This article originally appeared in Revolution On Wednesday, March 9, Republicans in the Wisconsin State Legislature rammed through Governor Scott Walker’s bill to essentially break public employees unions. The bill amounts to…
Category: The Culture of Bigotry
"The World Can’t Wait organizes people living in the United States to repudiate and stop the fascist direction initiated by the Bush Regime, including: the murderous, unjust and illegitimate occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan; the global “war of terror” of torture, rendition and spying; and the culture of bigotry, intolerance and greed."
-from World Can't Wait's mission statement adopted 2009
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Glenn Beck’s Egypt Freakout
By Michelle Goldberg Store food and prepare for the coming global insurrection: That’s the warning Glenn Beck issued Monday. The Muslim Brotherhood and American radicals, he informed us, are operating in tandem…
Defend Dr. Frances Fox Piven!
Via Revolution newspaper: After more than a year of sustained vilification of and emotional provocations against Frances Fox Piven by Fox News commentator and Tea Party hero Glenn Beck, Dr. Piven has…
The Fight Over Ethnic Studies in Tucson, Arizona
Via Revolution newspaper: As the new year opened, the outgoing head of public education in Arizona, Tom Horne, issued an official “finding” declaring that the Mexican American Studies program in the Tucson…
Tea Party Nation Prez Wants to ‘Rewrite’ Constitution; Thinks Allowing Only Landowners to Vote ‘Makes Sense’
Judson Phillips runs one of the largest Tea Party social networks, and thinks too many young and poor people are voting. So he’d like to change the Constitution. By Adele M. Stan…
The Culture That Killed Tyler Clementi
By Sunsara Taylor By now, the events leading up to the suicide of Tyler Clementi, a gay student at Rutgers University in New Jersey, have been widely reported. On September 19, Tyler…
Tuskeegee, Guatemala…
By Margaret Kimberley “The poorly educated black farmers in Alabama and the prisoners and mental patients in Guatemala had one important thing in common. They were not white.” The Nazi “Doctor of…
Amarillo Texas: Skateboarder Foils Would-Be Koran Burner
Jillian Rayfield A would-be Koran-burner in Amarillo, Texas was foiled by a 23-year-old skateboarder named Jacob Isom, who was among a group of about 200 people protesting a planned burning September 11….
Glenn Beck Could Happen Here
By Harvey Wasserman Now that the dust has settled from Glenn Beck’s weekend revival at the Lincoln Memorial, two messages need to be delivered loud and clear. First: the United States of…
“Sacred” Ground Zero
By Margaret Kimberley The controversy generated by the so-called “ground zero mosque” is both illuminating and terrifying. In case there were any doubts, it proves that America is still a vast…