Issue: 880
September 23, 2021
Guest Commentary
With Texas Abortion Ban, Only Privileged Get Access to Reproductive Care
Guest Commentator
For too long, politicians relied on the Supreme Court to uphold the right to an abortion. Now that the Texas law has been allowed to take effect, its prime targets are low-income people of color.
Texas, with the help of conservative justices on the U.S. Supreme Court, has made abortion all but illegal for most pregnant people living within state borders.…
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Commentary
Will Democrats Fight for Public Education or Anything Else?
Columnist
Teachers are under increasing stress as Republican-aligned local parent and anti-pandemic groups are storming school board meetings demanding the abandonment or non-implementation of mitigation protocols—masking and social distancing. Democrats are largely paying lip service to these stark challenges and are off in an alternate political reality.
The Democratic Party is in crisis as to what it will do to defend itself as it is being surrounded by its Republican opponents. Its positions…
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Commentary
Sweatshops Are Us—U.S., That Is – Solidarity America
Columnist
It’s not that they can’t pay a decent wage. They just don’t want to pay a penny more than they have to for the work that is sweated from the people who sew up the clothing. And it doesn’t matter whether they sew for the top of the line or for knock-offs. It’s all the same exploitation.
All the sweatshops are not in Asia or in Central America. Los Angeles, California, is apparently full of them and they keep on stripping the workers…
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Guest Commentary
The Handcuffing of Joe Biden
Guest Commentator
Trump didn’t just tie his successor’s hands. He handcuffed them to the throttle of a runaway train.
The far-right would like to impeach Joe Biden, kick him out of the White House, perhaps even throw him in jail. "Lock him up" has been…
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Commentary
Thank You, Black Women
Editorial Board
They were determined that the recall effort would fail and even more determined when talk show, host Larry Elder, jumped into the race as the conservative favorite.
When California governor, Gavin Newsom, woke up on Wednesday, September 15, 2021, I hope he fell to his knees and said, “Thank you, God, thank you,…
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Commentary
Archbishop Carl Bean’s “I Was Born This Way”
Editorial Board
Archbishop Bean worked tirelessly for the liberation of the underserved and for LGBTQ people of faith and, in doing so, helped many around the world find their way back to spirituality and religion,"
This May, when Lady Gaga celebrated the 10th anniversary of her hit album "Born this Way," she gave an acknowledgment shoutout to Bishop Carl Bean (May…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
What “America” Does Trump’s “Cult” Wish, Pray and Dream-Of?
Columnist
the “Right” apparently believes terms like “unity,” “diversity,” “equality” and “inclusion” are today, in 21st century America, “dirty” words, “fightin’” words in the intolerant minds of America’s vast white population.
I’ve got what I calculate is a “legitimate and pressing question for Trump’s America...” Those European Americans who’ve anointed themselves as the only true, legit 100%…
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