Readers’ opinions and fight-back announcements.
Inequality
Review: The Last Black Man In San Francisco
A gripping film about the racist, anti-working class character of gentrification.
Whistleblower Ramsey Orta still in prison
Chokehold killer cop walks free. Join the fight against police abuse.
NFL’s massive cover-up of concussions
Outrage climbs at football league’s racism and greed
End Seattle’s inhumane sweeps of homeless camps
In “liberal,” Democratic Party-controlled Seattle, elected officials and cops treat the city’s homeless as less than human.
Legal system protects police, but not videographer of Eric Garner’s murder
No cop has ever been charged, but the man who exposed the 2014 chokehold killing has been persecuted and imprisoned.
Exposing the roots of MS-13
Immigrant youth need jobs and education. Disponible en español.
From livable city to company town: How Amazon and Boeing ate Seattle
In just a couple decades, billionaire businesses have intensified poverty, homelessness and dislocation in Seattle. This city has a long tradition of labor rebellion which it can surely revive.
Are charter schools the answer to inequality in public education?
“Charter school” … what comes to mind when these words are uttered? According to the National Education Association (NEA), a charter school is “a primary or secondary school that receives public money but is not subject to some of the rules, regulations and statutes that apply to public schools, in exchange for some type of… Read more »
The deficit vs. income inequality: A focus on government debt hides the real crisis for the US majority
From 2013, an explanation of the U.S. deficit and debt — and a look at the misdirection that furor over them is meant to accomplish.