Category Justice
Assange Arrested: Call for protests and phone calls; also links to articles
The prosecution of Julian Assange is an attack on Freedom of the Press in the 21st Century. WikiLeaks is democratizing journalism, redistributing power and increasing transparency. Publishing the truth is not a crime.
Fighting for Justice: Why Cross-Movement Collaboration Is Essential, Center for Constitutional Rights
Power dynamics to break free from to create biggest vision of humanity possible, a dynamic process, 100-year vision.
Confronting the Culture of Death, by Chris Hedges
When we pit ourselves against the culture of death—and this means performing acts of civil disobedience and noncompliance, it means becoming an outlaw in the eyes of the corporate state—then suffering, and even death, does not have the last word.
A Must Read! The Hidden Structure of Violence: Who Benefits from Global Violence and War, by Polly Mann
The result is a stunning indictment of our violent world and a powerful critique of the ways through which violence is reproduced on a daily basis, whether at the highest levels of the state or in the deepest recesses of the mind.
Popular Resistance: How Social Transformation Occurs
When activists understand that social movements are long-term efforts and that they go through particular stages, each with specific goals and tasks, they can be more effective. This knowledge is also helpful in avoiding burn out by expecting things to change before the necessary environment is in place.
For Our Rulers, Smearing A Dissident Journalist Is As Good As Killing Him, by Caitlin Johnstone
Nobody actually thinks that Julian Assange is a Russian agent, or a rapist, or a “hostile non-state intelligence service”, or any of the other absurd smears I’ve seen circulating about him throughout all political sectors of the US-centralized empire.
Does this look like a crime to you? The Case of Veteran Mike Madden
The lawyer has filed a motion to dismiss Madden’s case, arguing he’d gone to the airport to “publicly express his opinion on an issue… at the center of a national debate.”
Teaching ‘Les Misérables’ in Prison by Chris Hedges
The moral life, as Hugo pointed out, is not pragmatic or rational. It does not guarantee that we as distinct individuals survive. And yet, it permits us, by living for others, to become our best selves. It allows us a bittersweet happiness.
Legalizing Tyranny by Chris Hedges
The law as an instrument of morality at the state and federal levels has been deformed into an instrument of racialized social control.
ICE Keeps Challenging Federal Courts’ Authority — And Losing.
In a recent span of 10 days, four courts issued decisions that could literally save lives.
For the Love of Liberation: Let’s Stop Belittling Others and Start Organizing
While the criticisms of what liberalism has tolerated that led us up to now certainly ring true, the way these criticisms are levied is often counterproductive.
Forget Coates vs. West — We All Have A Duty to Confront the Full Reach of U.S. Empire
We see this debate as a political opportunity,… and everything to do with how …we are going to build a multiracial human rights movement capable of beating back surging white supremacy and rapidly concentrating corporate power.
Trump and the GOP Fuel Fantasies of White Victimhood by Sonali Kolhatkar
To those who have been used to privilege all their lives, equality may feel like oppression.
Chris Hedges | The Return of American Race Laws
The central tenet of fascism is always that war cleanses society and that the “virtues” that war inculcates in its combatants and survivors provide a new moral vigor.
Diana Gebrial | The Inextricable Link Between Migration and Sweatshops
Whereas most industries have seen some technological advancement, the image of the garment sweatshop has seen little modification since its inception over a century ago.
Fear in the Age of Trump
Today I write from that place of fear, maybe tomorrow I will write of hope and resistance.
Kathy Kelly | White Silence Equals Violence: Awaiting A Verdict
Although found guilty, I’ll still act in accordance with my belief that we didn’t act criminally.
Bill Moyers | A Poignant Poem That Encapsulates 2016
Bill Moyers shares “Starting with Black,” which addresses the “urgent political and moral crisis” that we currently face. Bill Moyers. (photo: PBS) By Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers & Company RSN December 31, 2016 y friend Jim Haba, a fine poet in his own right, has done more than anyone I know to democratize the popularity […]
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