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Send contributions to: ChickenBones: A Journal / 2005 Arabian Drive / Finksburg, MD 21048-- Rudy, I don't know if I've mentioned it recently but 'bones looks great. There's not much out there to compete with it as a presenter of Black literary and philosophical thought. I'm constantly referring folk to it. Chuck (9/28/07) We have received thus far $200 in Donations in October 2009. Help meet our monthly goal of $500. Donate Today! or Visit ChickenBones Store (Books, DVDs, Music, and more) Or make use of ChickenBones Publishing Services (Page editing, Critiques, and Book Promotion) / Stand By Me (video)
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Bring the Troops Home: "A time comes when silence is betrayal." Beyond Vietnam A Time to Break Silence (Martin Luther King) Martin Luther King, "Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam" / MLK: Mountaintop Speech (on War) Robert Byrd: I Weep For My Country: The Arrogance of Power / Deeper into the Mouth of Hell / John le Carré: The United States of America Has Gone Mad |
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Is Our High-Tech Health Care System Better Than War-Ravaged Sudan's? By David Morse |
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By Margaret Kimberley BAR editor and senior columnist |
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Sam and Dave by Kalamu ya Salaam (May 18, 2009) (see videos) Right-Wing Radio Host Gets Waterboarded, and Lasts Six Seconds / Behind the Scenes: Presidential Trip June 2 - 7 |
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ChickenBones Best Poetry Book of 2008
An Unmistakable Shade of Red & The Obama Chronicles New book of poems by Mary E.Weems Mary E. Weems Table 4 Closure Poems Mary Weems on YouTube Nomination |
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Black Poetic is a social consciousness raising, performance troupe I belong to that uses poetry to enlighten, inspire, and educate the Black community and the community at large with an emphasis on Black youth.—Peace, Mary |
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Pilgrimage to an Ancestral Land: Ghana By Miriam DeCosta-Willis Miriam in Ghana Notes from a Scholar's Journal |
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Miriam DeCosta-Willis: Rising and Recovering from the Water-Logged Ashes (A Review of The Katrina Papers) Etheridge Knight's Love Songs to Women / The Ground Beneath Her Feet / New Day A-Dawning / Song for a Poet Gone / Through My Open Window Ties that bind / Third Wave Feminism (Miriam DeCosta-Willis) / The Memphis Diary of Ida B. Wells / Homespun Images |
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Curtis Mayfield was the wail of black America. By Kalamu ya Salaam |
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Atlanta Constitution on Race Problem Origin of Segregation Intermarriage a No-No Who Wants Integration The Problem of Integration The Racial Problem |
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Historical Fiction by Eugene Walton Recasting the Statue of Freedom by Eugene Walton |
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Mourning Katrina: A Poetic Response to Tragedy . . . is about devastation and mourning, about the failure of humanity to act humanely, about the politics of poverty and race, but it is also about hope and healing. The poets give voice to the rainbow that comes after the storm and the revival of spirit that comes out of the depths of tested faith. All of them share a willingness to see beyond their sorrow to reinvent the spirit of "Laissez les bon temps rouler!" Though human suffering shaped the beginning of this project, the result of it is a morning of hope and inspiration |
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I Studied My Own Self Obama's Dreams of My Father Review by Rudolph Lewis |
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Black Studies in the Age of Obama
By Dr. Muhammad Ahmad
Jordan Flaherty.
Media as a Weapon: New Orleans' 2-Cent
(May 22, 2009)
Hip Hop
Resistance in Gaza (June 5, 2009)
Nooses and a
legal lynching in Jena, Louisiana Jena
Ignites a Movement
The Price of Racial Reconciliation / Contents White Nationalism / White Nationalism Reviews / Introduction White Nationalism Legitimacy to Lead |
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UWI honours sixteen of the Region's beacons Cave Hill, May 25, 2009 |
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The Fourth World Multiculturalism as Antidote to Global Violence Chinua Achebe: The Man and His Works (2006) / An Africana Blueprint for Living / Igbo Marriage (photos and commentary) |
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Self-testing and Glucose Meters from Ben Schwartz |
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Choreographing the Folk: The Dance Stagings of Zora Neale Hurston (Review by Kam Williams) Zora Neale Hurston: Court Order Can't Make Races Mix / The Black Joan of Arc |
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Memoir of My Association With Eldridge Cleaver By
Marvin X
Marvin X Celebrates
His 65th Birthday
On May 29,
2009 / contact:
j_vern_cromartie@yahoo.com
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Marvin X: On Driving While Black in Post Racial Texas / Oakland, Toward Radical Spirituality / Death from the Loss of Desire
An Open Letter
to President Obama (Lewis) /
Poetry and National Security
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Dwayne Betts.
A Question of
Freedom: A Memoir of
Learning, Survival,
and Coming of Age in
Prison
(2009):
At the age of
sixteen, R. Dwayne
Betts—a good student
from a
lower-middle-class
family—carjacked a
man with a friend.
