening for National Improved Medicare for All, free from profit, guaranteeing coverage for everyone, permanently resolving these crises, lowering costs, and ending medical debt.

Instead, policymakers continue to offer half-measures: meaningless proposals that prop up the ACA, deadly high-deductible junk insurance, and misleading schemes like “Medicare by Choice.” A profit-driven system cannot be repaired with incremental fixes. We have the hard facts from a century of failed attempts to prove it.

Let’s not miss this unique opportunity to achieve national single payer.

The time is now to:

Declare our independence from the U.S. medical-industrial complex: insurance companies and middlemen sucking public dollars, pharmaceutical companies holding us hostage, private equity and venture capital owning the delivery of care, profit-generating “nonprofit” health and hospital systems, compromised academic centers and endowed nonprofit organizations, and all politicians who accept political contributions to work for the industry instead of for the people.

After our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury, we:

Demand that our government recognize health care as a human right.

Demand the elimination of private health insurance and the banning of for-profit delivery of care.   

Demand the enactment of a publicly financed, national single payer program that provides comprehensive coverage to everyone from cradle to grave and the passage of improved H.R 3069 Medicare for All, free from profit.

Demand that health care delivery be transformed from profit-seeking ventures into services organized to serve the people of our country, a system in which all caregivers are freed from corporate control.

If you wish to sign this Declaration as an individual, please click here. If you wish to sign this Declaration as an authorized representative of an organization, please click here. We will forward your signed Declaration to your elected officials and candidates running for office. 

On October 14 at 8 pm Eastern, join NSP, elected officials, and candidates in a virtual National Town Hall, as we declare our independence from the medical-industrial complex and demand the passage of improved H.R. 3069 (119th Congress), a comprehensive, universal, national Medicare for All, free from profit.

We will not settle for less.

 

 

 

Online Reading Group: What is the Left? -- What is Marxism?

 

Platypus Philadelphia
What is the Left? -- What is Marxism? 

Monday, 7 PM EST
September 7, 2026
Online meet (Collaborative with Platypus Boston!)
 

 

To be radical is to go to the root of the matter. For man, however, the root is man himself.
— Marx, Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right (1843)

Whoever dares undertake to establish a people’s institutions must feel himself capable of changing, as it were, human nature, of transforming each individual, who by himself is a complete and solitary whole, into a part of a larger whole, from which, in a sense, the individual receives his life and his being, of substituting a limited and mental existence for the physical and independent existence. He has to take from man his own powers, and give him in exchange alien powers which he cannot employ without the help of other men.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, On the Social Contract (1762)

(• required / + recommended reading)

 • Max Horkheimer, "The little man and the philosophy of freedom" (1926–31)
• epigraphs on modern history and freedom by James Miller (on Jean-Jacques Rousseau), Louis Menand (on Marx and Engels), Karl Marx, on "becoming" (from the Grundrisse, 1857–58), and Peter Preuss (on history)
+ Rainer Maria Rilke, "Archaic Torso of Apollo" (1908)
+ Robert Pippin, "On Critical Theory" (2004)
+ Being and becoming (freedom in transformation) chart of terms
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (1754) PDFs of preferred translation (5 parts): [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
+ Capital in history timeline and chart of terms
• Rousseau, selection from On the Social Contract (1762) [on freedom and alienation]