January 27, 2022
View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
This is the human toll it took to break open the prisoners’ rights movement and simultaneously create the blueprint for the imminent prison industrial complex.
If you have an interest and the intestinal fortitude, I encourage you to experience Attica, the documentary. Filmmaker Stanley Nelson brings the Attica massacre to the…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
The Third Reich, we must remember, was democratically elected at first. Hitler had a mandate, perverted as it was. People needed a boogeyman to blame for all of their problems, and the fascist narrative was made to order.
There was a very revealing story that made it in the news recently, but did not get the attention one would expect. A DNA test was…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
The strikers won improved requirements on staffing, a critical issue for health care workers everywhere, and stood up to Tenet’s creative attempts to break the union.
Last year’s longest-running strike came to an end in early January when nurses at St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts, overwhelmingly voted to ratify their new…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
Even the new administration’s signature phrase “America is back” suggests restoration rather than transformation. Like a corporate team scrambling to reestablish brand loyalty after a disastrous product failure, the Biden team has repeatedly emphasized reassurance.
In its first year in office, the Biden administration has done a reasonably good job of reversing the idiocies of its predecessor. It has failed, however,…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
Almost like clockwork, some politician will echo (arrogantly and without shame) a select passage of the iconic speech that the late civil rights leader delivered during the March on Washington in 1963.
I’ve got to hand it to the GOP and a couple of centrist Democrats - they certainly know how to misinterpret and misrepresent the message of…
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