As Far Right Storms Capitol, Media Need to Look at Their Own Role in How We Got Here
"Imagine if corporate media didn’t praise McConnell, Lindsey Graham or any other Republicans who propped up Trump’s dangerous lies for so long,"
End This Endless War…this Endless Militarism
"We’re all part of a culture that continues to esteem war, embrace militarism, and devote more than half of federal discretionary spending to wars, weaponry, and the militarization of American culture. "
Noam Chomsky and Chris Hedges on the State of the American Empire
Noam Chomsky addresses the current state of the American Empire after the attack on the capital on Jan 6, 2021. His new book: “Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance.”
The Peacestock Panel with Danny Sjursen, Coleen Rowley, Sarah Flounders and Brittany DeBarros
Four knowledgeable activists discuss the current state of the nation and what faces us as we move into the Biden administration: strategies and taking action.
Women Against Military Madness, Peacestock Peace Plaza
WAMM dedicates our time, effort, and energy through issue-focused committees that allow members to be active in a non-hierarchical organization that builds peace and justice. Join us!
Communities United Against Police Brutality, Peacestock Peace Plaza
"Our overriding goal is to create a climate of resistance to abuse of authority by police organizations and to empower local people with a structure that can take on police brutality and actually bring it to an end."
Community Control of the Police, Peacestock TCC4j
Giving people more information and self-determining power where the police are concerned.
Capitalism on a Ventilator – The Impact of COVID-19 in China and the U.S.
Ajamu Baraka, Monica Moorehead, Mumia Abu Jamal, Margaret Kimberley, Vijay Prishad, Lee Siu Hin, Sara Flounders, Carlos Martinez, Kevin Zeese, Deirdre Griswold, Max Blumenthal and more.
Articles from WAMM Newsletter Winter 2020-21
Articles from WAMM Newsletter Winter 2020-21 Vol. 38 Num. 6 Keep Space for Peace! Save the Heavens from Hegemony! By Bruce K. Gagnon Total Information Warfare: Sinophobia By Newsletter Staff "Let Them Go!" 648+ Peaceful Protesters Arrested in Minneapolis By Newsletter Staff The Philippines Human Rights Act: Your Support is More
The Fight to Stop the Enbridge Line 3 Pipeline
"Predatory industry hijacked the US regulatory system in 2019, placing ancient food systems and a fifth of the world’s freshwater in imminent danger."
Glenn Greenwald on the Biden Administration and Expanding Censorship with Chris Hedges
The Biden administration and what it will mean for a country in crisis...
How the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Impacts the United States, and Why the United States Must Embrace its Entry into Force
"President-elect Biden faces many nuclear weapons policy challenges as he takes office. Under the Trump administration, the United States withdrew from [several key treaties around nuclear weapons issues] and did not extend New START, all while urging other countries to not join, or even to withdraw their ratifications to, the TPNW. The United States has a chance to return to the table on multilateral nuclear negotiations and build back better."
Somewhere to Begin, sung by Sara Thomsen
If changes are to come there are things that must be done...
Anthem, by Leonard Cohen
Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack, a crack in everything That's how the light gets in
EFF: Digital Security Tips for Protesters (on and off the streets)
Organizers: Consider alternatives to Facebook and Twitter
Violent Right-Wing Forces Have Been Activated. It Requires Strategic Action to Stop Them
"Finally, we must recognize that our struggle is global. What the United States government has done to its people by denying them what they need to live a life of dignity is what the United States has imposed upon people around the world..."
Democracy Now! Fascism Scholars Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Walden Bello, and Timothy Snyder discuss Trump, the Capitol assault, and fascist authoritarianism
“The American republic is hanging by a thread because the president of the United States has sought to use violence to stay in power and essentially to overthrow our constitutional system,” says Snyder.
Is Big Tech Too Powerful? Chris Hedges and Ramesh Srinivasan Debate Twitter & Facebook Banning Trump
“It is incredible how much power we have given to a very small number of people who are essentially mediating pretty much every aspect of our lives.”
A Very Intentional First Day of the Year, by Michael Bayly
"Following are images from my time at the George Floyd Memorial Site and the Prayer Tree on the afternoon of Friday, January 1, 2021. I experienced my time at both of these places as holy, grounding, and renewing."
Chris Hedges, On Contact: Cornel West on America’s Existential Crisis
ON THE RT SHOW THIS WEEK, CHRIS HEDGES TALKS TO MORAL PHILOSOPHER, DR. CORNEL WEST, ABOUT WHAT WE CAN LEARN ABOUT AMERICA’S EXISTENTIAL CRISIS AFTER WITNESSING ENRAGED SUPPORTERS OF DONALD TRUMP STORMING THE CAPITOL