He had never held a
gun before, but
within a matter of
minutes he had
committed six
felonies. In
Virginia, carjacking
is a “certifiable”
offense, meaning
that Dwayne would be
treated as an adult
under state law. A
bright young kid,
weighing only 126
pounds—not enough to
fill out a medium
T-shirt—he served
his eight-year
sentence as part of
the adult population
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Hopkins first African-American PhD By Keith Parent |
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Miriam DeCosta-Willis Rising and Recovering from the Water-Logged Ashes / Etheridge Knight's Love Songs to Women A Review of The Katrina Papers by Jerry W. Ward, Jr. The Ground Beneath Her Feet / New Day A-Dawning / Song for a Poet Gone / Through My Open Window Ties that bind Third Wave Feminism (Miriam DeCosta-Willis) / The Memphis Diary of Ida B. Wells Homespun Images |
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Towards a Black Aesthetic By Hoyt W. Fuller, Author of Journey to Africa |
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Seneca Turner's Thoughts upon Revisiting Hip Hop A Rejoinder Beyond Either/Or Thinking April 28, 2009 |
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June 20, 2009 |
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ChickenBones Best Book of 2009
Women Talking to Michele Vas-y, Parle à Michelle Par: Jacqueline Jean-Baptiste |
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Anthologies: New Negro Poets U.S.A. Black Fire The Black Poets Black Nationalism in America 360° A Revolution of Black Poets I am because we are and since we are therefore I am (The Soho of South Africa ) / The society made up of brothers and sisters provides strength. (Igbo of Nigeria) |
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Poet Laureate Eugene B. Redmond Eighty Moods of Maya / Images and Homages: "Memwars" April is National Poetry Month For Rudy Lewis By Richard Lawson
Media Crisis and Grassroots Response |
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"Black Schools Kill Smart Niggers?” By Mark Anthony Neal |
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By Harold R. Isaacs The White Masters of the World from The World and Africa, 1965 W. E. B. Du Bois’ Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization (Fletcher) Africa and Afro-American Identity (Everett E. Goodwin)
The 10 Biggest Myths About Black History The Black Experience in America is Unique / Folk Life in Black and White |
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Speeches & Sermons: -- The American Dream is Under Siege at Home (Bill Clinton) / Time to Take Back the Country We Love (Hillary Clinton) The America George Bush Has Left Us (Joe Biden) / We Must Listen and Lead by Example (John Kerry) / Seize this Opportunity for Change (Al Gore) |
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First Black President Cuts Funds for Black Higher Education A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford May 17, 2009 |
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Ralph Clingan Lively Living Word / An Annual Clingan Christmas Letter / Against Cheap Grace / Nuking Westerns and White Manliness |
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Film Review of American Violet by Kam Williams Barry Bonds and Alex Rodriguez (Jean Damu) Blame A-Rod, Spoil the Child (William Broussard) Etta James: The Caged Bird Sings (Amin Sharif) Is There a Need for a Black Agenda? (Ron Daniels) The More Perfect Union or Reconstruction Blues? Responses by E. Ethelbert Miller and Wilson J. Moses |
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The Cost of Lies -- America With Its Pants Down The Dark Side of Obedience Locked Up A Lie Unravels the World Lies Truth and Unwaged Housework |
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Stand Up Against Police Brutality--In the city of Philadelphia and the state of Pennsylvania from May 2008 until April 2009 there have been 36 unarmed African American men killed by the Philadelphia Police Department. The racist Fraternal Order of Police has also gone after a strong and courageous African American judge, Judge Craig Washington. The reason for this vicious attack is because he refuses to turn his courtroom into a tool of propaganda for the Philadelphia Police Department.Bro. Robert - African American Freedom and Reconstruction League; Sister Debbie Moore and Bro. Harold Fisher, Attorney Leon A. Williams -- more information 215-474-3677 215-732-0180 |
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Gun Violence: The American Way—Since Sept. 11, 2001, when the country’s attention understandably turned to terrorism, nearly 120,000 Americans have been killed in nonterror homicides, most of them committed with guns. Think about it — 120,000 dead. That’s nearly 25 times the number of Americans killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. For the most part, we pay no attention to this relentless carnage. The idea of doing something meaningful about the insane number of guns in circulation is a nonstarter. So what if eight kids are shot to death every day in America. So what if someone is killed by a gun every 17 minutes. The goal of the National Rifle Association and a host of so-called conservative lawmakers is to get ever more guns into the hands of ever more people. Texas is one of a number of states considering bills to allow concealed guns on college campuses. Supporters argue, among other things, that it will enable students and professors to defend themselves against mass murderers, like the deranged gunman who killed 32 people at Virginia Tech two years ago. They’d like guns to be as ubiquitous as laptops or cellphones. One Texas lawmaker referred to unarmed people on campuses as “sitting ducks.” NYTimes |
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Eighty Moods of Maya / Images and Homages: "Memwars" Two Decades of Drumvoices Revue |
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Past, Present, and Future Introduction to Black Liberation in Conservative America (1997) By Manning Marable |
