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BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member and Columnist, Bill Fletcher, Jr., is the executive editor of globalafricanworker.com, former president of TransAfrica Forum, and a lifetime trade unionist. He is a Senior Scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies, and the author of The Man Who Changed Colors, “They’re Bankrupting Us” - And Twenty Other Myths about Unions and the novel The Man Who Fell From the Sky. He is also the co-author of Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice, which examines the crisis of organized labor in the USA. Mr. Fletcher is also Co-editor of "Claim No Easy Victories: The Legacy of Amilcar Cabral". Other Bill Fletcher, Jr. writing can be found at billfletcherjr.com. Contact Mr. Fletcher and BC.
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The African World
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It suggests that the USA will continue to exert its influence through implied threats.
When President Obama was first elected, in 2008, much of the world waited to see what sorts of changes he would introduce in the relationship of…
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terrorism is, in fact, being used in the USA as a word to describe political killings that serve a political motive that arbitrarily place white people in danger.
The bombings in Boston left me with a feeling of having been kicked in the stomach. They represented an atrocity. And in the immediate aftermath I…
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Am I hallucinating? Is this actually on mainstream television?
Showtime is re-running Oliver Stone’s ten part documentary, The Untold History of the United States. Truth be told, I stumbled across this when it was originally…
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The African World
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August 2013 represents the 50th anniversary of the historic March on Washington. Publicly associated with Dr. King’s famous “I have a Dream” speech, this march brought more than 250,000 people to Washington, DC to demand freedom and jobs. Initiated by Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters President A. Philip Randolph, this became a joint project with…
August 2013 represents the 50th anniversary of the historic March on Washington. Publicly associated with Dr. King’s famous “I have a Dream” speech, this march brought…
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The debate over the use of drones took a very odd turn when it became clear that the Obama administration did not wish to state, categorically, that there would be no drone strikes against targets in the USA. Watching Attorney General Eric Holder bob and weave was actually quite fascinating and at the same time…
The debate over the use of drones took a very odd turn when it became clear that the Obama administration did not wish to state, categorically,…
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A friend of mine said that when he heard the news of the death of President Chavez that it felt as if someone had hit him in the stomach. I could not have put it more concisely nor more honestly. While I knew that the likelihood of his recovering was very slight, I suppose that…
A friend of mine said that when he heard the news of the death of President Chavez that it felt as if someone had hit him…
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The African World
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The day after former Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. pled guilty to a series of corruption charges I found myself engaged in a discussion with two African American colleagues. The atmosphere was one of sadness and frustration. “What could he have been thinking?” we asked each other. We shook our heads. I have met the former…
The day after former Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. pled guilty to a series of corruption charges I found myself engaged in a discussion with two African…
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“We all wanted to kill ‘niggers’…beats rabbit hunting…” -White US soldier commenting on the Philippine-US War[i] One of the least known conflicts in US history was the Philippine-US War. The length of the war is, itself, a subject of some debate, having ended according to many historians in 1901, but actually lasting closer to 1913.…
“We all wanted to kill ‘niggers’…beats rabbit hunting…” -White US soldier commenting on the Philippine-US War[i] One of the least known conflicts in US history was…
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The entrance of the French military into the Malian civil war further complicates a descent into hell which that country has been experiencing for the last two years. Mainstream media attention has largely focused on the emergence of right-wing Islamists associated with Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, and the threat that this poses to…
The entrance of the French military into the Malian civil war further complicates a descent into hell which that country has been experiencing for the last…
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