Flowers and Zeese | Visions For The Future
We’ve seen time and again that when people lead, the leaders follow.
Flowers and Zeese | Visions For The Future
We’ve seen time and again that when people lead, the leaders follow.
Flowers and Zeese | Unite To Change The Status Quo
When a mass movement is united against the power elites it is unstoppable.
Flowers and Zeese | Unite To Change The Status Quo
When a mass movement is united against the power elites it is unstoppable.
DN! Henry Giroux: Is Trump’s Rise a Result of America Declaring War on Institutions That Make Democracy Possible? (Video)
Henry Giroux critiques what he believes is a slide toward authoritarianism and other failings that led to the current political climate and rise of Donald Trump.
▶ Chris Hedges “Wages of Rebellion” The Moral Imperative of Revolt
Hedges: We have a moral imperative on behalf of our children, on behalf of the next generation, whose future is being robbed from them, to stand up.
Chris Hedges: America’s Slave Empire
Without us the prisons, which are slave empires, cannot function. Prisons, at the same time, charge us a variety of fees, such as for our identification cards or wrist bracelets, and [impose] numerous fines, especially for possession of contraband. They charge us high phone and commissary prices. Prisons each year are taking larger and larger sums of money from the inmates and their families. The state gets from us millions of dollars in free labor and then imposes fees and fines. You have brothers that work in kitchens 12 to 15 hours a day and have done this for years and have never been paid.”
Jeff Nygaard: Twelve Memes of 2014 to Say Goodbye to in 2015
#12 The Private Sector Can Do Anything Cheaper and Better than Government. Read the rest. By Jeff Nygaard Women Against Military Madness Newsletter Winter II 2014 1. The U.S. is the World’s Only Superpower While the U.S. is still powerful, signs of its decline are everywhere. The heads of state of both Russia and China have More
Ann Jones: Is This Country Crazy?
if you are an American, you are statistically in less danger of dying from a terrorist attack in this country than from a toddler shooting you. And by the way, you’re 2,059 times more likely to die by your own hand with a weapon of your choosing than in a terrorist attack anywhere on Earth. You’re also more than nine times as likely to be killed by a police officer as by a terrorist.
Excerpt from The Violence of Organized Forgetting by Henry A. Giroux
In The Violence of Organized Forgetting: Thinking Beyond America’s Disamignation Machine, the newest book published by City Lights, Henry A. Giroux explores the intersections of political power, popular culture, and new methods of social control. By ADMIN CityLights August 12, 2014 Giroux examines how neoliberal discourse (that is economic liberalism, not political liberalism) and the commodification of More
Zubeida Mustafa: How the Women of Pakistan Cope With War, Honor Killings and Prejudice
The winds of change are now blowing. What the world hears today in the shape of horrendous stories of women being stoned to death, little girls being shot in the head for going to school and victimized women fighting back ... are basically manifestations of women’s courage to challenge the misogynist reaction of those who fear More
▶ Democracy Now! Looking Back: A Year of Struggles on Climate, Education & Marriage Equality Inspire Hope for 2014
http://youtu.be/9IL1yFmoOfs Published on Dec 31, 2013 http://www.democracynow.org - On the last day of 2013, we look back on some of the many signs of hope that emerged on issues ranging from economic equality to LGBT rights to climate justice. With all the bad news that came this year, there were many encouraging displays of a shifting public More