Issue: 629
November 12, 2015
Commentary
Why Are So Many Black and Brown Men in Prison?
Editorial Board
“Our criminal justice system treats you better if you are rich and guilty than if you are poor and innocent.”
For most of the first 200 years of U.S. history, our rate of incarceration and our prison population was similar to that of other industrialized nations.…
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Commentary
A $15 Minimum Wage In New York? – Big Business To The Castle Walls!
Columnist
This is a story and a fight that is about as old as the federal minimum wage law itself, and the narrative never changes. “If you raise the minimum wage, you’ll only be hurting the workers you want to help,” is the usual pablum that is served up by these groups.
The headline at the top of the opinion page of the Sunday Gazette this week was ominous: “Heed warnings in new minimum wage report,” in response…
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Commentary
Connecting the Dots: The Cartel Surrogates in the Privatization of Public Education, Part I
Columnist
The conventional wisdom is that the Republicans are the major culprits in efforts to privatize public education. However, the Cartel has long supported a cadre of Democrats who are equal contributors to some or all of the privatization of public education initiatives at the local, state, and federal levels.
The Cartel pro-privatization of public education corporations, Wall Street financial institutions, and conservative wealthy individuals--led by the Koch Bros. and the Broad, Gates, Walton, Bradley, Arnold…
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The African World
Reparations in the Caribbean? – The Global African
Editorial Board
November 12, 2015 – Issue 629 var addthis_config = {“data_track_clickback”:true}; Reparations in the Caribbean? The Global African Video is courtesy of The Global African & teleSUR Did UK Prime Minister David Cameron inadvertently give life to the Reparations movement in the Caribbean? Mr. Fletcher also talks to the leader of a new project cutting down…
November 12, 2015 - Issue 629 var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; Reparations in the Caribbean? The Global African Video is courtesy of The Global African & teleSUR…
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Commentary
Where’s Log Cabin Republican Activism This Campaign Season?
Editorial Board
where is the ground work being done to help the G.O.P move forward on LGBTQ inclusion?
With four GOP debates now aired where all the presidential hopefuls are clearly either conservative or ultra-conservative on social issues, one has to wonder - where…
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Commentary
Remembering The Durban 400
Columnist
How mighty can the United States be without acknowledging, apologizing, and paying reparations to African people for the Greatest Crime Against Humanity they participated in, the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade, Slavery, and Colonialism?
It has been fourteen years since the historic United Nations World Conference Against Racism took place in Durban, South Africa. We should always remember the role…
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Color of Law
Money, Racism and Protest: What Led to the Resignation of University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe?
Executive Editor
Money is the one thing that white America values, and the only thing that matters in this Anglo-Saxon brand of capitalism. The leveraging of financial power by the striking Black football players was the ultimate tipping point.
Why did Tim Wolfe, the president of the University of Missouri system, resign from his position? One can assume it was due to his failure to…
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