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Cover Story:
“Fiscal Cliff’ Bridged but Threat to
Working People’s Welfare Still on Track
The
wealthy
are joining hands without regard to
political affiliation to
cut benefits that enjoy broad
bipartisan support among everyone who
is
not rich.
Political
Cartoon - Where You Going Joe By Mr.
Fish, Philadelphia PA
The Power
and Convenience of the eBook By Peter
Gamble, BC Publisher and Chief
Technical Officer
In
our
next issue we are going to take what
we feel is a significant step
forward. Issue 500 of
BlackCommentator will be offered as an
eBook.
Now is the Time for Maryland to Kill
its Death Machine
Four
states - Texas, Arizona, Mississippi
and Oklahoma - accounted for
three-quarters of the 43 executions in
the U.S. in 2012
Anti-Union Sen. Tim
Scott Has Drunk Deeply of GOP Kool-aid
“Right
to work” laws are part of the
continuing effort to neutralize
organized
labor and to quash any hope of
workers to gain their just rights
Collective
Anti-Capitalism: Learning from
Anti-Racism Struggles
Racism
and capitalism produce many of the
same tragic individual and community
wounds
Political
Cartoon - Collateral Damage By Eric
Garcia, Chicago IL
Django Unchained: A
Look At Yesteryear To Better
Understand Today?
If you’re
intellectually curious about this
horrific era in US history, you’ll
have to read a few books
Celebrating the 150th
Anniversary of the Emancipation
Proclamation
My
ancestors
named the day of Lincoln’s signing of
this historic document
Jubilee Day. Many African Americans
continue to celebrate Jubilee Day
with a New Year's Eve church service
called “Watch Night Service.”
Innocent Until They
Imitate
The
American enterprise saw to it that
shipments of weapons and drugs
flowed into the Black communities
in the 1970s to further neutralize
resistance and dissent while
paving the way for the prosperity
of
prison building in the 1980s and
gentrification in the 1990s.
The Emperor's Gifts -
Guantanamo, Drone Missiles,
Afghanistan and the NDAA
What
this
government does to people in other
lands – it will not hesitate to
practice against its own citizens and
other residents within the
borders of this nation.
Why They Owe Us!
We
have
a historic responsibility to demand
reparations from those forces
of white supremacy that continue to
benefit from what they did to us
Political Cartoon - Bad Ol' Boys By
Chuck Siler, Carrollton TX
Art: Smile By Ray
Ferrer - Urban Wall Art &
Murals, New York NY
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