I was birthed on a demo line…Okay, not quite, but close. Born in Oakland to a carpenter/union organizer turned full-time socialist and a teacher/community other-mother, at the tail end of the Black […]
“We believe that we will win”
“We believe… We believe that we will win!”
If you don’t see anything else, you have to watch this video of young people marching in Los Angeles in protest to the George Zimmerman verdict. Truly inspiring. http://www.tubechop.com/watch/1350871
Support California Prison Hunger Strikers!
By John Reimann Early this July, some 30,000 California prisoners went on hunger strike to protest the inhumane conditions in California prisons. Foremost amongst these conditions is solitary confinement, in which a […]
Bee disappearance and implications for human health
by John Reimann Scientists discover what’s killing the bees and it’s worse than you thought This is what I always suspected. That the collapse of beehive colonies was not due to one […]
“Fruitvale Station” – Welcome to America
Oscar Grant I went to see “Fruitvale Station” last night – the film about the murder of young Oscar Grant by the public transit police in the San Francisco Bay area. Overall, […]
Stop Torture in California Prisons!
Nearly 30,000 prisoners in California prisons have gone on hunger strike to protest the use of psychological torture through solitary confinement. Now, the prison authorities have added physical torture to the psychological […]
Obama’s speech on race
On Friday, President Obama gave an important speech on the Zimmerman trial. The following day, the ever-interesting Wall St. Journal covered that speech in a front page article. The following are […]
Why Zimmerman was let off
Some socialists had thought the courts would find Zimmerman guilty because that would simplify things for the “one percent”, the capitalist class. The idea makes sense in one way. After all, consider […]
Will Muslim Brotherhood Return?
by John Reimann On Tuesday, July 17, the Egyptian government’s interim cabinet was announced. Several appointments serve to confirm our previous perspectives. These appointments can only be understood when the extreme economic […]
Racism and Growing Crisis of US Politics
by John Reimann Gerald Seib is the chief correspondent covering politics in Washington D.C. for the most important newspaper of Corporate America – the Wall St. Journal. That’s why when he writes, […]