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3232Racist Redistricting Response: Historic Voter Turnout November 3
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/racist-redistricting-response-historic-voter-turnout-november-3/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/racist-redistricting-response-historic-voter-turnout-november-3/#respondThu, 14 May 2026 15:54:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1298186The election redistricting decisions made last week by the Virginia Supreme Court, by a 4-3 margin, and the US Supreme Court, by a 6-3 margin, have outraged, depressed and/or confused millions of US American voters, while temporarily, at least, energizing racists and Trump supporters. But there’s been no substantive change in the polling numbers for [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/racist-redistricting-response-historic-voter-turnout-november-3/feed/0Revolutionary Social Change That Lasts
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/revolutionary-social-change-that-lasts/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/revolutionary-social-change-that-lasts/#respondSat, 09 May 2026 18:32:26 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1297915“It is not enough to be against Donald Trump and MAGA, or against the control of both major parties in the USA by destructive corporate power, or even to be committed to hard work for the next eight and a half [now 6] months here in the USA to defeat the billionaire-supporting, would-be dictator Donald [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/revolutionary-social-change-that-lasts/feed/0As May Day Approaches, What About the Working Class?—or, 21st Century Common Sense, Part 9 (of 10)
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/as-may-day-approaches-what-about-the-working-class-or-21st-century-common-sense-part-9-of-10/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/as-may-day-approaches-what-about-the-working-class-or-21st-century-common-sense-part-9-of-10/#commentsSat, 25 Apr 2026 15:58:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1297324For many socialists and revolutionaries for a long time, the “working class” has been seen as THE revolutionary group. Karl Marx in the 1840s was among the first to identify the working class as a key sector, particularly the industrial working class which was growing in numbers in the mid-1800s as the industrial revolution advanced [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/as-may-day-approaches-what-about-the-working-class-or-21st-century-common-sense-part-9-of-10/feed/1Anti-Racism Among the People–or, 21st Century Common Sense, Part 7
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/anti-racism-among-the-people-or-21st-century-common-sense-part-7/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/anti-racism-among-the-people-or-21st-century-common-sense-part-7/#respondThu, 09 Apr 2026 15:55:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1296685“It is not enough to be anti-racist on a personal level or even, if you are a white person, to be in active solidarity with the struggles of people of color. Also essential, particularly in this critical election year, is conscious work among other white people who have been so infected with the ideas of [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/anti-racism-among-the-people-or-21st-century-common-sense-part-7/feed/0Nonviolent Lives. Nonviolent Tactics?—or, 21st Century Common Sense, Part 6
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/nonviolent-lives-nonviolent-tactics-or-21st-century-common-sense-part-6/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/nonviolent-lives-nonviolent-tactics-or-21st-century-common-sense-part-6/#commentsThu, 02 Apr 2026 15:57:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1296441I’m pretty certain, based on experiences and study, that a very big majority of US Americans who understand the need for progressive, substantive, systemic change—tens of millions of us—believe that we should try to live “nonviolent lives” as much as possible. We should do so when it comes to actions that we organize and the [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/nonviolent-lives-nonviolent-tactics-or-21st-century-common-sense-part-6/feed/1Millions in the Streets Nationally Make History
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/millions-in-the-streets-nationally-make-history/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/millions-in-the-streets-nationally-make-history/#respondFri, 27 Mar 2026 15:25:56 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1296195I’ve been surprised the past week to hear some people, not many but some, telling me that they or people they know aren’t planning to attend a No Kings action this Saturday. These are people who have progressive or liberal or radical ideas, who oppose what is happening under the Trump regime and who are [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/millions-in-the-streets-nationally-make-history/feed/0A Third Force, or, 21st Century Common Sense Part 5
