The intense and righteous struggle to immediately appoint a qualified representative for the children and community of District 1 to the LAUSD Board of Education in the person of Dr. George McKenna…
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By Dan Roberts
GOP at least drops demand for another food stamp cut in bill going out for vote today.
As the nation’s nearly 80-year history of pot prohibition slowly begins to crumble, starting with Colorado’s recent implementation of taxed and legalized recreational marijuana, critics of the increasingly popular policy shift are jumping to denounce the move.
The following is an excerpt from Ian Haney-López’s new book, “Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class.”(Oxford University Press, 2014). This excerpt originally appeared onSalon.com.
Amiri Baraka, like his name, was a blessed prince, and he loomed like a colossus over the Black arts movement, excelling in practically every literary expression—as a poet, playwright, novelist, historian, journalist, and essayist.
Sadly, some writers have focused exclusively on the militant linkage between Malcolm X and Amiri Baraka to the criminal neglect of the genius of poetic insight and monumental powers in the art of the spoken word that bound them together.
by Anthony Monteiro
“The defense of Amiri is the defense of our national liberation and working class emancipatory aspirations.”
Fifty years ago, President Lyndon Johnson stood before Congress and declared war on poverty. His plans included broadening the food stamp program, extending minimum wage coverage, increasing education funding, and providing “hospital insurance” for older Americans. Johnson spoke of millions of Americans who lived on “the outskirts of hope,” and challenged the country to “replace their despair with opportunity.”
By Richard Eskow
“Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity,” said Nelson Mandela, “it is an act of justice.”
When the War on Poverty began a half-century ago, it was widely seen as the moral obligation of a wealthy nation.
The year 2014 marks one hundred years since the beginning of World War 1. That bloody encounter which is remembered as the first modern war fought in trenches, with gas and millions of soldiers dying in the process.
By Chris Hedges
This is our last gasp as a democracy. The state’s wholesale intrusion into our lives and obliteration of privacy are now facts. And the challenge to us—one of the final ones, I suspect—is to rise up in outrage and halt this seizure of our rights to liberty and free expression. If we do not do so we will see ourselves become a nation of captives.
Praise the Lord! It looks as though Democrats are starting to act like populists as we go into 2014. A few weeks ago, President Obama declared economic inequality has become the “defining challenge of our time.”
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