Examining a saga that stretches from the founding of the country to the management of the pandemic today – with ideas for fighting back.
people of color
The road to freedom: a multiracial movement
Gil Veyna, a Chicano retired federal worker and lifelong political activist, takes aim at fascist-led racism and “land of the free” myths.
We need a multiracial movement
The ruling class and the far right both want us divided and at each other’s throats on the basis of race, gender, and more. We say no.
Black workers lead safety fight at Amazon
The first U.S. union at Amazon is on the horizon as workers nationally organize against racism and pandemic-related abuses, defying corporate retaliation.
No Trees, No Treaty! For Djab Wurrung sovereignty, not genocidal destruction!
On 26 October, the Victorian government sent workers and police into Djab Wurrung country to bulldoze a 350-year-old tree that was culturally significant to the Djab Wurrung people and their birth practices.
Cops out of schools: Break the pipeline to prison
Behavior that would have gotten detention now gets handcuffs. It’s time to get armed police out of schools.
Shut down Fort Hood!
This Texas base has the highest incidence of sexual harassment, rape and murder in the Army. It deserves to close.
Census 2020: erasing immigrants and people of color
Why the census is important and how Trump is manipulating it to inflame racism and xenophobia and normalize his rule by decree.
Hagamos que importen las Vidas Negras
Durante décadas, los manifestantes contra la brutalidad policial garabateaban los nombres de las personas asesinadas en cartulinas y marchaban por las calles. Cuando se publicó otro video y se descubrió… Read more »
Make Black lives matter
From August 2020, an analysis of the role of the police and a proposal for curbing their deadly abuses.