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-third-force-or-21st-century-common-sense-part-5/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-third-force-or-21st-century-common-sense-part-5/#respondWed, 11 Mar 2026 17:57:50 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295658In Part One of this planned series of articles, I wrote about the historical timeliness of a ‘third force’ strategy. I said, “This isn’t something pulled out of the air, or someone’s lofty dreams. It is grounded in historical experience in the United States over the last 60 or so years.” A progressive “third force,” [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-third-force-or-21st-century-common-sense-part-5/feed/0Trying to Dig Deeper, or 21st Century Common Sense, Part 4
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trying-to-dig-deeper-or-21st-century-common-sense-part-4/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trying-to-dig-deeper-or-21st-century-common-sense-part-4/#respondThu, 05 Mar 2026 16:56:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295469“A huge problem, up there at the top of the list, is that the history of efforts over the last many centuries to create truly just and democratic societies, run by organized people, not oligarchs, has at best yielded mixed results since the Russian Revolution of 1917.” These words were part of the first column [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trying-to-dig-deeper-or-21st-century-common-sense-part-4/feed/021st Century Common Sense, Part 3
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/21st-century-common-sense-part-3/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/21st-century-common-sense-part-3/#respondSat, 28 Feb 2026 16:20:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295290It was the summer of 2003. I was employed at the time as the national coordinator of the Independent Progressive Politics Network, working towards, we hoped, a progressive, broad-based alternative to the Dems and Reps. But something happened that summer in Europe which changed my life, leading me to leave that IPPN job a year [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/21st-century-common-sense-part-3/feed/021st Century Common Sense, Part Two
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/21st-century-common-sense/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/21st-century-common-sense/#commentsMon, 23 Feb 2026 20:32:37 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295074Rebellions against injustice and poverty go back centuries, millenia, throughout the world. People “on the bottom” of human societies, sooner or later, get themselves organized to put up a fight. Because of this historical reality, when it is combined with changes in consciousness and/or guilt among some middle- and even upper-class people, and despite our [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/21st-century-common-sense/feed/221st Century Common Sense, Part One
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/21st-century-common-sense-part-one/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/21st-century-common-sense-part-one/#commentsTue, 17 Feb 2026 17:15:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294852A quarter of the way through this century, there is no doubt that the USA and the world are in deep trouble. This is true for everyone, even the families of those most responsible for this state of affairs, the “Epstein class” and those supporting them. Given the fact that the burning of fossils fuels [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/21st-century-common-sense-part-one/feed/1Casualties in the Fight for Democracy
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/casualties-in-the-fight-for-democracy/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/casualties-in-the-fight-for-democracy/#respondWed, 28 Jan 2026 20:35:03 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294094“Ultimately, what I have learned is that government repression can have a disruptive impact on our work, but we can turn a negative into a positive. The extent to which we can creatively, intelligently and fearlessly demonstrate the truth of what we are about when responding to what they are doing to us is the [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/casualties-in-the-fight-for-democracy/feed/0Hungering for Solar, and More
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/hungering-for-solar-and-more/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/hungering-for-solar-and-more/#respondMon, 19 Jan 2026 18:24:49 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293659“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1963, Letter from a Birmingham Jail From January 5-7 I must have seen these words of Dr. King flash many hundreds of times. That happened because over those three days, from 7 am to 5 pm, I engaged in a 72-hour, water-only hunger [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/hungering-for-solar-and-more/feed/0The Significance of Last Weekend’s 1200 Local Actions
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-significance-of-last-weekends-1200-local-actions/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-significance-of-last-weekends-1200-local-actions/#respondWed, 14 Jan 2026 16:53:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293477The new year began on a very foreboding note. First was the Trump regime’s invasion of Venezuela to kidnap its President with the explicit purpose being to get control of its oil. Then, a few days later, came the killing of 37-year-old, mother of three Renee Nicole Good by ICE in Minneapolis, followed by Trump [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-significance-of-last-weekends-1200-local-actions/feed/0July 4th and November 3rd
