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BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator Eric Mann, the director of the Labor/Community Strategy Center, is a veteran of the Congress of Racial Equality, Newark Community Union Project, Students for a Democratic Society, United Auto Workers, and League of Revolutionary Struggle. He is the author of Playbook for Progressives: 16 Qualities of the Successful Organizer and the host of KPFK Pacifica's Voices from the Frontlines. For more information about his work and this period please visit the Eric Mann and Lian Hurst Mann archives at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Contact Mr. Mann or visit his blog (ericmannblog.blogspot.com).
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A film showing how the so called “bi-partisan” anti-communist alliance in the United States organized the Cold War and the Hollywood Black list is badly needed.
“Why does the film make no mention of lynching, poll taxes or trace that racism to the Democratic Party as Trumbo and Fast did? Why not…
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I am deeply troubled by President Obama’s role in this process and want to put forth some positive and necessary programmatic proposals.
The President is the main obstacle to progress in Paris. Contrary to his view that he is “dragging the world behind me to Paris" (as he…
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On Tuesday, March 5, 2013, two events happened of diametrically opposed moral and historical significance – the end of the life of the great world leader, Hugo Chavez, and the death of the Los Angeles mayoral elections. In between yawns and “oh, was there some kind of election in the news that I missed?” 8…
On Tuesday, March 5, 2013, two events happened of diametrically opposed moral and historical significance - the end of the life of the great world leader,…
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Drama. Starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio. Directed by Sam Mendes. “Revolutionary Road” is an important, gripping, must-see film. The dynamics between April Wheeler (played by Kate Winslet) and her husband, Frank Wheeler (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) are painfully and vividly gripping. This is the tragedy of suburbia and women’s oppression inside the suburban, nuclear…
Drama. Starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio. Directed by Sam Mendes. “Revolutionary Road” is an important, gripping, must-see film. The dynamics between April Wheeler (played by…
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For those of us who are in the Civil Rights, Immigrant Rights, Women’s Liberation, Environmental Justice, and Anti-War Movements, for those of us on the Left, the election of Barack Obama is of the utmost urgency. Voting for Barack Obama is not enough. Through November 4, 2008 we need to put all our energy into…
For those of us who are in the Civil Rights, Immigrant Rights, Women’s Liberation, Environmental Justice, and Anti-War Movements, for those of us on the Left,…
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The Opening Argument Hillary Clinton is running an increasingly desperate, unprincipled, and racist campaign against Barack Obama. She must be stopped. At this moment in history the defeat of Hillary Clinton and the victory of Barack Obama in the forthcoming Democratic Party primaries in Pennsylvania, Guam, Indiana, North Carolina, West Virginia, Kentucky, Oregon, Montana, South…
The Opening Argument Hillary Clinton is running an increasingly desperate, unprincipled, and racist campaign against Barack Obama. She must be stopped. At this moment in history…
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