Racism and Self-Determination

No-knock terror, again – Abolish the police!

No one knocked on the door of the apartment where Amir Locke was sleeping before Minneapolis police used a key…

February 7, 2022

Free Leonard Peltier! COVID-19 inside prison

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic currently raging through the jail, prison and detention centers of this country, Leonard…

January 31, 2022

Mumia Abu-Jamal: ‘A new Freedom Now Movement’

Mumia Abu-Jamal’s commentaries are recorded by prisonradio.org/.  The great Caribbean revolutionary Franz Fanon wrote in his now-classic work, “The Wretched…

January 31, 2022

Cement workers strike transnational corporations

Seattle A major strike by concrete mixer drivers and cement plant workers against cement company bosses has shut down much…

January 31, 2022

Time for justice / Urgent need for change in Pennsylvania sentencing system

The writer is currently incarcerated at Pennsylvania’s SCI Coal Township. The Families Against Mandatory Minimum (FAMM) report points out the…

January 28, 2022

‘Sir Sidney Poitier’

The following is a lightly edited commentary. For nearly a century, Sir Sidney Poitier lived and worked in the United…

January 28, 2022

Theodore Roosevelt statue comes down

Over two long January nights — to avoid disrupting traffic and endangering pedestrians — an abhorrent statue of Theodore Roosevelt…

January 24, 2022

Broken promise on MLK holiday–Civil rights strike at Kaiser Hospital

Oakland Somehow, I thought they made Martin Luther King Day a paid holiday for all workers. Well, it seems Kaiser…

January 24, 2022

Seattle MLK rally and march

Seattle Over 2,000 demonstrators participated in a multinational march Jan. 17 at the 40th Annual Martin Luther King Day March…

January 24, 2022

Police charged for Fanta Bility murder

Delaware County Three Sharon Hill police in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, outside Philadelphia, were charged with manslaughter Jan. 18 for killing…

January 19, 2022