Some upcoming events are posted at: durhamspark.blogspot.com/2026/08/some-anti-war-and-other-events-and-news.html , durhamspark.blogspot.com/2026/06/some-astronomical-and-other-events.html , durhamspark.blogspot.com/2026/04/update-for-week-16-of-2026-palestinian.html , and durhamspark.blogspot.com/2026/04/update-for-week-15-of-2026-anti-war.html ; some anniversaries are posted at: durhamspark.blogspot.com/2024/08/summer-came-in-with-buzz-and-whirr-goes.html , durhamspark.blogspot.com/2025/07/deep-river-riverkeeper-founded-upcoming.html , durhamspark.blogspot.com/2024/04/some-additional-events-and.html , etc.
Volume 8, number 2 of Towards Marxist-Leninist Unity: A Journal of Discussion and Debate was published by the evening of Saturday, August 22nd and will be posted at: mltranslations.net Contributions and criticisms are welcome, they say. The next issue should come out in October and materials will need to be sent in by mid-September.
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[From the NLG September 2nd –
HAPPENING NOW: NLG President Speaks to Congress
Dear [ ], Suzanne Adely, NLG President, is currently speaking to Congress about the blockade against Cuba, and the current crisis facing the Cuban people because of increased U.S. aggression. The live stream is scheduled from 12:30 P.M. EST to 2 P.M. EST. Click here to watch the live stream of the hearing! The NLG was invited to speak by Americas Without Sanctions, as a part of a congressional hearing on Cuba, led by Congresswomen Delia Ramírez and Ilhan Omar. Later today, there will be a press conference and public event about the hearing at St. Stephen and the Incarnation church, 1525 Newton St. NW, Washington, DC 20010, at 5 P.M. EST. Local NLG members and non-members are encouraged to attend! In solidarity, |
[There was a G20 (financial?) meeting in Asheville, NC recently and a side meeting on technology has been going at the Carolina Inn at UNC-Chapel Hill the week of September 1st. Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg were in attendance. WRAL says that there will be or was a march by students from the Old Well (?) on Cameron Avenue, opposite the administrative South Building, to the venue in the afternoon on September 2nd, protesting against "AI" and its impact on higher education.
WRAL also reported that a Love Island Reunion (?) watch party organized by student groups in UNC's Greenlaw Hall, just north of the Undergraduate Library, was disrupted by a man (alleged to have been Keegan Carlisle Wilson) yelling "slurs" and armed with a flammable aerosol can and a lighter one night recently (Monday, August 31st?). WRAL got comments from the BSM and the UNC chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers.]
[Venus and the relatively bright star Spica in the constellation Virgo were about 1 1/2 degrees apart in the west after sunset on September 1st.
The waning but still very bright (60 percent full) Moon will appear to be very close to the Pleiades star cluster (M45) in the constellation Taurus early on September 3rd the 13th; from Alaska and nearby regions of Russia and Canada the Moon will occlude some of the Pleiades. Binoculars are recommended. There will be another Moon-Pleiades conjunction (about 5 1/2 degrees apart) September 30th, this time in the evening, but the Americas won't have a good view (?).
The Moon, Mars, Gemini, and Jupiter will appear together in the east before dawn on the 7th.
The Moon and Jupiter will be about 3 1/2 degrees apart early on the 8th and closing, with a daytime occultation visible over Iceland, Greenland, Alaska, and most of Canada, the US (but not from the Southwest and West Coast?), and the Caribbean (but a telescope is required). It will begin around 3-3:30pm here, but around 1pm from the Mountain states. There will be monthly occultations to May 2027, but only the occultations in September (the 1st) and October will be visible for North America. – from the September issue of Sky & Telescope magazine.]
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