Six Baltimore police officers were indicted on charges connected to the death of Freddie Gray. Freddie’s treatment before he was put in the police van was ...
Thinking about lessons I’ve learned over the last eight years and, I ask, “Why do I care and fight so much?” I’ve been labeled an everything you can think of, ...
Tamir Rice, 12 years old, was shot and killed by police within seconds after police arrived at a park in Cleveland, Ohio. Deven Guilford, 17, was shot seven ...
Such testimony was heard repeatedly at the Oakland-wide Anti-Displacement Forum, “Speak Out to Stay Put”, held on October 17. Over 400 people joined together ...
Members of the public recently lined up to testify before the Berkeley City Council at a hearing on the Berkeley Police Department’s desire to acquire tasers as ...
Michael Clift [‘Pirate Mike’], homeless veteran, member of Veterans for Peace and founding member of OccupySF, was struck and killed October 30 on a Texas highway ...
Homeless residents all over Los Angeles woke up on June 16 to the realization that their possessions, if left on the street for more than 24 hours, could be ...
The city of Flint has eroded public trust and violated the social contract between the residents and their government. The continued inaction of the ...
An ominous specter is haunting Chicago Public Schools (CPS) this fall and winter, the specter of scandals, budget cuts and layoffs. The latest shoe to drop ...
“ROLL TIDE ROLL” is the clarion call in Alabama to cheer on the University of Alabama football team. But due to budget cuts in Alabama’s general fund ...
I grew up here in this area southeast, L.A., in Bell, California. At a very early age in sixth grade I was getting bused. My bus went through South Central ...
When The Future Is Up to Us first came out, it was read and discussed by many people involved in the fight for a new society. It sparked some lively debates ...
The people of Chicago are being abandoned by state and local government, even as the city slips deeper into crisis. If you go to the city council budget hearings ...
All of us value health, but not all of us have to think about it every day. In this article I argue that the recent Illinois state budget impasse is/was deeply ...
Today, many people are talking about socialism. This discussion is happening now because many of us are coming to the conclusion that the capitalist...
