Features from the Freedom Socialist
June 2013
In the melting pot ghetto of East Los Angeles where I grew up during the Great Depression, everybody seemed to know that the only way to keep things from getting worse was to organize to make them better.
Everyone was involved in some group bent on...
June 2013
FREE AILING LYNNE STEWART NOW!
Keep pressure on
The timing of your email is great. I am in Texas visiting Lynne and this news of the continued spreading of the news about her plight really lifted her spirits.
She was tired from the chemo but she...
June 2013
The movie Bless me, Ultima is based on a novel by Rudolfo Anaya published in 1972. Anaya is one of the founders of contemporary Chicano literature, and his book is on many school reading lists, especially for Chicano studies. It is the first novel...
April 2013
The Freedom Socialist Party (FSP) in Australia is 30 years old! Our first event, “A new era for socialist feminism in Australia,” took place at the Plumbers Union on 24 March 1983. I outlined the party’s history and program for a crowd of mostly...
April 2013
Volumes have been written about the life and music of John Lennon. The least appreciated aspect is that his desire to make the world a better place was deeply political, and in turbulent times much like today.
As Marx might have put it, through his...
April 2013
COAL EXPORTS
Solar the answer
About your article on the U.S. trying to export coal to Asia: may I suggest that the best way to shut down coal mines is for the workers in each city to petition for a feed-in tariff requiring Utilities to pay $.54 kwh...
April 2013
Please sign: Petition to Free Lynne Stewart
Radical attorney Lynne Stewart has many friends and fans. But the U.S. government is not one of them, and now it seems ready to turn the 73-year-old’s prison sentence into a death sentence, by denying her...
February 2013
January 2013 — Victory for port truckers. For two years port truck drivers in LA, a largely Latino workforce that became Teamsters last April, organize militant actions and community support to win better conditions. Their new contract is...
February 2013
UNFAIR TO LABOR
Boycott Whole Foods
Just to let you know that Organized Workers for Labor Solidarity (OWLS) in Seattle has declared a boycott against Whole Foods, the Wal-Mart of organic/natural foods.
Their main supplier, United Natural Food, Inc...
February 2013
Jan. 22, 2013, marks the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion in 1973. The court based its ruling on the idea that for government to outlaw abortion would violate a woman’s constitutional right to...