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The State of Black-Asian Relations: Interrogating Black-Asian Coalition Paul Robeson's Greetings to Bandung |
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Speeches & Sermons: -- The American Dream is Under Siege at Home (Bill Clinton) / Time to Take Back the Country We Love (Hillary Clinton) The America George Bush Has Left Us (Joe Biden) / We Must Listen and Lead by Example (John Kerry) / Seize this Opportunity for Change (Al Gore) |
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Africa and Afro-American Identity Problems and Possibilities By Everett E. Goodwin The 10 Biggest Myths About Black History The Black Experience in America is Unique Folk Life in Black and White |
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The Employee Free Choice Act—If we want to propel this economy forward [and] have a sound expansion, it has to be an expansion whose benefits are more broadly shared . . . [it] goes to the question of having a healthy and well-functioning trade union movement. . . . It is hard to avoid the conclusion that the way in which our labor laws have functioned, and have been enforced and been acted on over many years, have not been constructive from the point of view of having a healthy trade union movement. And an attempt to redress that balance seems to me something that is appropriate at such a time.—Lawrence H. Summers, the National Economic Council director, Brookings Institution, 13 March 2009 WashingtonPost |
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African Slave Castle (video) A Forum on the Role of the Poet and Poetry Poem by Amin Sharif The Free Southern Theatre Institute a Venue for Truth-Telling |
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for Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong) By Professor ARTURO Malcolm SHINE and THE TITANIC Poem for Our Fathers Poem for Our Mothers |
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I'll be interviewed about my upcoming book (My Name Is New Orleans: 40 Years of Poetry and Other Jazz) and read from the text on an online radio show (Neutral Ground) on Wed., May 27 at 9 PM EST. Hit www.blogtalkradio.com/onword . Anyone can listen to the show live or listen from the archive later. It can also be downloaded if you want to put it on a website or MP3 player. NOO AWLINS 2 DUH MAX!!!!!!!!--Professor ARTURO |
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A Review of The Bandana Republic A Literary Anthology by Gang Members & Their Affiliates Edited by Louis Reyes Rivera and Bruce George By Amin Sharif From Gangs of the Ghetto to Gangstas of the Inner City (Ted Wilson) The First Time I Heard Billie (Sharif) |
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The Fifth Element: Send Forth the Word! / The First Time I Heard Billie (Sharif)
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The Niggerization of Palestine (Jonathan Scott) Slow Death in Gaza Olmert Smote the Philistines Israeli Offensive on Gaza Continues The Biggest Jailbreak in History An Open Letter to President Barack Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan From Educators of African Ancestry By Andrea Barnwell |
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Music Musicians / Living Legends / Robert Johnson and other Bluesmen / One Mississippi, Two Mississippi: John Hurt. Fred McDowell |
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Shaping Culture through Public Art By Carolyn Warfield Center of 19th Century Textile History Potential & Extraordinary Rendition Poems by Ayodele Nzinga Malik Zulu Shabazz, New Black Panther Chairman Speaks on Everything from Obama to Gaza Interview by Kam Williams |
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A Statement of Racism & Racial Oppression: "The virtuous aspirations of our children must be continually checked by the knowledge that no matter how upright their conduct, they will be looked upon as less worthy than the lowest wretch who wears a white skin. Daily Star (Alabama) 21 May 1867 [James S. Allen, Reconstruction: The Battle for Democracy (1937), pp. 237-238] |
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Mona Lisa, Lakeside and the N-Word Poem, Parent Letter, and Poet’s Response |
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ChickenBones Best Book of 2008 The Katrina Papers: A Journal of Trauma and Recovery Seeing Things from Inside the Circle Returning to the Sources / Imprisonment in Holding Cells at Tulane and Broad / Literary New Orleans |
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Kalamu ya Salaam: What Is Life: Reclaiming the Black Blues Self and 360° A Revolution of Black Poets and a moment in a mississippi juke joint |
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What to Do with "Deception and Deviltry” (Lewis) / Community Organizer vs. Corrupt Politician (Bruce A. Dixon) Wilson's Obama Poem Responses to Barack Obama Winning The Presidency |
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The N Word, Go Tell Michele, and other Books By Rudolph Lewis Black Boys and Burning Midnight Oil / Dust Bowls and Wading Pools By Beverly Fields Burnette By Marvin X |
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A Letter to Warren on the "Contours of Racial Identity" from Dr. Joyce E. King Humility does not mean you think less of yourself—it means you think of yourself less. We are not here to earn God's love, we're here to spend it! The world is my country; to do good is my religion. No one shows a child the Supreme Being. Change how you see things, and the things you see will change.—Nana Yao Opare Dinizulu I |
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Seat_at_the_Table—Memo from John D. Podesta, Co-chair—The Obama-Biden Transition Project—Revitalizing the Economy / Ending the War in Iraq Providing Health Care for All / Protecting America / Renewing American Global Leadership. Change.gov |