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/july-4th-and-november-3rd/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/july-4th-and-november-3rd/#respondFri, 02 Jan 2026 17:00:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293022It’s good to enter the new year with MAGA divided, Trump down in the polls and forced to pull the National Guard out of Portland, Los Angeles and Chicago, a huge win for the resistance in those cities, the Epstein issue still very much out there, and more. This is a very different New Year’s [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/july-4th-and-november-3rd/feed/0Two Flags Flying
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https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/two-flags-flying/#respondMon, 15 Dec 2025 18:31:50 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292383For the last month or so there have been two small flags flying prominently outside the front door of my and my wife’s house. One is an American flag, the other the Palestinian flag. In the 46 years that Jane and I have been married we’ve never done anything like this. We’ve had issue-oriented signs [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/two-flags-flying/feed/0Conditions are Ripe for a Resistance Counter-Offensive
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/conditions-are-ripe-for-a-resistance-counter-offensive/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/conditions-are-ripe-for-a-resistance-counter-offensive/#respondWed, 03 Dec 2025 19:10:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291901It’s been over ten long months that the forces of democracy have been on the defensive, doing our best to withstand the many and various assaults on us on issue after issue, but the tide is turning: Remember that it was Joe McCarthy in the 1950’s attacking the US military that was the beginning of [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/conditions-are-ripe-for-a-resistance-counter-offensive/feed/0Energy Affordability+, Not Energy Dominance
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/energy-affordability-not-energy-dominance/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/energy-affordability-not-energy-dominance/#respondMon, 24 Nov 2025 18:10:20 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291625Two of the most significant dates in my life as a progressive activist and organizer are April 4, 1968 and August of 2003. The 1968 date is the day Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed. His killing pushed me to finally do something about racial injustice and the Vietnam War rather than just reading and [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/energy-affordability-not-energy-dominance/feed/0The Supreme Court Is Not Above the Law Either
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-supreme-court-is-not-above-the-law-either/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-supreme-court-is-not-above-the-law-either/#respondFri, 24 Oct 2025 15:52:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1290384“I think we can do a lot, if a critical mass of organizations steps forward and develops a plan to go public and visible calling out the undemocratic and dangerous reality of what the Supreme Court majority is doing, particularly these shadowy, opaque, undemocratic ‘emergency’ decisions. Just like we have had and will be having, [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-supreme-court-is-not-above-the-law-either/feed/0October 18, November 4: World Changing?
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/october-18-november-4-world-changing/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/october-18-november-4-world-changing/#respondTue, 14 Oct 2025 16:00:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1289944Many millions on the streets this Saturday all over the country loudly proclaiming: No Kings! Yes to Democracy!–followed on November 4th by victories for Mamdani in NYC, Sherrill in NJ, Spanberger in Virginia, redistricting in California, and more–could this be truly “world changing?” On one level, no. This is not a Presidential election year or a [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/october-18-november-4-world-changing/feed/0Jane Goodall: “Fight to the Very End”
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/jane-goodall-fight-to-the-very-end/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/jane-goodall-fight-to-the-very-end/#respondWed, 08 Oct 2025 18:16:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1289652“I have no doubt that we have the tools to make the change, but do we have the will to make the change? It seems with some of the top politicians and corrupt corporations there’s no such will. We need to reach people’s hearts. If millions, billions of people do little things it makes big [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/jane-goodall-fight-to-the-very-end/feed/0Repression and Militarism: Great Distractions for a Weakening Regime
