Our New Postracial Myth, by Ibram X. Kendi
"Just as you can recognize an impoverished country by its widespread poverty, you can recognize a racist country by its widespread racial inequity."
Henry Giroux: To End Racial Capitalism, We Will Need to Take On the Institution of Policing
"Police brutality is endemic to American history." "Policing in the United States is a force of racist violence that is entangled at the core of the capitalist system."
The military-industrial-media complex renders the American populus ill-informed in matters regarding war
"How real is all this influence? Does the military-industrial-media complex (MIMC) actually affect the information we receive and our perception of war?"
Matt Taibi: Why “Securing Democracy” Will Be Taught in Journalism Schools
“It is impossible to anticipate all the threats that you will face when confronting powerful governments.”
Noam Chomsky’s Theory of the Good Life, an interview by Ezra Klein
"In fact, anarchist society should be highly organized, but under popular control of a free informed community, which can interact without illegitimate forces controlling them."
David Swanson: A Cold War Re-Education in 8 Minutes
"The U.S. could have chosen hot war, but could also have chosen peace."
Henry Giroux: Those arguing that education should be neutral are really arguing for a version of education in which nobody is accountable
Giroux advocates that “education has to be at the centre of any discourse about democracy and that is where the left has failed. They failed because they believe that the most important structures of domination are entirely economic”.
Barb Tilsen Singer, Songwriter, Poet, Mother, Grandmother, Organizer
I’m a singer, songwriter, poet, mother, grandmother, auntie, activist and organizer. I have been involved in many organizations. Through them, networks developed and the relationships underlying them endured and grew. It’s those connections that support our ability to sustain activism over time and make change. — Barb Tilsen By Anne Winkler Morey Minneapolis Interview Project More
Supreme Court Crushes Media Diversity in Ruling on Lawsuit Accusing Comcast of Racial Discrimination
"What this story is about is, it’s basically — it’s about a series of black entertainment moguls who started media networks or television shows."
The War on Immigrants
WITH THE SO-CALLED Migrant Protection Protocols program, or MPP, expanding along the southern border and trapping more U.S. asylum-seekers in dangerous Mexican cities, violations of due process are intensifying in traditional courts — and in newly built tents that physically separate immigrants from the judges who hear their cases. Trump’s Attacks on the Press Fuel Harassment More
I’m a Child of Immigrants. And I Have a Plan to Fix Immigration. By Sonia Nazario, and End Project Streamline
Neither Democrats nor Republicans will like [the plan].. But it would be humane, it would adhere to the rule of law, and it would work.
Flowers and Zeese | From Neoliberal Injustice To Economic Democracy
Mahatma Gandhi’s program of nonviolent resistance, satyagraha, had two components: obstructive resistance and constructive programs.