Issue: 518
May 23, 2013
View from the Battlefield
Fast Food Workers Are Standing Up And Walking Out
Editorial Board
Grown folks struggling to make ends meet while being treated like subhumans at work is a sure formula for rebellion.
They are not in a good mood and they certainly aren’t lovin’ it. If workers in the fast food industry really had it their way, they’d…
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Commentary
Remembering Sakia Gunn: The News Coverage and Homophobic Murder
Editorial Board
untold numbers of hate crimes against LGBTQ people of color not only went unreported in mainstream papers, they also rarely saw the light of day in queer ones as well.
This May 11th sadly marked the tenth anniversary of the murder of Sakia Gunn of Newark, N.J. And her murder is mired, at best, by myths…
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Commentary
The Twisted Paradigm of ‘Hope and Change’ in the U.S
Editorial Board
Time and time again we have been relegated to playing the role of being the victims of the vicious systemic game of 'rope-a-dope.'
“...the two parties have combined against us to nullify our power by a 'gentlemen's agreement' of non-recognition, no matter how we vote...May God write us down…
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Commentary
The Well Travelled and Disastrous Road from Kabul to Benghazi
Editorial Board
The Cold War is ostensibly over but training and arming the bad guys never stopped.
In his book Blowback, published in 2000, the author and scholar, Chalmers Johnson, wrote: “World politics in the twenty-first century will in all likelihood be driven…
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Commentary
No Thanks For the Motivation
Columnist
These are the very people who kick the ladder down once they get up.
Once again, the President is playing the tune of indifference, the tune of disconcern, the tune of white men. He is definitely a president like all…
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