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/repression-and-militarism-great-distractions-for-a-weakening-regime/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/repression-and-militarism-great-distractions-for-a-weakening-regime/#respondWed, 01 Oct 2025 18:10:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1289348The speeches by Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump today to 800 or so top US military leaders around the world, combined with the farcical indictment of former FBI Director James Comey and the promise of more of them, have accomplished one thing so far: pushing the Trump/Epstein relationship far down in the news. Is there [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/repression-and-militarism-great-distractions-for-a-weakening-regime/feed/0Supremely Courting Authoritarian Rule
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/supremely-courting-authoritarian-rule/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/supremely-courting-authoritarian-rule/#respondWed, 24 Sep 2025 18:23:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1288981“Perhaps the degradation of our rule-of-law regime would happen anyway,” Jackson wrote. “But this Court’s complicity in the creation of a culture of disdain for lower courts, their rulings, and the law (as they interpret it) will surely hasten the downfall of our governing institutions, enabling our collective demise.” – Supreme Court Justice Katanji Jackson, [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/supremely-courting-authoritarian-rule/feed/0Trump Down, and There Is Hope At the Grassroots
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trump-down-and-there-is-hope-at-the-grassroots/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trump-down-and-there-is-hope-at-the-grassroots/#respondTue, 09 Sep 2025 16:09:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1288313How is Trump doing in the polls? Over the last week and a half, averaging polls done by CBS, NBC, The Economist, Reuters/Ipsos and Quinnipiac, he is doing terribly: an average approval rating of 41.6% and a disapproval rating of 55.4%. He is down 14 points. As significant, however, are the results from the Quinnipiac poll as [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trump-down-and-there-is-hope-at-the-grassroots/feed/0Thomas Paine, Working-Class Hero
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/thomas-paine-working-class-hero/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/thomas-paine-working-class-hero/#respondWed, 27 Aug 2025 19:36:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287809“In ‘Common Sense,’ Thomas Paine defines common sense as the fundamental ability of all people to reason and discern truth, regardless of social standing or education. He argues that this innate capacity, when applied to political matters, reveals the absurdity of hereditary monarchy and the necessity of self-governance based on the consent of the governed. Paine’s ‘Common [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/thomas-paine-working-class-hero/feed/0Self-Determination for Eastern Ukraine?
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/self-determination-for-eastern-ukraine/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/self-determination-for-eastern-ukraine/#commentsThu, 21 Aug 2025 15:51:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287579Completely absent in any of the governmental efforts for the last three and a half years to end the war on Ukraine is the issue of self-determination as it relates concretely to where the on-the-ground war and the huge percentage of casualties are primarily happening. The principle of nations having the right to make decisions [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/self-determination-for-eastern-ukraine/feed/1Rise Up for Our Planet September 18-21
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/rise-up-for-our-planet-september-18-21/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/rise-up-for-our-planet-september-18-21/#respondThu, 14 Aug 2025 15:48:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287321It is crystal clear that millions of US Americans are prepared to organize and take action to fight the efforts of the Trump regime to impose a form of 21st Century fascism on the USA. From the first youth-led, #50501 actions in all 50 states on February 5th to the more than five million people who came [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/rise-up-for-our-planet-september-18-21/feed/0The Trump Death Cult, Part 2
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-trump-death-cult-part-2/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-trump-death-cult-part-2/#respondWed, 06 Aug 2025 18:28:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287014Six weeks ago I wrote a column entitled, Fighting Climate Meltdown and the Death Cult. In it I said, “This would-be fascist government wants to roll back hundreds of billions of dollars approved in 2022 for wind and solar energy, electric cars, buses and trains and other clean and jobs-producing energy. This is the kind [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-trump-death-cult-part-2/feed/0Nixon and Watergate, Trump and the Epstein Crisis
