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Is Labor Ready to Challenge Obama?
The October 2 Washington march for jobs, announced by the NAACP and SEIU Local 1199 and now endorsed by the entirety of organized labor, āis an important shiftā from laborās āfailed policyā of avoiding conflicts with the Obama White House, according to Alan Benjamin, of the Workers Emergency Recovery Campaign. The WERC urges unions to demand single-payer health care, creation of 15 million WPA-type jobs and an end to U.S. wars.
The Ongoing Crime Against Black New Orleans
Five years after Katrina, the quality of life is worse for working people in New Orleans. Lance Hill, executive director of the Southern Institute for Education and Research, Tulane University, reports that as many as 150,000 former residents have not been able to return. The āeliteāsā plan to shut out and keep out much of the Black population, has been largely successful.
The Internet is Not a Movement
The Netroots Nation and others still drunk on ObamaāLaid mistake the traffic on the Internet for a real political movement, says BAR columnist Dr. Jared Ball. āIt seems not to matter whether or not Obama is good for us, or that the Internet didnāt prevent Oscar Grantās murder from occurring or prevent his killer from being handed an unjust non-sentence.ā
Wyclef Jean Serves Foreignersā Schemes for Haiti
Haitian community activist Ray LaForest says Wyclef Jeanās presidential candidacy is part of the U.S.-France-Canada āgrand planā to transform Haiti into the ācheapest source of labor in the Americas.ā The entertainerās move has heightened interest in an election from which the nationās most popular political party, exiled President Jean Bertrand Aristideās Fanmi Lavalas, has been excluded.
ntimidating the Rich
Angered over a land grab by the giant Whirlpool Corporation, Benton Harbor, Michigan, activists led by Rev. Edward Pinkney spoiled the opening of a Jack Nicklaus signature golf course developed by the company. The demonstrators shouted āJack Nicklaus, go home!ā and caused Arnold Palmer, Tom Watson and rich patrons to seek a side exit. āWe intimidated them like they have never been intimidated,ā said Rev. Pinkney.
Black Agenda Radio on the Progressive Radio Network is hosted by Glen Ford and Nellie Bailey. A new edition of the program airs every Monday at 4:00pm ET on PRN. Length: One hour. Click here to download the show.
Joe Biden had a moment of truth when he promised the oligarchs that nothing would fundamentally change if he became president. He kept his promise, and so will all those who come after him unlessā¦
The Black Alliance for Peace released a statement in solidarity with the people of Gaza and all Palestinians under occupation in the racist, apartheid settler state of Israel.
The current political turbulence in Franceās former colonies in Africa can perhaps be understood as the continuation of an unfinished project of decolonization.
No one better exemplifies the Democratic Partyās overarching identity politics than California Governor Gavin Newsom.
For the tenth time in the last 30 years, the United Nations vote to authorize an occupation of Haiti.