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The 10 Best Black Books of 2008 (Non-Fiction) By Kam Williams The 10 Best Black Books of 2007 From Orenthal to Obama: Who Has the Juice? By E. Ethelbert Miller E-Notes |
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When a Job Disappears, So Does the Health Care— December 7, 2008— About 10.3 million Americans were unemployed in November, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The number of unemployed has increased by 2.8 million, or 36 percent, since January of this year, and by 4.3 million, or 71 percent, since January 2001. . . . . Some parts of the federal safety net are more responsive to economic distress. The number of people on food stamps set a record in September, with 31.6 million people receiving benefits, up by two million in one month. Nearly 4.4 million people are receiving unemployment insurance benefits, an increase of 60 percent in the past year. But more than half of unemployed workers are not receiving help because they do not qualify or have exhausted their benefits. About 1.7 million families receive cash under the main federal-state welfare program, little changed from a year earlier. Welfare serves about 4 of 10 eligible families and fewer than one in four poor children. NYTimes Single-Payer Health Care Would Stimulate Economy |
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For Dr. Nina Simone Poem by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie Mother Nature: Thoughts on Nourishing Your Body, Mind, and Spirit During Pregnancy and Beyond www.ekeretallie.com |
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BoL -- Music Commentary by Mtume & Kalamu Drums, Trains, / Boogie Down Productions / Earth, Wind & Fire / Max Roach and Abbey Lincoln WAR / "Body and Soul" / Nina Simone / Bob Marley / Alice Coltrane / James Brown / Staple Singers / Police Brutality and Rappers
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Guns, Butter, and Obama—While the "official" 2009 U.S. military budget is $516 billion, that figure bears little resemblance to what this country actually spends. According to CDI, if one pulls together all the various threads that make up the defense spending tapestry - including Home Security, secret "black budget" items, military-related programs outside of the Defense Department, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and such outlays as veterans' benefits - the figure is around $862 billion for the current fiscal year. Johnson says spending is closer to $1.1 trillion. Even these figures are misleading, since it does not project future costs. According to Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, when the economic and social costs of the Iraq War are finally added up—including decades of treatment for veterans disabled by traumatic brain injury and post traumatic stress disorder—the final bill could reach $5 trillion. . . . A recent study by a Pentagon advisory group, the Defense Business Board, says that current defense spending is "not sustainable" and recommends scaling back or eliminating some big-ticket weapon systems. . . . While Obama has pledged to stress diplomacy over warfare, he has also promised to "maintain the most powerful military on the planet" and to increase the armed forces by some 90,000 soldiers. According to the Congressional Budget Office, that will cost at least $50 billion over five years. CommonDreams |
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The State of HBCUs for Black Students & Faculty / Wole Soyina Kongi's Harvest / African Hungarian—Klara Bassey (Hakeem Babalola) |
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Rodney D. Foxworth, Jr.-- School Daze A Depravity of Logic A Naïve Political Treatise A Report on a Gathering at Red Emma's Urban Legends |
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Women Bringing New Strength to Unions (Dick Meister) / Don't Let Them Destroy Our Union (Frank Hammer) |
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Beverly Jenai: Do Cowboys Dance? That Which Binds The Painting My Friend Yictove |
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remembering professor lorenzo thomas The Cruelty of Age in Lorenzo Thomas' “Tirade” Poetry and National Security Lorenzo Thomas Panel |
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Poem by Jeannette Drake Jeannette Drake Table / The Truth May Not Set Us Free / Give Peace a Chance / Obama Prayer |
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"Arise and go, your faith has made you well" (Luke 17 v. 15-19). / / / Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will (I Thessalonians 5, v. 18). How the markets really work (from 2007): How did these comedians see it coming when financial reporters did not? Brasschecktv |
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Blues as Secularized Spirituals Brief Thoughts on Cadillac Records and the Power and Importance of McKinley Morganfield By C. Liegh McInnis |
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A Short History of “When the Levee Breaks”—On Saturday [30 August 2008], a million citizens fled Louisiana for safer ground, after Hurricane Gustav metamorphosed into a Category 4 hurricane in a mere 24 hours. It is scheduled to slam into the U.S. almost exactly three years after Hurricane Katrina did the same, visiting the kind of disaster dystopia one usually sees in film or music. . . . Louisiana authorities explain that there will be no shelter for those left behind or who choose to stay behind. It's a familiar refrain for those caught up in this recurring environmental nightmare, perhaps more familiar than you think. "When the Levee Breaks" was first created by the Delta bluesmen Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie. Listen to the original. / Where's Fats Domino? |
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Rudy's Place : Sussex County: A Tale of Three Centuries Public Education in Sussex County in Black and White History of Jerusalem Baptist Church