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/nixon-and-watergate-trump-and-the-epstein-crisis/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/nixon-and-watergate-trump-and-the-epstein-crisis/#respondTue, 29 Jul 2025 16:00:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1286707On November 6 last year, the day after the big election, I wrote about the “so-serious situation we are now faced with in not just the USA but the world because of the MAGA victory. I remember a very similar feeling after the November, 1972 runaway Presidential victory of Trump-similar Richard Nixon over George McGovern. But [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/nixon-and-watergate-trump-and-the-epstein-crisis/feed/0Progressive Comradeship During the Trump Times
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/progressive-comradeship-during-the-trump-times/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/progressive-comradeship-during-the-trump-times/#respondMon, 07 Jul 2025 16:02:39 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1285899I’ve noticed over the last couple of years younger progressive/revolutionary organizers using the word, “comrade,” to refer to other organizers. Is this a good idea? During the days of McCarthyism in the 1950’s, and probably before then, self-righteous conservatives used this word as a smear against people on the political Left. “Comrade” was a word [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/progressive-comradeship-during-the-trump-times/feed/0
The election redistricting decisions made last week by the Virginia Supreme Court, by a 4-3 margin, and the US Supreme Court, by a 6-3 margin, have outraged, depressed and/or confused millions of US American voters, while temporarily, at least, energizing racists and Trump supporters. But there’s been no substantive change in the polling numbers for [...]]]>
“It is not enough to be against Donald Trump and MAGA, or against the control of both major parties in the USA by destructive corporate power, or even to be committed to hard work for the next eight and a half [now 6] months here in the USA to defeat the billionaire-supporting, would-be dictator Donald [...]]]>
For many socialists and revolutionaries for a long time, the “working class” has been seen as THE revolutionary group. Karl Marx in the 1840s was among the first to identify the working class as a key sector, particularly the industrial working class which was growing in numbers in the mid-1800s as the industrial revolution advanced [...]]]>
I’m pretty certain, based on experiences and study, that a very big majority of US Americans who understand the need for progressive, substantive, systemic change—tens of millions of us—believe that we should try to live “nonviolent lives” as much as possible. We should do so when it comes to actions that we organize and the [...]]]>
I’ve been surprised the past week to hear some people, not many but some, telling me that they or people they know aren’t planning to attend a No Kings action this Saturday. These are people who have progressive or liberal or radical ideas, who oppose what is happening under the Trump regime and who are [...]]]>
In Part One of this planned series of articles, I wrote about the historical timeliness of a ‘third force’ strategy. I said, “This isn’t something pulled out of the air, or someone’s lofty dreams. It is grounded in historical experience in the United States over the last 60 or so years.” A progressive “third force,” [...]]]>
“A huge problem, up there at the top of the list, is that the history of efforts over the last many centuries to create truly just and democratic societies, run by organized people, not oligarchs, has at best yielded mixed results since the Russian Revolution of 1917.” These words were part of the first column [...]]]>
It was the summer of 2003. I was employed at the time as the national coordinator of the Independent Progressive Politics Network, working towards, we hoped, a progressive, broad-based alternative to the Dems and Reps. But something happened that summer in Europe which changed my life, leading me to leave that IPPN job a year [...]]]>
Rebellions against injustice and poverty go back centuries, millenia, throughout the world. People “on the bottom” of human societies, sooner or later, get themselves organized to put up a fight. Because of this historical reality, when it is combined with changes in consciousness and/or guilt among some middle- and even upper-class people, and despite our [...]]]>
A quarter of the way through this century, there is no doubt that the USA and the world are in deep trouble. This is true for everyone, even the families of those most responsible for this state of affairs, the “Epstein class” and those supporting them. Given the fact that the burning of fossils fuels [...]]]>
“Ultimately, what I have learned is that government repression can have a disruptive impact on our work, but we can turn a negative into a positive. The extent to which we can creatively, intelligently and fearlessly demonstrate the truth of what we are about when responding to what they are doing to us is the [...]]]>
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1963, Letter from a Birmingham Jail From January 5-7 I must have seen these words of Dr. King flash many hundreds of times. That happened because over those three days, from 7 am to 5 pm, I engaged in a 72-hour, water-only hunger [...]]]>
