Connecting the $15 an Hour Movement to the Movement for Racial Justice and other Social Movements! by Peter Bohmer At the Working…
Peter Bohmer
Peter Bohmer has been an activist in movements for radical social change since 1967, which have included anti-racist organizing and solidarity movements with the people of Vietnam, Southern Africa, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Palestine and Central America. For his activism and teaching, he was targeted by the FBI. He was a member of the faculty at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA from 1987 to 2021 where he taught political economy. He believes alternatives to capitalism are desirable and possible. Peter is the proud parent of a daughter and three sons.
Connecting issues and social movements and organizations to each other has the potential to build a powerful movement of movements that is stronger than any of its individual parts
The increasing consciousness of the huge inequality of income and wealth in the US is a legacy of Occupy Wall Street
What follows are my answers to a written interview with me from Kourosh Ziabari, a writer and reporter for the Fars News…
The Greek proposal is similar to what the European Union proposed last week and that Greek voters overwhelmingly voted no to last Sunday
At 1:15 AM on May 21, on the west side of Olympia, Washington, white police officer Ryan Donald shot two young unarmed Black brothers, Andre Thompson, 24, and Bryson Chaplin, 21.
Out of this tragedy, there is an opportunity to have serious conversations about racism, about Black lives matter and to build mass movements
Police Shooting in Olympia–updated June 4, 2015 Another Police Shootings of African-Americans! It Can Happen Anywhere in the United States Including Olympia,…
Changing the World by Building Power from Below, and also Taking and Dismantling State Power! (Left Forum, NYC, May 30, 2014)
Resistance and Alternatives to Capitalist Globalization talk given at International Symposium in Globalization and Democracy, Gwangju, South Korea, September 19, 2014
