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Bill Quigley
Cynthia McKinney: "Mr. President: Give Us a Clean Break from War"
28 Jan 2009
"The American people voted for change and peace," says the Green Party's recent presidential candidate. "President Obama's current path will produce neither." Former Georgia Congresswoman McKinney urges Obama to call directly on "the elected representatives of the Palestinian people and that means…
Bill Quigley
Holding Obama Accountable, Part 2 of a Series – Single Payer Health Care and the Auto Industry
19 Nov 2008
by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon In the second installment of this series, we examine the connection between the auto industry's crisis and single payer health care. Should the auto industry get a Wall Street style blank check bailout? Or is this the ideal time to make US auto and other…
Bill Quigley
Medicare-For-All Will Create 2.6 Million New Jobs, Say CA Nurses
04 Feb 2009
by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon With the inaguration only two or three weeks behind us, pundits and politicians are already urging us to take our eyes off the health care football while they "fix" the economy. Promises to enact a universal national health care plan, only a few months old, are…
Bill Quigley
Single Payer Advocates Nearly Shut Out of Obama Health Forum
11 Mar 2009
Click the flash player above to hear this Black Agenda Radio commentary, or click here to download an mp3 copy. A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Were it not for a concerted drive by labor and other health care champions, President Obama's White House Health Forum would not…
Bill Quigley
The Economic N-Word: What it Means, and Doesn't
11 Mar 2009
Click the flash player above to hear this Black Agenda Radio commentary, or click here to download an mp3 copy. A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Corporatists of all kinds are now mouthing the dreaded N-Word - "nationalization" of banks. But they're only talking about a…
Bill Quigley
Remembering Ida B. Wells
11 Mar 2009
by Sikivu Hutchinson Women’s History Month cannot be allowed to pass without recognition of Ida B. Wells, an indefatigable opponent of American lynch law, pioneering Black journalist, and one of the founding mothers of the modern civil rights movement. Wells was “perhaps the only nursing mother to…
Bill Quigley
One, Two, Three, Many Domestic Guantanamos
11 Mar 2009
by C. Uzondu The United States maintains Guantanamo-like prisons around the globe, but its most populous Gulag is here in the U.S., home of one-quarter the world’s prisoners, about half of them Black. “it is absolutely necessary…to remind ourselves that the ascendancy of a Black man to the White…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Endless War
04 Mar 2009
by BAR Editor and Senior Columnist Margaret Kimberley Why are more Republicans happy with Obama's policies on government secrecy, wiretapping, non-withdrawal from Iraq, unqualified support for Israel and a host of other policies than most of the Democratic party's own base? What do they know that…
Bill Quigley
Priced Out of Shelter: The Decline in Affordable Housing
04 Mar 2009
Click the flash player above to hear this Black Agenda Radio commentary, or click here to download an mp3 copy. A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by Glen Ford While “most public policyattention has been directed at the plight of home owners, one-third of all Americans pay rent” and their…
Bill Quigley
DC Private School Vouchers May Be On Way Out
04 Mar 2009
Click the flash player above to hear this Black Agenda Radio commentary, or click here to download an mp3 copy. A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford The stimulus package passed by Congress also includes provisions that should put George Bush's school voucher plan for Washington,…