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(WHO IS prepared to hold our torch of Democracy) By Beverly Jenai Do Cowboys Dance? That Which Binds The Painting My Friend Yictove Bevjenai Obama Order Page |
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Commentary on ChickenBones—I want to say that you have given a wonderful gift to humankind by establishing and maintaining ChickenBones. In the history of African American journals of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, I rank your magazine with Negro Digest/Black World, which was "blessed" to have the financial backing of Johnson Publications. It is required reading for people who wish to be informed about the trajectories of thought in the contemporary world. It is a dynamic, growing textbook that ought to be used in courses on African American literature and culture. I am using it as an external link for the course I teach this semester on the Foundations of African American Literature. My students need to know that academic journals do not tell us everything. So, thank you Rudy for your gift to black folks and everybody else. Peace and brotherhood, Jerry Ward, Jr. (24 August 2008)
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Cliff Chandler, musician and detective novelist: Chandler Bio The Paragons In Search Of Our Culture Devastated Sir Charles Mingus |
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Love One Another / The Ancestors Are Not Really Dead / Into His Arms / On Learning of Walter Rodney's Death & Other Poems |
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Single Payer Health Care and the Auto Industry By Bruce Dixon |
If the Auto Industry is Dead What does that Mean for Workers? By Mark Brenner and Jane Slaughter |
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Trouble don' set like rain: Economic Crises in Jamaica John Maxwell Why South Sudan Want Obama to Lose White House Bid (Mulumba) / Obama and the Israeli Lobby (Uri Avnery) |
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Ekere Tallie --Forced Entry A Poem for A Man WhoKnows Elemental Sounds Permanent Rain Reunion Jazz Musicians Suddenly I Need One Thing Constant |
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Interview with Larry Ukali Johnson-Redd Author of Loving Black Women Remembering Chinwe History to Destiny Through Afrocentric Poetry Waiting for You My Beautiful Wife Journey to the Motherland |
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Gook: John McCain’s Racism and Why It Matters White Privilege ,White Entitlement Raising McCain (Lloyd Williams) The Cost of Lies -- America With Its Pants Down |
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“The Supreme Court has surrendered. . . . It has destroyed the Civil Rights Bills, and converted the Republican Party into a party of money rather than a party of morals." -- Frederick Douglass, 1894 |
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After Hours: A Collection of Erotic Writing by Black Men -- Simmons Review After Hours Contributors / Love, Sex, and Erotica Table
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Claude McKay and Michael Manley Defying the Ideological Clash and Policy Gaps in African Diaspora Relations By Lloyd D. McCarthy |
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A Negro Folktale from Sam Greenlee's "Djarkarta Blues" How the Riots Might Have Turned Out Sam GreenLee's Book as Film Be-Bop Man/Be-Bop Woman When Desoree Danced |
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How US Energy Policy Got Militarized—The association between "energy security" (as it's now termed) and "national security" was established long ago. President Franklin D. Roosevelt first forged this association way back in 1945, when he pledged to protect the Saudi Arabian royal family in return for privileged American access to Saudi oil. The relationship was given formal expression in 1980, when President Jimmy Carter told Congress that maintaining the uninterrupted flow of Persian Gulf oil was a "vital interest" of the United States, and attempts by hostile nations to cut that flow would be countered "by any means necessary, including military force." To implement this "doctrine," Carter ordered the creation of a Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force, specifically earmarked for combat operations in the Persian Gulf area. President Ronald Reagan later turned that force into a full-scale regional combat organization, the U.S. Central Command, or CENTCOM. Every president since Reagan has added to CENTCOM's responsibilities, endowing it with additional bases, fleets, air squadrons, and other assets. As the country has, more recently, come to rely on oil from the Caspian Sea basin and Africa, U.S. military capabilities are being beefed up in those areas as well. Alternet |
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Deng and Alek: Lovers Paradise Lost Short story by Jane Musoke-Nteyafas |
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"ChickenBones: A Journal," an online journal . . . There's nothing like it on the web, with fascinating poems, essays, reviews, and articles by all kinds of people from many cultures. . . . —Miriam Black Librarians Table / David Parks' Letters / A Post Industrial Blues / Monroe N. Work Intro Monroe N. Work Bibliography of the Negro Gullah Festival in Beaufort South Carolina, 2008 by Junious Ricardo Stanton Grace Lee Boggs: Crime Among Our People Conversation about Religion Give Detroit Schools a Fresh Start |
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Notable Black Memphians by Miriam DeCosta-Willis—This biographical and historical study by Miriam DeCosta-Willis (PhD, Johns Hopkins University and the first African American faculty member of Memphis State University) traces the evolution of a major Southern city through the lives of men and women who overcame social and economic barriers to create artistic works, found institutions, and obtain leadership positions that enabled them to shape their community. Documenting the accomplishments of Memphians who were born between 1795 and 1972, it contains photographs and biographical sketches of 223 individuals (as well as brief notes on 122 others), such as musicians Isaac Hayes and Aretha Franklin, activists Ida B. Wells and Benjamin L. Hooks, politicians Harold Ford Sr. and Jr., writers Sutton Griggs and Jerome Eric Dickey, and Bishop Charles Mason and Archbishop James Lyke—all of whom were born in Memphis or lived in the city for over a decade. . . . |
