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Open Letter to President Obama to end the Iraq and Afghan wars and U.S military deployment in Central and South America and the Caribbean

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August 10, 2010

Open Letter to President Obama to end the Iraq and Afghan wars and U.S military deployment in Central and South America and the Caribbean

Dear President Obama:

There is a growing outcry from the public, members of Congress and the mainstream media demanding "U.S. out of Iraq and Afghanistan." From the very beginning, the Freedom Socialist Party and Radical Women have called for the immediate end to both of these senseless and illegal wars. You need to make this happen--now.

The fires of racism: Black churches burn while government investigates congregations
Linda Averill
volume 17
issue 3
October 1996
THE NIGHT RIDERS are back. More than three decades after the 1963 bombing of a Birmingham church killed four girls getting ready for choir practice, violence against Black churches is again sweeping the South -- and making inroads up North.

Dateline Canada
Cuba trade sí, Yankee bullying no!
Marcel Hatch
volume 17
issue 3
October 1996
AS AN OFTEN frustrated press coordinator for Canadian aid shipments to Havana, I gained great satisfaction watching the Olympics compete with Cuba for media attention.

The Gulf crisis: beautiful planet versus deadly profit system

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June 2010

The only solution is revolution

The Gulf crisis: beautiful planet versus deadly profit system

“It’s like a nightmare you can’t wake up from.” This is how Danielle Brutsche described the plight of Gulf of Mexico residents at a May 30 rally in New Orleans demanding that the government take control of managing BP’s disaster.

La despiadada guerra global contra las mujeres
Linda Averill
volume 17
issue 4
enero de 1997
EN LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, el número de hogares con padres solteros que reciben asistencia pública o welfare se ha triplicado a partir de los años 60 y son en su mayoría hogares de mujeres solteras. El Congreso con mucha razón denomina esta situación una crisis nacional. Sin embargo el problema, según los patriarcas legislativos, no es la economía que no proporciona a las mujeres guarderías ni salarios suficientes; el problema son los nacimientos "ilegítimos" y las familias sin padre. Su solución es la siguiente: negar la asistencia pública a estas familias despreciadas.

The ruthless global war against women
Linda Averill
volume 17
issue 4
January 1997
IN THE U.S., the number of single-parent households on welfare has tripled since the 1960s, with most of them headed by women. Congress rightly calls this a national crisis. But the problem, say these legislative patriarchs, isn't an economy that deprives women of childcare and a living wage. It's out-of-wedlock births and fatherless families. Their solution: deny public aid to these unvalued families.

Voices of Color
You Were Born
Nellie Wong
volume 17
issue 4
January 1997

You were born, sweet child,
from sweat and tears
from blood that flowed
through our veins

You came out of disability
out of skin and teeth
and bones and rage
at inequities
of race, gender, class

You walked out into the sun
with the ferociousness
of a tiger
You teethed in Selma, Little Rock,
in the Third World Strikes
out of free speech
and Blacks who refused
to sit any longer
at the back of the bus

You came in different sizes and shapes,
heights, skin tones
You were hanged, gunned down,
chased out of town, murdered,
sold, put on the auction block

Sandy Nelson
What the Nelson case needs now: money!
Angela Stark
volume 17
issue 4
January 1997
SANDY NELSON'S CASE against her employer, The News Tribune of Tacoma, Washington, has finally caught the elusive eye of the mainstream media. Now, her defense committee is raising funds to fill a pocketbook that can capitalize on the newfound attention.

Sandy Nelson: Live from the media monopoly
volume 17
issue 4
January 1997
Journalist Sandy Nelson, who was removed from her reporting beat because of her political activism, is no stranger to the power of the big-business press to squelch democracy.

Up for sale: prisons and prisoners
Janet Sutherland
volume 17
issue 4
January 1997
GOVERNMENT and big business, ever alert to ways to scam the public, cut costs, and fatten profits, are revisiting an old source of cheap labor: the ever-increasing prison population.

Union activism in the late 1800s and early 1900s forced restrictions on the use of prison slave labor in the U.S. But state and federal inmate numbers are exploding, nearly tripling from 1980 to 1993. This growth is an irresistible incentive to corporations eager to boost income and a powerful spur to officials promising to slash expenses.

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