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Monthly Archives: June, 2013

The fight for good wages shows need for a new society

In recent months we have seen unprecedented demonstrations by fast food workers, retail workers, and other low-wage workers. These struggles are spread out across...

Why America is “For Sale” The fight for a new world

In a recent movie, a billionaire approached a man and offered him a million dollars to spend the night with his wife. The man...

Operation Green Jobs:Unemployed March to Save Jobs and Save the Planet

On May 18, a group of marchers set out from Philadelphia, PA to march on the US Chamber of Commerce in Washington, DC. “What are the most dire issues we face?” asked march organizers ...

ENGLEWOOD ABANDONED: The Destruction of an American Community

Who is destroying working class communities in America? An article in the Chicago Tribune acknowledges a process used by large banks and financial institutions like Bank of ...

Mexico: Brutal Violence against Migrants

Our sisters and brothers who are Central and South American migrants are cruelly slaughtered when they head for the United States. First, they are massacured when crossing the southern border into Mexico ...

The Great Migration Together: the capitalist oligarchs of Mexico and the United States are driving millions off the land

“The village is almost without people,” an elderly woman told a reporter in tiny San Jeronimo Solola, Oaxaca, earlier this year. “Many houses are empty. The fathers and the sons have gone ...

The Dream Fifty Years Later: Fiftieth Anniversary of Detroit’s Civil Rights March

“Almost one hundred and one years ago, on September the 22nd, 1862, to be exact, a great and noble American, Abraham Lincoln, signed an executive order, which was to take effect ...

Emergency Manager Coming to a Town near You?

Detroit’s Emergency Manager, Kevyn Orr, has made his first report. The trends that caused the Detroit decline include a population decline of 250,000 from 2000-2010, declining tax revenues, a vast geographical space ...

The Crisis in Public Education: And Justice for All

The public school system in America is being gradually eliminated. Is it because it is the last area whereby corporations can create for-profit schools and the fact that our minority ...

Charter School Week – Front for Corporate Takeover of Education

On May 3, President Obama proclaimed May 5-11 National Charter School Week. The Chicago Tribune noted that this was an affront to Obama’s supporters in the teachers’ ...

Pastors Protest Fresno Police Brutality

The National Network in Action, a civil and human rights organization, the Mexican-American Political Association, the Fresno Brown Berets and New Light for New Life Church ...

Salt on the Wound for the Poor: Storage Facilities Snatch Sensitive Stuff

If you’re one of countless people with no friend or family member with a basement or garage to store your stuff when you have to make an unexpected move (disaster, foreclosure, domestic ...

Rally at Coachella City Hall Urges Governor not to Delay Medical Expansion

On April 11, advocates, health professionals, and community members came out in support of immediately expanding California's health care access under the Affordable Care Act ...

Tar Sand Oil Transported to Gulf Coast Via Mobile, Alabama

The Extraction Industry will not stop trying to find ways to deliver their toxic Dilbit product to Gulf Coast Refineries. The Upper Gulf Coast has long been known as America’s Energy ...

10,000 Drones in the Sky?

The letter below, written on April 3, 2013, is part of national Veterans for Peace (VFP) campaign to educate people about the danger of drone technology. “VFP is a global organization of military ...

Social justice fair at El Comino College

On March 12, activists and organizers throughout the Los Angeles area gathered to participate in El Camino College's 1st Annual Social Justice Fair. The fair was organized by students Robert DeWitz and ...

Corporations determine if a tenant is “guilty” of a crime, Cabrini Green

Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Title 24 CFR (Code of Federal Regulations) Section§966.4 Lease requirements, Part (l)(5)(iii) Eviction for criminal Activity ...

Americans of African Descent: From the Cotton Fields to Corporate Offices

Editor’s Note: This is Part 4 of a four-part series. True freedom requires a never-ending battle. The threat to freedom masquerades with different identities. We...

Visionaries

Change can only occur when the people achieve a vision of the kind of new society that is possible. As we formulate our vision...

Whirlpool and Emergency Manager move to take control of Benton Harbor Parks

Every American ought to have the right to vote and their vote should mean something. Everyone ought to have the right to clean air and clean water, to integrity and transparency in a democracy ...

Governed by Edict: Executive Orders Replace Local Democracy

We pay Senior Millage, yet Senior Centers are being closed. We pay annual fees for garbage collection, yet our garbage collection has been outsourced to a private company. We pay a Park millage, yet our ...