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Third Wave Feminism (Miriam DeCosta-Willis) The Memphis Diary of Ida B. Wells Homespun Images Through My Open Window Ties that bind |
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The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones / Biblical Scholars / ChickenBones Interviews / Depression Shopping List Your Whiteness is Showing (Tim Wise ) Lingering Issues in Achebe's Female Characterisation (Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye) Book Discussion: The Beautiful Struggle (video): Atlantic contributor Ta-Nehisi Coates reads passages Nuking Nagasaki & Hiroshima, Our Nuking Nevada / / Like a Tortoise Shell / Asa G. Hilliard III Obituary
The Exhilarating Generosity of Asa Hilliard / Slow Death in Gaza (Margaret Kimberley) "Djimbe Danse" Artwork (left) by Chuck Siler |
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Driving Drops as Gas Prices Hit $4—The Department of Transportation said figures from March show the steepest decrease in driving ever recorded. . . .Compared with March a year earlier, Americans drove an estimated 4.3 percent less—that's 11 billion fewer miles, the DOT's Federal Highway Administration said day, calling it "the sharpest yearly drop for any month in FHWA history." Records have been kept since 1942. . . . According to AAA, the national average price for a gallon of regular gas rose to a record $3.936. That compares with an average price per gallon of $3.23 last Memorial Day. . . . The Energy Information Administration says gas consumption for the first three months of 2008 is estimated to be down about 0.6 percent from the same time period in 2007. For the summer season, gas consumption is expected to be down 0.4 percent from last year Money AOL |
We Are A Dancing People Leslie Garland Bolling Wendy Stand Up with Your Proud Hair! Badge of Honor: Coming of Age |
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Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye Will Obasanjo Explode Yar'Adua's Anti-Graft Balloon? Who Cares If Kenya Bleeds To Death? Obasanjo's Probe: Mr. Ribadu’s Redeeming Job / In Nigeria, Yar’Adua Reigns, Obasanjo Rules / Dinner From A Lagos Dustbin Global News: Politics Visit Our Store (Books, DVDs, Music, and more)
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Vince Rogers: Talk To Me / Kings of Crunk / Bad Brains / Legends and Legacies / Necromancers of Negritude & Other Thoughts / Griot |
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Of St. Augustine, the African Restless Heart, and Search for Peace: St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430 A.D.) – Feast Day - August 28 Dr. Rose Ure Mezu / Preface to Chinua Achebe: The Man and His Works (Rose Ure Mezu) / Chinua Achebe: The Man and His Works |
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Nappy Headed Women By Peggy Bertram
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The Osu Caste Discrimination in Igboland (Victor Dike) / World Empire and the Balance of Power (James Burnham) |
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Studies: Iraq Costs US $12B Per Month—The flow of blood may be ebbing, but the flood of money into the Iraq war is steadily rising, new analyses show. In 2008, its sixth year, the war will cost approximately $12 billion a month, triple the ''burn'' rate of its earliest years, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and co-author Linda J. Bilmes report in a new book. Beyond 2008, working with ''best-case'' and ''realistic-moderate'' scenarios, they project the Iraq and Afghan wars, including long-term U.S. military occupations of those countries, will cost the U.S. budget between $1.7 trillion and $2.7 trillion—or more—by 2017.Interest on money borrowed to pay those costs could alone add $816 billion to that bottom line, they say. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has done its own projections and comes in lower, forecasting a cumulative cost by 2017 of $1.2 trillion to $1.7 trillion for the two wars, with Iraq generally accounting for three-quarters of the costs. NYTimes |
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Fats Domino, Ray Charles, and Jerry Lee Lewis / The Holloway Series in Poetry - Amiri Baraka / Bill Moyers and James Cone (Interview) |
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Black Girl in Her Search for God Tending One’s Own Garden (Shaw) The Saga of Bigger Thomas (Theophilus Lewis) At The Center of 19th Century Textile History (Carolyn Warfield) Staying Alive for the New Struggle (Rudolph Lewis) Marxism and the Monks (J. Damu) Of Monks and Ministers (Marvin X) |
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The three trillion dollar war—The cost of direct US military operations—not even including long-term costs such as taking care of wounded veterans—already exceeds the cost of the 12-year war in Vietnam and is more than double the cost of the Korean War. And, even in the best case scenario, these costs are projected to be almost ten times the cost of the first Gulf War, almost a third more than the cost of the Vietnam War, and twice that of the First World War. The only war in our history which cost more was the Second World War, when 16.3 million U.S. troops fought in a campaign lasting four years, at a total cost (in 2007 dollars, after adjusting for inflation) of about $5 trillion (that's $5 million million, or £2.5 million million). With virtually the entire armed forces committed to fighting the Germans and Japanese, the cost per troop (in today's dollars) was less than $100,000 in 2007 dollars. By contrast, the Iraq war is costing upward of $400,000 per troop. Most Americans have yet to feel these costs. The price in blood has been paid by our voluntary military and by hired contractors. The price in treasure has, in a sense, been financed entirely by borrowing. Taxes have not been raised to pay for it—in fact, taxes on the rich have actually fallen. Deficit spending gives the illusion that the laws of economics can be repealed, that we can have both guns and butter. But of course the laws are not repealed. Times Online |
