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People have a right to housing because they have a right to live

September 1, 2024 Stephen Millies
Vice President Kamala Harris promises to build three million affordable houses if elected president. Meanwhile, her fellow Democrat ― California Gov. Gavin Newsom ― has ordered local governments to evict homeless people from their encampments […]
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DNC’s message: War! War! More War!

August 29, 2024 Sharon Black
In record time, the Democratic Party establishment dumped Joe Biden, crowned Kamala Harris, and put on an unprecedented show-stopping convention spectacle Aug. 19-22.   Over a billion dollars was likely spent (more than $76 million was […]
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The history of Black Populism: Resistance amid Jim Crow terror

August 29, 2024 Gregory E. Williams
Part 1: Populists fought the ruling class Part 2: Populism or fascism? Part 3: The history of Black Populism Part 4: Two paths after slavery’s end As explained in the first installment of this series […]
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Jaylen Brown’s Olympic absence: Nike, labor solidarity and anti-racism

August 24, 2024 Lev Koufax
Jaylen Brown has a lot going for him. As of recently, he’s an NBA champion and an NBA Finals Most Valuable Player. He’s a multi-time NBA all-star and a former McDonald’s All-American. What Jalen Brown […]
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Supreme Court millionaires criminalize being homeless

August 19, 2024 Scott Scheffer
On June 28, the unelected U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson case that the U.S. Constitution does not protect people against cruel and unusual punishment for sleeping outside even if […]
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Remembering the DNC 1968 – 2024 Same struggle, same fight

August 16, 2024 Sharon Black
In August of 1968, I was barely 19 years old and several months pregnant when I embarked on a trip with other activists to attend the protests at the Democratic Party Convention.   It was a […]
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405 years of ‘Black Jobs’

August 16, 2024 Stephen Millies
Make the Trumps pay reparations! What does Trump mean by the term “Black Jobs”? The billionaire bigot has used the phrase repeatedly since his debate with Genocide Joe Biden on June 27. Superstar gymnast Simone […]
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AI bubble burst? Tech stock plunge sparks recession fears amid military-industrial AI expansion

August 15, 2024 Gary Wilson
The AI boom tumbled on Friday, Aug. 2, 2024, shaken by losses in Big Tech. The world’s 10 richest people — all men — lost just over $45 billion in the Aug. 2 market fall.  […]
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Free the UHURU 3: Defend anti-imperialist organizing

August 12, 2024 Cheryl LaBash
 We are told that a hallmark of “democracy,” capitalism style, is freedom of speech. Turns out though you’d better not speak up against the war machine, or else militarized SWAT teams will knock down […]
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The Kamala-Trump-Walz-Vance equation

August 8, 2024 José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez
While Walz exhibits concrete results at all levels, Vance appears to most voters as a question mark… After the presidential debate on June 27 in Atlanta, Georgia, between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, two potential […]