Category: Represent Our Resistance

“Where’s our change? We paid our dues. Where’s our change?” chant the protesters called “hecklers” in the press. On April 21, 2011, members of Courage to Resist, mostly military activists against war, were among the supporters at President Obama’s 2012 fundraiser at Regis Hotel in San Francisco that paid $5000 dollar for a table. But…

In the valley of dry bones, loud speakers blast warnings: Those still able to call themselves “workers” could become a minority among the men, women, children, and elderly on the pavements beneath the beaks of vultures. The socialization of corporate think nullifies critical thinking skills among high school and college students, precluding the resurrection of…

Repetition. Some crew members take note: the same card game resulting in the shuffling of the same cards to the same players and the same outcome. The doctor believes she examines the same patient for an inner ear infection and the patient seems to recall the same examination. The captain thinks aloud that he has…

In Sickbay, Capt. Jean-Luc Picard, “gravely” injured, slips into a coma (“Tapestry,” The Next Generation, StarTerk.com). Q appears. Your artificial heart has failed: you are dead, he tells Picard. But he, Q, can grant any wish. What do you wish? To live with a real heart and to avoid the incident that caused me to…

“Throughout their entire history as a people,” writes Dr. Manning Marable in Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices of Resistance, Reform, and Renewal, African Americans have created themselves.” They did so in the context of the transatlantic slave trade and two-and-a-half centuries of chattel slavery – a structure of overwhelming inequality and brutality characterized by…

Tomahawk missiles. F-15s. F-16s. Here we go again. Dark skies filled with flashing lights and explosions heard and seen on CNN around the world We have seen this before. No troops on the ground there, but there are troops on the ground here, telling us there is no money. Few billion here and there, but…

It is September 1955, and Mamie Till Mobley chooses a glass-top casket so the world could see in the mutilated face of her son, 14-year old Emmett Till, the face of the enemy. “Let the world see what I have seen.” And now, where are the Mamie Till Mobleys to let the world see maimed,…

In the BBC film adaptation of Agatha Christie’s After the Funeral, a young woman gives a speech to a room full of men and women. Missionary work in Africa is honorable, in light of the poverty suffered by the people there. The camera pans over the high ceiling and mahogany walls, the “prim and proper”…

-Bob Herbert in “When Democracy Weakens” It does not matter what the people want. Peace is the spread of corporate domination and repressive police states everywhere and the obedience of the people. “We’re in serious danger of becoming a democracy in name only.” Where is peace, democracy? With over 800 military bases around the globe,…