Bill Fletcher, Jr.

Today the people of Gaza are victims of what both Israeli and Palestinian human rights activists correctly call collective punishment. After the Hamas/Fatah mini-civil war in which Hamas took over Gaza, allegedly because they believed that Fatah was preparing to attack them, the Israelis began a blockade (as well as military incursions) with the full…

It is easy to get swept up in the whirlwind. A serious African American candidate and a serious female candidate running in the same election is historic. A friend of mine (and fellow activist), commenting on the race said that while he agreed with former Senator John Edwards on the issues, he felt that the…

The current issue is always free to everyone In the aftermath of the Nevada caucuses, it is not entirely clear where the Edwards campaign is going, but I do not think that he can yet be counted out. Nevertheless, it is important that we reflect on the Edwards campaign and the weaknesses it has displayed.…

The second source of my anger has to do with the Clintons, and I use the plural here. If another Black person calls former President Bill Clinton the alleged “first Black President,” I think I will personally take their head off, followed by their arms and legs. Rather than treating Senator Obama’s candidacy as a…

The current issue is always free to everyone The recent elections and post-election riots in Kenya bring forward great sorrow and also give one pause. Is this another situation where Africans tear each other apart, one may ask? How is it that people who have lived next to one another can go after each other…

The current issue is always free to everyone It is amazing to think that we, the people of the United States, have come to accept torture. I know, I know, we protest it and shake our hands, but, truth be told, we have come to accept it. Around the time the Abu Ghraib prison scandal…

The current issue is always free to everyone The horror of the Katrina disaster did not unleash a mass upsurge. In witnessing the abandonment of hundreds of thousands of people, their dispersal into near anonymity around the country, and the efforts to demographically alter the Gulf Coast with the removal of the poor, the Black,…

The current issue is always free to everyone As we go deeper into the 2008 election season, I continue to be struck by the politics of symbolism that surround the race for the Democratic Party nomination. Perhaps if I were not as fearful as I am about both the situation in Iraq and the potential…