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Meanwhile, What About South Africa? Was It All For This?

  Many of our brothers and sisters who struggled, fought, died, for the liberation of South Africa are long gone to their rest.  I bow to them, with tears of gratitude. This teaching by the remarkable Shahid Bolsen breaks the heart with information of the continued suffering and subjugation of South Africa’s people. The majority poor, still.  Uneducated, still. Health care a dream, still. ~aw

Black Men: The Beauty – and humor – of Your Awakening Amid the Terror of Our Global Situation

We have never had a party that stood -beyond convenience – for us. The two dominant ones certainly don’t. Is it possible to seek an alternative?  Yes! Find Dr. Stein and Dr. Ware!   Imagine: we could be talking about stuff that really matters.  Like genocide.  Or how about this: the possibility of nuclear annihilation.  Not even discussed on the campaign trail. aw

Leonard Peltier, self- portrait, master artist, in the month (September) of his birth

Leonard Peltier, a member of AIM, the American Indian Movement, has been in prison since 1976, for a crime he may not have committed. In prison he has worked diligently at his art, becoming a master painter. In this self-portrait we see the resolve of a soul committed to evolving into the self that bars  will never contain. An elder now, at 82 years old, we salute the force of character he is showing us. That even in prison – serving two consecutive life terms and denied parole by presidents Cli...

Guess What? Some of Us Would Like To Live. Campaigning Against Genocide. Jill Stein and Butch Ware, teaching…

Guess What? Some of Us Would Like To Live. Jill Stein Teaches…

Haitians

James Baldwin In Istanbul: He believed the loss of empire meant a revolution of the soul.

JAMES BALDWIN’S ISTANBUL BY SUZY HANSEN This is the latest installment of Public Streets, an urban observation series created by Ellis Avery and curated by Abigail Struhl. “Baby, I’m broke, I’m sick. I need your help,” James Baldwin said to a friend when he landed in Europe, looking for a place to rest. This time, his European city of choice wasn’t Paris. It was Istanbul. Many people might be surprised to learn that James Baldwin lived on and off in Turkey throughout the 1960s, the most dynamic ...

Article 6: Finding a way

Article 6: Finding a way Our sense of helplessness- as we watch Palestinians, a beautiful people, destroyed – is hardest to bear. They are one of many, countless, beautiful peoples wiped out by American savagery and greed. I grieve the cultures, civilizations, dreams, Western domination has erased. I realize I am missing them; the world is missing them. Countless millions of human beings dispatched in horrific ways, their cultures ravaged and expropriated, even their jewelry – after the bloody c...

Cornel West teaches…

The End of Empire? Chris Hedges teaches…