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David Walker Discusses the Education of the Negro, 1830 Subconscious connection between blacks, apes may reinforce subtle bias -- Penn State Faculty/Staff (ALL) Newswire - 03.06.08 |
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Missing People in New Orleans—Its figures paint a dramatic picture of jobs and housing decline in the central city area. During the storm's aftermath, thousands of residents were evacuated from the city. Two years later, one in three households have still not returned, and the population has dropped from 455,000 to 274,000. Poor households with children are particularly likely to have stayed away, with the number of children in public schools at only 40% of its pre-Katrina level. To some extent, migrants from Mexico and Central America have replaced Afro-Americans in New Orleans, with an estimated additional 100,000 Hispanic people in the region. They have been attracted by some of the relatively well-paying jobs in construction and tourism. Looking for jobs—But overall, the News Orleasn metro area employs 113,000 fewer people than in August 2005, and the pace of job creation has slowed to a crawl. The biggest declines were in tourism jobs (down 24,500), government jobs (down 29,000) and healthcare jobs (down 23,000). And 4,000 smaller firms closed after the storm. "We apparently are at a place where the post-storm employment recovery is peaking," said demographer Elliot Stonecipher. "Those categorical drops in jobs paint a picture of a devastated economy and we have to stop acting like they didn't happen." Steve Schifferes. Two years on, New Orleans stalls News BBC |
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Is Obama Backing Off a Crucial Pledge to Labor?—While running for office, Obama said he strongly backed the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), a long overdue labor law reform measure that should be part of his promised economic stimulus plan. . . . Just as the NLRA did, as a centerpiece of the New Deal, EFCA would encourage collective bargaining to raise workers’ living standards and restore greater balance to labor-management relations. Beginning in the late 1930s, this federal labor policy helped create a vast new post-World War II American middle-class. Now, facing the worst financial crisis since the Depression, the Democrats have an unparalleled opportunity to link labor law reform to their broader economic recovery efforts. CounterPunch |
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The Very Idea: Stem Cell Research by Ben Schwartz Do people have a moral responsibility to remember certain things? This is the question that lies at the heart of "The Ethics of Memory." : Policy review.org |
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Larry Ukali Johnson-Redd—— Listen to Conversations of Africa by following this link: http://www.conversationsofafrica.asmnetwork.net/ You are invited to listen to this and join in the conversation and make it a discussion by calling in and participating at 347-215-7831! Remember this segment will begin at 8 PM Pacific Standard Time! Conversations of Africa / Attending The Ninth National Black Writers Conference / Larry Uklai Johnson Redd Table |
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A Short History of “When the Levee Breaks”—On Saturday [30 August 2008], a million citizens fled Louisiana for safer ground, after Hurricane Gustav metamorphosed into a Category 4 hurricane in a mere 24 hours. It is scheduled to slam into the U.S. almost exactly three years after Hurricane Katrina did the same, visiting the kind of disaster dystopia one usually sees in film or music. . . . Louisiana authorities explain that there will be no shelter for those left behind or who choose to stay behind. It's a familiar refrain for those caught up in this recurring environmental nightmare, perhaps more familiar than you think. "When the Levee Breaks" was first created by the Delta bluesmen Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie. Listen to the original. Jordan Flaherty about New Orleans / New Orleans pre-Gustav |
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Wages Continue to Fall Rise of the Have-Nots—It's no great achievement for a people to recognize that their nation's economy has tanked, but recognizing that their nation's class structure has slowly but fundamentally altered is a more challenging task. It's harder still for a people who are conditioned, as Americans are, not to see their nation in terms of class. Which is why a poll released this month by the Pew Research Center reveals a transformation of Americans' sense of their country and themselves that is startling. Pew asked Americans if their country was divided between haves and have-nots. In 1988, when Gallup asked that question, 26 percent of respondents said yes, while 71 percent said no. In 2001, when Pew asked it, 44 percent said yes and 53 percent said no. But when Pew asked it again this summer, the number of Americans who agreed that we live in a nation divided into haves and have-nots had risen to 48 percent -- exactly the same as the number of Americans who disagreed. Americans' assessment of their own place in the economy has altered, too. In 1988, fully 59 percent identified themselves as haves and just 17 percent as have-nots. By 2001, the haves had dwindled to 52 percent and the have-nots had risen to 32 percent. This summer, just 45 percent of Americans called themselves haves, while 34 percent called themselves have-nots. Harold Meyerson (WP, 27September 2007