The new year began on a very foreboding note. First was the Trump regime’s invasion of Venezuela to kidnap its President with the explicit purpose being to get control of its oil. Then, a few days later, came the killing of 37-year-old, mother of three Renee Nicole Good by ICE in Minneapolis, followed by Trump [...]]]>
It’s good to enter the new year with MAGA divided, Trump down in the polls and forced to pull the National Guard out of Portland, Los Angeles and Chicago, a huge win for the resistance in those cities, the Epstein issue still very much out there, and more. This is a very different New Year’s [...]]]>
For the last month or so there have been two small flags flying prominently outside the front door of my and my wife’s house. One is an American flag, the other the Palestinian flag. In the 46 years that Jane and I have been married we’ve never done anything like this. We’ve had issue-oriented signs [...]]]>
It’s been over ten long months that the forces of democracy have been on the defensive, doing our best to withstand the many and various assaults on us on issue after issue, but the tide is turning: Remember that it was Joe McCarthy in the 1950’s attacking the US military that was the beginning of [...]]]>
Two of the most significant dates in my life as a progressive activist and organizer are April 4, 1968 and August of 2003. The 1968 date is the day Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed. His killing pushed me to finally do something about racial injustice and the Vietnam War rather than just reading and [...]]]>
“I think we can do a lot, if a critical mass of organizations steps forward and develops a plan to go public and visible calling out the undemocratic and dangerous reality of what the Supreme Court majority is doing, particularly these shadowy, opaque, undemocratic ‘emergency’ decisions. Just like we have had and will be having, [...]]]>
Many millions on the streets this Saturday all over the country loudly proclaiming: No Kings! Yes to Democracy!–followed on November 4th by victories for Mamdani in NYC, Sherrill in NJ, Spanberger in Virginia, redistricting in California, and more–could this be truly “world changing?” On one level, no. This is not a Presidential election year or a [...]]]>
“I have no doubt that we have the tools to make the change, but do we have the will to make the change? It seems with some of the top politicians and corrupt corporations there’s no such will. We need to reach people’s hearts. If millions, billions of people do little things it makes big [...]]]>
The speeches by Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump today to 800 or so top US military leaders around the world, combined with the farcical indictment of former FBI Director James Comey and the promise of more of them, have accomplished one thing so far: pushing the Trump/Epstein relationship far down in the news. Is there [...]]]>
How is Trump doing in the polls? Over the last week and a half, averaging polls done by CBS, NBC, The Economist, Reuters/Ipsos and Quinnipiac, he is doing terribly: an average approval rating of 41.6% and a disapproval rating of 55.4%. He is down 14 points. As significant, however, are the results from the Quinnipiac poll as [...]]]>
“In ‘Common Sense,’ Thomas Paine defines common sense as the fundamental ability of all people to reason and discern truth, regardless of social standing or education. He argues that this innate capacity, when applied to political matters, reveals the absurdity of hereditary monarchy and the necessity of self-governance based on the consent of the governed. Paine’s ‘Common [...]]]>
Completely absent in any of the governmental efforts for the last three and a half years to end the war on Ukraine is the issue of self-determination as it relates concretely to where the on-the-ground war and the huge percentage of casualties are primarily happening. The principle of nations having the right to make decisions [...]]]>
It is crystal clear that millions of US Americans are prepared to organize and take action to fight the efforts of the Trump regime to impose a form of 21st Century fascism on the USA. From the first youth-led, #50501 actions in all 50 states on February 5th to the more than five million people who came [...]]]>
Six weeks ago I wrote a column entitled, Fighting Climate Meltdown and the Death Cult. In it I said, “This would-be fascist government wants to roll back hundreds of billions of dollars approved in 2022 for wind and solar energy, electric cars, buses and trains and other clean and jobs-producing energy. This is the kind [...]]]>
On November 6 last year, the day after the big election, I wrote about the “so-serious situation we are now faced with in not just the USA but the world because of the MAGA victory. I remember a very similar feeling after the November, 1972 runaway Presidential victory of Trump-similar Richard Nixon over George McGovern. But [...]]]>
I’ve noticed over the last couple of years younger progressive/revolutionary organizers using the word, “comrade,” to refer to other organizers. Is this a good idea? During the days of McCarthyism in the 1950’s, and probably before then, self-righteous conservatives used this word as a smear against people on the political Left. “Comrade” was a word [...]]]>