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In his last year in office, Obama should push Morocco to respect Saharawi self-determination
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.
Age discrimination is certainly nothing that social justice activists had to worry about in liberal and progressive sectors, right?
A resurgent and irrational Right always plays the race card
What does it mean when candidates simply make things up? How should Black America view Carson’s candidacy?
That the Saharawi refugees have been in camps for 40 years is not a natural occurrence
South Carolina’s disastrous flood calls into question both the ridiculousness of neo-liberal economics, but also the terribly scary side to it as well
Despite a desperate economic crisis, comparable to Greece’s, we only get an episodic look at what is crushing the nation of Puerto Rico
Movement activists discuss strategy and tactics in #BlackLivesMatter
Experiencing a common, though painful, occurrence raises some big questions about the scope of healthcare in the USA.
The existence of Planned Parenthood has been a victory for women. We do not simply need to defend it. We need to expand its work in service of women’s health from one end of this country to the other