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Mar 3, 2011

Cover Story

1 Wisconsin: Asleep At the Wheel

By Perry Redd Columnist

In light of the recent protests in Wisconsin over their Republican governor, Scott Walker, trying to strip the teachers of their hard-earned, longtime right to negotiate the terms of their contract, we must be real and look at the larger picture. The vast numbers of those fighting for the just cause is impressive; a reaction…

In light of the recent protests in Wisconsin over their Republican governor, Scott Walker, trying to strip the teachers of their hard-earned, longtime right to negotiate…

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Cover Story

2 Wisconsin: Democracy Inaction – Leftward-Ho

By Peter Gamble Publisher

As I watched the numbers of protestors in Wisconsin grow to seventy thousand, I wondered how many of these people did not vote in November of 2010. I did not recall how close the Wisconsin off-year election was nor did I remember how wide the Obama victory was in Wisconsin in November of 2008. In…

As I watched the numbers of protestors in Wisconsin grow to seventy thousand, I wondered how many of these people did not vote in November of…

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Guest Commentary

Women’s History Month: Septima Clark – Teacher To A Movement

By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor Guest Commentator

Rosa Parks, who has been called the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement, well remembers the first time she met Septima Clark. It was at a civil rights workshop in Tennessee in the summer of 1955. African-Americans and sympathetic whites had begun to meet quietly, secretly, throughout the South to plan their counterattacks against the…

Rosa Parks, who has been called the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement, well remembers the first time she met Septima Clark. It was at a…

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Commentary

Don’t Cry for Wisconsin

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

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”…

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…

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Commentary

Rewriting the Social Contract and Making Everybody Hurt

By Carl Bloice Editorial Board

David Brooks wants to rewrite the nation’s social contract. Not only that, the New York Times columnist and PBS personality wants the idea enshrined in a new “unwritten austerity constitution” that aims to get “state and federal budgets under control” a process that “will take decades” to complete and the foundation of which “has to…

David Brooks wants to rewrite the nation’s social contract. Not only that, the New York Times columnist and PBS personality wants the idea enshrined in a…

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The African World

Modern-day Pirates: The Republicans vs. The Public Sector

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Editorial Board

So, let’s be clear: it’s not about the budget. As the facts have emerged in the 2011 Wisconsin crisis with Governor Scott Walker’s move against public service unions, it is not about Wisconsin lacking funds. There is no credible way that Walker and his clique can argue that eliminating a worker’s right to collective bargaining…

So, let’s be clear: it’s not about the budget. As the facts have emerged in the 2011 Wisconsin crisis with Governor Scott Walker’s move against public…

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Commentary

Class Struggle: Don’t Get Fooled Again!

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat…Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always struggle for new revelations.” Rosa Luxemburg “Industry required ever greater skills, thus closing their doors to the poor. Unions, fearing automation, warded off the poor; their predominantly White members often developed a paranoiac racism.”…

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat...Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always struggle for new revelations.” Rosa…

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Commentary

Rev. Peter Gomes: Accidental Gay Advocate

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

If during your tenure as a student at Harvard you did not encounter the Reverend Peter J. Gomes, you have not had the quintessential Harvard experience. For undergraduates, if they were paying attention, Gomes bookended their four-year experience at Harvard with his welcoming remarks during orientation and his baccalaureate address at graduation. In between those…

If during your tenure as a student at Harvard you did not encounter the Reverend Peter J. Gomes, you have not had the quintessential Harvard experience.…

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