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Truth is not fake news.  Justice is not fake news.

News, information, stories, commentary, videos with perceptive views on current events and  issues.

Thank you for reading and sharing Rise Up Times. With a mainstream corporate media that is beholden to powerful financial and political interests that do not have the people at heart, we need to share and discuss information and issues more than ever.

The politics of truth is in the interaction. Factual truth is the bedrock of a free politics. Difference of interpretation and opinion is its process.
—Jeffrey C. Goldfarb, The New School for Social Research

Rise Up Times encourages measured and inspired dialog and discussion in response to articles.

Rise Up Times is concerned about the rise of totalitarianism and fascism and suppression of democracy, particularly in the United States but also across the globe. Free discussion is necessary to any government truly by the people.

Rise Up Times posts articles about a variety of issues:

“There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.” —Audre Lorde

Carl Sandburg knew:

The people yes. The people will live on. …
In the darkness with a great bundle of grief the people march.
In the night, and overhead a shovel of stars for keeps, the people
march:
“Where to? what next?”
—Carl Sandburg

Your support is essential and appreciated. Rise Up Times needs your assistance to continue to bring you up-to-date news and commentary about issues crucial to the survival of government by the people and the planet. You make People Supported News possible.

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Your continued support does make a difference, as does every phone call you make, every email you send, every protest you attend, ever​y action you take for peace and justice.

THANK YOU!

Sue Ann Martinson, Editor
Rise Up Times

P.S. Your donation will help Rise Up Times continue to inform and engage people to fight in every nonviolent way possible for compassion and caring for the people of our country and the world and against the corporate greed that drives militarism and climate change and the loss of the commons in the gradual destruction of our planet. 

Artwork: US at War With US   By Jared Rodriguez  Truthout.org
Image paired with the article:  “We No Longer Live in a Democracy”: Henry Giroux on a United States at War With Itself 

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​Why Rise Up Times? The name Rise Up Times was chosen because these are the times to Rise Up and be heard. “Times” refers not only to the Times we live in but, as you know, is also a common name for newspapers and other media. We continue to Rise Up!

Resistance is no longer an option, it is now a matter of life or death. The lights are going out on democracy across the globe and the time to wake up from this nightmare is now.     Henry A. Giroux

“There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.”   Audre Lorde