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Monthly Archives: January, 2015

Stop the Rising American Police State

At a time when poverty is spreading like wildfire and good-paying jobs are a thing of the past for most of us, regardless of...

Poverty wage workers energize the movement

"As Walmart Workers, we are sick of struggling to put food on the table while our hard work makes the country's wealthiest family, the...

Skid Row from a Woman’s Perspective

Walking “The Row” I see this brotha creep up behind this homeless sistha, who is bent over in scanty clothing, ...

Homelessness can end in a new society

Silicon Valley is home to the greatest concentration of wealth and the largest homeless encampment in the country. ...

LA group plans town hall talk fest

The Los Angeles Community Action Network – LA CAN – gathers the forces of low income and houseless residents of L.A., and is based...

Shutoffs and foreclosures threaten lives

It has been nearly two months since two United Nations Special Rapporteurs visited Detroit and heard dozens of testimonials ...

The Untouchables return

It must be clear that the current state of the union is "scary." From coast to coast, events are unfolding that are frightening ...

“This is not a ‘moment.’ This is a ‘movement’

None of us knew each other before (Mike Brown’s murder). It is a group of people who recognized each other’s faces from ...

From Detroit to Ferguson with Love

The month of October launched a series of organized protest, marches, lectures, and actions of civil disobedience in ...

Voices from the movement against police brutality

The month of October launched a series of organized protest, marches, lectures, and actions of civil disobedience in ...

Police Violence against the dispossessed: The New Normal?

In the dead of night in the Appalachian hills in Habersham County, Georgia, a SWAT team executed a no-knock warrant on a ...

Poets explore vision of a new world

What an inspiring and uplifting chorus of voices we’ve heard today, each uniquely expressing something all of us share ...

What kind of world is possible?

We're talking about a world where the robots are cranking twenty-four hours a day. We're talking about a world where everybody ...

Chicago elections and the fight for necessities

Chicagoans are focused on one of the most contested, interesting elections in years. For four years, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and ...

Pain . . .

I live in Detroit, a full time zone apart. Why does this latest death so affect my heart? Little slices of Motown are choked off every day. Bankruptcy ....

Unite as one class

The issue of immigration and immigration reform must be understood within the context of a global capitalist system and the ...

The global climate strike: Why we can’t wait

The world’s capitals will not end the old economy or deliver the new one. We can’t wait any longer because every day of waiting ...

We charge genocide: a historic moment

After the murder of my friend Dominique Franklin by the Chicago Police Department I was really disempowered. I didn’t feel ...

Pentagon supplies L.A. Unified School District with combat weapons

Much controversy has arisen over recent revelations about the distribution of military combat weapons to school districts ...

Rev. Edward Pinkney’s statement to the Judge

“I’ve committed no crime. In fact, if I was anyone else, I would not be here. I can’t say if anyone changed the dates on the ...

Imprisoning our leaders will not stop the movement

On December 15, Rev. Edward Pinkney of Benton Harbor, Mich. was sentenced to 2 1/2 to 10 years in prison on a trumped-up ...

Voices from Benton Harbor

“They wrongfully convicted a man who did no crime. This is like a set up. They don’t ship people off that fast to prison. They took ...

Ferguson and the rising police state in America

Given American history, it could not be otherwise that today’s victims of police brutality are overwhelmingly people of color. History also shows that as this brutality becomes ...

“We don’t just stand for Dontre, but for everyone”

“On April 30, my brother left a hotel in downtown Milwaukee and went to a park. While there, he decided to take a nap. An employee ...

Ferguson: Shifting this moment into a movement

“One day the world will know my name.” As I sat in the church during Mike Brown’s funeral, those words were one of the...

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