by Brendan Maslauskas Dunn Propelled by the rebellion that has swept the nation following the police killing of George Floyd, on June 7th demonstrators in Richmond, VA – the Confederacy’s former capitol – tore down the statue of the Confederacy’s former president Jefferson Davis. It was just one […]
by Ricky Mondello I grew up in a small town in upstate New York, Dover. On July 12, 2008, on this blog, I documented a part of the lead-up to me graduating high school: There’s a little tradition at Dover High School – graduating seniors can elect to paint a […]
by National Lawyers Guild / Press Release NOTE: As this press release was being published, we learned about James Scurlock, a 22-year-old Black man, shot and killed during a protest last night in Omaha, NE by an alleged white supremacist yelling racial slurs. Support the Scurlock family at […]
by Joel Olsen/Black Rose Anarchist Federation The following commentary is from the Black Rose Anarchist Federation. This now classic essay by the late Joel Olson (1967-2012) reflects on the state of US anarchist milieu from the 1990’s through the 2000’s. Olson was a long time anarchist writer, organizer, political […]
by Tariq Khan / Black Rose Anarchist Federation 1. The Declaration of Independence is a document based on settler colonialism and genocide American Progress, a well known allegory of Manifest Destiny. If we read the Declaration of Independence in high school or college we know it to be […]
by Pamela Anderson In his famous poem, “The Solution,” Bertolt Brecht joked that “the people had forfeited the confidence of the government” and it would be easier “for the government to dissolve the people and elect another.” This has given me food for thought. I am in the […]
by Christopher Hanna Now more than ever, universities are in a state of crisis. American students are facing down gruesome levels of debt profiteering and escalating right-wing attacks against public higher ed — and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. As the nationwide turn towards fascism advances, […]
by Aaron Stephens / IWW Connecticut Sorry to Bother You, the debut film of writer and director Boots Riley has been a long time in the making. The screenplay was first published in 2012 in conjunction with the Coup’s sixth album by the same name, part of a long […]
by Love and Rage Team As the race for the congressional seat in NY’s 22nd Congressional District heats up, incumbent Republican candidate Claudia Tenney released a racist ad on TV. The thirty second ad is filled with rhetoric and images that pander to Tenney’s anti-immigrant base. The video […]
“Its citizens lives shorter and sicker lives compared to those living in all other rich democracies,” said Philip Alston, U.N. special rapporteur on extreme poverty. by TeleSur / Global A United Nations human rights investigator has criticized the United States for failing to alleviate poverty among its citizens, saying that U.S. authorities are “punishing and imprisoning the poor.” […]
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