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Issue: 678

December 08, 2016

Guest Commentary

Fighting Back Against the White Revolt of 2016

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Editorial Board

After the initial shock, spontaneous anti-Trump protests began to spread as despair turned to anger. While this has been understandable and positive, it is far from sufficient. This is precisely why an accurate analysis of the election is essential in order to develop longer-term strategy.

On the left and within progressive movements there were two immediate responses to Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential elections. First, shock, frequently accompanied by despair.…

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No DAPL

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No DAPL

By Eric Garcia Cartoonist/Artist

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Color of Law

Looking to the History of Resistance to Survive in Trump’s America

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

Those who have endured intergenerational trauma stemming from the relentless drumbeat of injustice have responded by strategizing, organizing and fighting back. Now we must resist the very real prospect of living in Trumpland, that abnormal yet very American place which will expose us to irreversible physical harm, psychic damage and assaults on our dignity—all cloaked in the red, white and blue.

The specter of a Trump White House is unconscionable and traumatizing to many. Some have suggested that we give the president-elect a chance, and hope, even…

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Commentary

Technology and the Erosion of Community

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

Our nation is on a downward spiral, and there is no soft landing unless we rediscover the ways we once connected, and revive them.

Professor Deva Woodly teaches Political Science at the New School for Social Research in New York. During a recent talk, she shared that trust in our…

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Commentary

A Congresswoman’s Public Forum on How to Survive a Trump Presidency

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

Fielding questions and concerns expressed from the audience highlighted how women and people on the margins have the most to lose in a country pivoting away from their full protections and participation in a multicultural democracy.

Democratic Congresswoman Katherine Clark, who has represented Massachusetts’s 5th Congressional District since 2013, has never been someone to shy away from difficult issues. Just last month,…

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Commentary

U.S. Likely to be Split in More Ways than Just Dems and GOP

By John Funiciello Columnist

The split between average workers (who voted for him) and Trump will come eventually and the feelings of betrayal of the working class and middle class will be monumental.

As the nation moves toward the inevitable catastrophe of a Donald Trump presidency, there is an overwhelming opinion about how the country is split and it…

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Commentary

Unscrambling Key Elements of the Success of Charter Schools

By Dr. Walter C. Farrell, Jr., PhD, M.S.P.H. Columnist

roughly 17 percent of charter schools perform better than public schools, 37 percent perform significantly worse, and 46 percent perform about the same as their surrounding public schools. This occurs despite the fact that charter schools have the freedom to counsel out, expel, and remove students without a due process hearing.

The number of private-sector managed charter schools has dramatically increased during the past decade as the corporate education reform Cartel has funded the election of Republican-controlled…

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Guest Commentary

“Mining Fools Gold…” (Thoughts For The Thoughtful)

By Dr. Carlos E. Russell, PhD Guest Commentator

Few progressive Blacks—if any, I posit, believed or expected that a Clinton presidency would have been the harbinger of social, economic, and political transformation.

I believe it was Pope Frances who once said that the relentless pursuit of “predatory capitalism” is the “devil's dung.” I am almost certain that it…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

This land is your land – this land is my land . . . . BS

By Desi Cortez Columnist

The whimsical idea that the good ol’ USofA is a “shining city on the hill,” welcoming all exiles from around the globe , that we are good, decent, progressive-minded people is wrong and inaccurate; America is now today none of those things.

As an Afro-American, raised mostly in a large diverse city, Los Angeles, but moved to suburban Denver in the late 1970's at age 14, thus immersed…

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