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Chocolat (1989) An African film on Love & Racism Starring: Isaach De Bankolé, Giulia Boschi / Director: Claire Denis |
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Marxist critical theory and analysis -- Raymond Williams, Marxism and Literature (Oxford University Press, 1977). / Fredric Jameson. Marxism and Form: Twentieth Century Dialectical Theories of Literature (Princeton University Press, 1971) / Eagleton, Terry. Marxism and Literary Criticism (Routledge, 1976) |
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Will Americans Ever Learn--I have this theory in life that there is no learning. There is no learning curve. Everything is tabula rasa. Everybody has to discover things for themselves. . . . Again, there's no learning curve. No learning curve at all. We'll be ready to fight another stupid war in another two decades.—Seymour Hersh, Interview Spiegel Online (28 September 2007) What Black Men Think (Film, 2007) Visit Our Store (Books, DVDs, Music, and more)
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The Black Arts Movement Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s By James Edward Smethurst |
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The Claude McKay--Romare Bearden The Du Bois-Malcolm-King What Black Men Think (Film, 2007) |
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James Terry—The Willie Harris Collection Chronicles Southern University and Life in Scotlandviille / My Archival Experience (Lewis) |
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What Is A Library By Ernest Cushing Richardson Notes on the Journal of Black Poetry Festival Marvin X, Chief Planner Tentative date for the Journal of Black Poetry Festival: late September, 2007. Purpose: Honor and respect to Brother Dingane (Jose Goncalves), publisher and editor of the JBP. |
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Lynching in America—Crucifixion and lynchings are symbols. They are symbols of the power of domination. They are symbols of the destruction of people's humanity. With black people being 12 percent of the US population and nearly 50 percent of the prison population, that's lynching. It's a legal lynching. So, there are a lot of ways to lynch a people than just hanging 'em on the tree. A lynching is trying to control the population. It is striking terror in the population so as to control it. That's what the ghetto does. It crams people into living spaces where they will self destruct, kill each other, fight each other, shoot each other because they have no place to breathe, no place for recreation, no place for an articulation and expression of their humanity. So, it becomes a way, a metaphor for lynching, if lynching is understood and as one group forcing a kind of inhumanity upon another group. James Cone Bill Moyers Interviews James Cone / Eric Dyson on Bill Cosby (video) |
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Black Prayer 1 Black Prayer 2 Black Prayer 3 A Prayer by Martin Luther King Baltimore Page Annual Founders Kwanzaa Message 1966—40th Anniversary—2006 Nguzo Saba: The Principles and Practice of Bringing Good into the World |
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West Indian Narrative: An Introductory Anthology-- 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 / Glenis Redmond: What We Carry Lifting Mama's Magic She Mango If I Ain't African |
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Koran Exordium: In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful. Praise be to Allah, the Lord of Creation. The Compassionate, the Merciful, King of the Last Judgment. You alone we worship. To You alone we pray. Guide us to the straight path, the path of those whom You have favored, not those who have incurred Your wrath, nor those who have gone astray. Luqman -- In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful / The Name of Allah Be Round About Us To 'Joy My Freedom / Washerwomen Sons and Daughters Vanishing Washerwoman Washerwomen in Brooklyn Washer-Woman Poem |
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As for what will happen to us next, I have no safe answers. If fair regulations are established and credibility is restored, people will stop walking around in a daze, roll up their sleeves and start picking up the pieces. Things unconnected with money will be valued more — friends, family, a walk in the woods. “I” will be spoken less, “we” will return, as people recognize that there is such a thing as the common good. On the other hand, if fair regulations are not established and rebuilding seems impossible, we could have social unrest on a scale we haven’t seen for years. |
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Voting is not enough—If voting was that effective, to quote the activist Philip Berrigan, it would be illegal. And voting in an age when elections are stolen by rigged ballot machines and a stacked Supreme Court willing to overturn all legal precedent to make George Bush president, will not work. I am not saying do not vote. We should all vote. But that has to be the starting point if we want to reclaim America. We must lobby, organize and advocate for the dissolution of the World Trade Organization and NAFTA. The WTO and NAFTA have handcuffed workers and consumers and stymied our efforts to create clean environments. These agreements are beyond the control of our courts and have crippled our weakened regulatory agencies. The WTO forces our working class to compete with brutalized child and prison labor overseas, to be reduced to this level of slave labor or to go without meaningful work. We need to repeal the anti-worker Taft-Hartley law of 1947. The act obstructs the organization of unions. We need to transfer control of pension funds from management to workers. If these pension funds, worth trillions of dollars, were in the hands of workers, the working class would own a third of the New York Stock Exchange. America's Democratic Collapse |
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