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I read with great interest Peter Beinart’s recent New York Times op-ed “To Save Israel, Boycott the Settlements.” His thesis is straightforward: Beinart…
Bill Fletcher Jr
Bill Fletcher Jr (born 1954) has been an activist since his teen years. Upon graduating from college he went to work as a welder in a shipyard, thereby entering the labor movement. Over the years he has been active in workplace and community struggles as well as electoral campaigns. He has worked for several labor unions in addition to serving as a senior staffperson in the national AFL-CIO. Fletcher is the former president of TransAfrica Forum; a Senior Scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies; and in the leadership of several other projects. Fletcher is the co-author (with Peter Agard) of “The Indispensable Ally: Black Workers and the Formation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1934-1941”; the co-author (with Dr. Fernando Gapasin) of “Solidarity Divided: The crisis in organized labor and a new path toward social justice“; and the author of “‘They’re Bankrupting Us’ – And Twenty other myths about unions.” Fletcher is a syndicated columnist and a regular media commentator on television, radio and the Web.
It is difficult to watch the spectacle of the Republican primaries and not agree with whoever it was that originated the description…
On February 26th, a ceremony is to take place in California apologizing to the approximately 400,000 people of Mexican ancestry who were…
In 2002, seemingly out of nowhere, then US Secretary of State Colin Powell announced that the USA henceforth considered the Communist Party…
In watching the USA/Israeli vs. Iranian tensions play out, I found myself thinking about the similarities with the British/Argentine war in the…
I recently returned from North Africa and Palestine. I found myself giving a talk to a group in the USA where I…
In the context of the criticisms that many of us have of the Obama administration for what it has not accomplished, for…
COINTELPRO 101, produced by Freedom Archives. Available to order through: https://co.clickandpledge.com/advanced/default.aspx?wid=33028 I read The Autobiography of Malcolm X when I was 13…
Rather than dwell on the question of whether we can bring Obama home, whether he ever was home, etc., I want to…
Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel, Editors, The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran’s Future, Brooklyn, New York: Melville…