Confronting the American Police State
Embed from Getty Images A thousand scattered voices, politically and ideologically separated, mean nothing. We must confront each and every attack on what liberty we have left. — Unarmed civilians...
View ArticleThe Dysfunction of the American Police State
Today, the police are the street enforcers for the corporate dictatorship. We need a society where the people, not the corporations, are in charge. — 1970 Kent State Massacre in Albuquerque, NM by the...
View ArticleSave the Earth from Corporations
Embed from Getty Images Our needs as human beings and the very environment we depend on for life itself are sacrificed on the altar of corporate profits. — We are fast approaching a point of no...
View ArticleStop the Killings
Embed from Getty Images The burning question today for those of us in a fight for our survival is: Will we allow a system built upon violence to destroy us? — A young reporter and cameraman killed on...
View ArticleThe Political Significance of the Charleston Killings
Embed from Getty Images There is no hatred inherent in the unity of mankind, and there is no mistaking; to exist fully, we must stand united, or individually, fall. — Across the country, churchgoers,...
View ArticleHomelessness Demands a New Society
Embed from Getty Images The crisis of homelessness could be solved overnight. The only thing standing in the way is the private property relations of capitalism. — In a wave of hard-hearted attacks,...
View ArticleHomelessness Can End in a New Society
The problem is that the means of life —the production of food, housing, healthcare, etc.,—are privately owned by a handful of billionaires rather than by society as a whole. Veronica Mackenzie (left)...
View ArticleAttacks On the Homeless Threaten All of Us
Embed from Getty Images The defense of homeless rights is not only the defense of our whole class against the brutal rule of the billionaire capitalist class and its fascist agenda, it is a fight for...
View ArticleTasers Equal Torture
“Tasers are the cattle prods of capitalism, they are going to be used to prod us along and get rid of us.” — BERKELEY CA—Members of the public recently lined up to testify before the Berkeley City...
View ArticleWhy the Fascist Attacks On Our Youth
Embed from Getty Images The graphic video from South Carolina of a 16-year-old young woman tossed and beat up by a school police officer exemplifies the brutality and criminalization the youth face...
View ArticleTens of Thousands Affected by Displacement in Silicon Valley
Tens of thousands of low-income seniors, people with disabilities, and working people are being forced out of their Silicon Valley homes. — SAN JOSE, CA — Tenants and members of the homeless community...
View ArticleCost of Higher Education Contradicts its Purpose
Embed from Getty Images College education has become a necessity in modern America as jobs offering high enough salaries to feasibly sustain a person in our culture become less in number and extremely...
View ArticlePolice with Guns in High Schools
Embed from Getty Images The presence of an armed officer changes the values taught and the atmosphere at school. At such a young age, students are learning to fear the police. — LOS ANGELES, CA — I am...
View ArticleA Nation of Immigrants
Immigrant and native-born workers share a common destiny of starvation if the potentially liberating new technologies are left in the hands of the corporate ruling class. — Immigrants have always been...
View ArticleAfrican American History Month, 2016
Revolutionaries must fight every instance of racism with the understanding that this fight is part of the effort to unite. — African American History Month 2016 finds society becoming more polarized...
View ArticleBaltimore: Police Violence Increases as Jobs Decrease
As long as private individuals can horde billions through exploitation and inheritance, they will direct the police to do whatever it takes to protect their wealth. — BALTIMORE, MD — Last spring...
View ArticleHomeless In Fight For Their Survival
Those who do find housing will pay almost half of their income on rent in many areas across the country. — LOS ANGELES, CA — They come here to Los Angeles to sleep under the invisible stars because...
View ArticleWe Demand the Real Criminals Go to Jail
Our vision today is to cause this corrupt criminal enterprise system to be exposed, and we demand that the real criminals go to to jail. — Editor’s note: This is the text of a speech by Dorothy...
View ArticleHow Your Employer Uses Perks like Wellness Programs, Phones and Free Food to...
Elizabeth C. Tippett, University of Oregon Companies offer all sorts of benefits and extras to attract the most favored workers, from health care and stock options to free food. But all those perks...
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