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- Whitewashing Black History
by Isaac posted on 05/11/08
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by BradDuncan posted on 05/8/08
- Bollywood: Song, Dance, and Worker Insurgency
by Maeve66 posted on 05/2/08
- A People Centered Plan for Atlanta's Mass Transit
by Isaac posted on 04/30/08
- Marxist Blogs, Part One
by BradDuncan posted on 04/25/08
Hell On Wheels: Success & Failure of Reform in TWU 100
New from Solidarity! Long time transit worker activist Steve Downs has written a pamphlet charting the twenty year story of New Directions, a rank and file caucus in New York City's transit union that he helped build and develop - including the challenges of keeping the rank and file democracy movement alive after New Directions won control of the local.
Read a review and order your copy today!June Antiwar Conference: An Opportunity for the Movement
A broad list of endorsers (individuals and organizations) have issued the call for an "Open National Conference to Stop the War in Iraq and Bring the Troops Home Now," scheduled to take place in Cleveland, Ohio, this coming June 28-29.
Solidarity welcomes this development. Read more...
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From Abortion Rights to Reproductive Justice
New from Solidarity's Feminist Commission, this leaflet responds to the right wing attack on reproductive freedom and argues that the movement must go beyond "pro-choice" to true reproductive justice. This socialist and anti-racist feminist agenda would take up issues such as access to health and child care, forced sterilization, and the division of "productive" and "reproductive" labor.
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Whitewashing Black History
Submitted by Isaac on May 11, 2008 - 9:55pm.
The artist must elect to fight for freedom or for slavery. I have made my choice – I had no alternative. – Paul Robeson
A People Centered Plan for Atlanta's Mass Transit
Submitted by Isaac on April 30, 2008 - 2:49pm.
At long last, Atlanta Jobs with Justice has released their excellent study and plan for regional transit centered on the needs of riders and workers. You can download the report from Atlanta JwJ's website or download it directly here. The study is the project of years of research and organizing with the Transit Riders Union - a group of transit-dependent riders and disabled riders - and workers in our transit system, MARTA, who are represented by Amalgamated Transit Union 732. This is in our corner of the ring.
"War Zone" in downtown Atlanta
Submitted by Isaac on March 18, 2008 - 2:45pm.
Heavy storms and tornadoes ripped through downtown Atlanta and surrounding neighborhoods of Cabbagetown, East Atlanta, and Vine City last weekend. Media coverage following the storm conformed to the usual clichés: the twisters “sounded like freight trains” and their aftermath resembled a “war zone.” I can’t totally discredit either of these. I do live across the street from a freight line, wasn’t right across the street from the tornados, but I’m not too concerned with what they sounded like anyway. I did check out the damage afterwards and I am concerned with war zones. Like most USonians, have never experienced a war zone, but I’m not sure if the two realities match up exactly…
Love in the Movement
Submitted by Isaac on February 15, 2008 - 3:05pm.
Hey Lovers and Fighters –
Continuing my tendency totail respond to the writing of the fine folks over at FRSO/OSCL, some of this is influenced by a west coast Freedom Road comrade, Claire. You can read her article from last year here. Another Oakland (Solidarity) comrade made me promise I’d write some stuff on love and sex and relationships if she reposted something of hers from a few years ago on polyamory. So: here you go, sister!
Continuing my tendency to
Presidential horse race: ch-ch-ch-changes?
Submitted by Isaac on January 23, 2008 - 12:07am.
Hello out there in internet land!
Some of you may have noticed that we're knee deep in the so-called "political season." Yes, that's right, that’s when us ordinary folks are invited into debates about the issues of the day. Does this mean Warren Buffet’s attempts to stabilize the bond market house of cards? The US Navy’s clumsy attempt to manufacture a threat from Iranian speedboats in the Strait of Hormuz (through which almost all the world’s petroleum reaches market? Nope, it’s a presidential election year, and the main item on the menu is ChangeTM. Eager consumers of ChangeTM should be thrilled to learn it’s available in both Regular and Diet versions. Which version of ChangeTM do you like best? Check it out:
Some of you may have noticed that we're knee deep in the so-called "political season." Yes, that's right, that’s when us ordinary folks are invited into debates about the issues of the day. Does this mean Warren Buffet’s attempts to stabilize the bond market house of cards? The US Navy’s clumsy attempt to manufacture a threat from Iranian speedboats in the Strait of Hormuz (through which almost all the world’s petroleum reaches market? Nope, it’s a presidential election year, and the main item on the menu is ChangeTM. Eager consumers of ChangeTM should be thrilled to learn it’s available in both Regular and Diet versions. Which version of ChangeTM do you like best? Check it out:
Georgia Drought: You Don't Miss Your Water...
Submitted by Isaac on December 31, 2007 - 2:24pm.
...'till, as Otis Redding told us, "your well runs dry." Water crisis, often predicted to be one of the 21st century’s political flashpoints, has arrived in the southeastern United States. Over the past two years, the entire region has experienced a record-setting drought.
