U.S. articles from the Freedom Socialist
June 2010
With trillions of tax dollars going to corporate bailouts, millions of people losing homes and housing, and sky-high unemployment, there’s good reason to be angry. Recent polls report that most people think the U.S. is moving in the wrong direction...
June 2010
A small band of swastika-bedecked Nazis announced they would rally on April 17 in downtown Los Angeles to celebrate Hitler’s birthday. Their party was a bust, however, when they were greeted by a rainbow of over 2,000 taunting and chanting...
June 2010
In 2008, when gas prices spiked, so did transit ridership, reaching 10.7 billion trips nationally. Hard times make this service even more essential to millions of people. So the U.S. government is expanding public transportation, right?
Wrong....
June 2010
It’s not just a pipe dream anymore. The movement to reform marijuana laws has gone global, and the chance to rewrite draconian drug policies has never been better. From Latin America to Europe, and 14 states that have legalized marijuana for medical...
June 2010
Arizona passed its discriminatory immigration law SB 1070 in April, and 20 days later banned ethnic studies in schools. Since then all hell has broken loose. Senate Bill 1070 requires police to determine the immigration status of anyone they “...
June 2010
Since Barack Obama was elected president, corporate media have declared that the color line is no longer relevant. Not so fast! said three activists of color speaking at a Black History Month forum in Harlem. They resoundingly agreed that the...
June 2010
Feel the buzz? The new generation of lesbian-gay-bi-trans- organizers is bolder and brassier than ever. These refreshingly grassroots activists are bustin’ out amid a profound shift in popular attitudes toward sexuality and gender roles. Gay proms...
June 2010
On April 17, public pressure forced the U.S. to let Spc. Marc Hall out of the Army. Hall had been jailed for writing a hip-hop song critical of the stop-loss policy, which forces soldiers to stay in longer than they signed up for. The Army claimed...
April 2010
Back in 2006, I was invited to the Freedom Socialist Party (FSP) national convention in Portland, Ore. Since the last and only similar event I’d been to was the 2003 Democratic Party of Oregon (DPO) convention, I was apprehensive to say the least....
April 2010
“Americans with and without health insurance lose their homes and their lives because they cannot afford medical care,” fumes Dr. Samuel Metz, of Mad as Hell Doctors. “It’s time to put the medical health of 300 million Americans ahead of the...
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