Lauren Steiner was live. July 18, 2021 (Facebook.com) #M4M4A (Video comes in at 23 seconds.) I speak with the main organizer, Shareef Snuggs, and three local organizers of the 51 Medicare for All Marches planned around the country for July 24, Betty Faye Doumas, Joy Bunton and Laura Fielding, organizing marches in LA, Chicago and Seattle… Continue reading
Nina Turner introduces Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders at a rally in Center City, Philadelphia on July 15, 2019. Photo: Jana Shea/OOgImages via Alamy Stock Photo Samson Energy’s chair has donated $1.25 million to the Democratic Majority for Israel super PAC, which endorsed Turner’s opponent Shontel Brown. Matthew Cunningham-CookJuly 16… Continue reading
San Francisco plans for a municipal finance corporation and public bank: Supervisors approve, Mayor signs off July 17, 2021 (info@publicbankinginstitute.org) In a major victory for public banking advocates, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on June 15th to establish the San Francisco Reinvestment Working Group tasked with developing business and governance plans for… Continue reading
WED, 7/14/2021 – BY CARL GIBSON (Occupy.com) Una versión Español de este artículo aparece debajo de la versión original. (A Spanish language version of this article appears below the original version.) Traducción Español de Lola Ellis. (Spanish translation by Lola Ellis.) For several days, thousands of Cubans have been marching in the… Continue reading
Matt Orfalea On March 16, 1968 American troops murdered over 500 innocent women, old men, and children in the Vietnamese village of My Lai. But it could have been much worse if not for one very brave helicopter pilot: Hugh Thompson Jr. After two failed attempts to end the slaughter peacefully,… Continue reading
My team has added up the final totals from our FEC fundraising deadline, and I need to say THANK YOU because this grassroots team stepped up in a BIG way. Let’s get right to the numbers: $2.27 million raised since April 1st. More than 150,000 donations. Average donation of…you guessed… Continue reading
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jan Palach Palach’s student ID photo Born 11 August 1948Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic) Died 19 January 1969 (aged 20)Prague, Czechoslovakia Cause of death Burns from self-immolation Resting place Olšany Cemetery Nationality Czech Alma mater Charles University Occupation student Known for self-immolation after the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia Awards Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (in memoriam) Jan Palach (11 August… Continue reading
“Hope does not mean that our protests will suddenly awaken the dead consciences, the atrophied souls, of the plutocrats running Halliburton, Goldman Sachs, Exxon Mobil or the government. Hope does not mean we will reform Wall Street swindlers and speculators. Hope does not mean that the nation’s ministers and rabbis,… Continue reading
