Viewpoints
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Support Immigration Reform and the CIR ASAP Bill!
Support the Comprehensive Immigration Reform for for America's Security and Prosperity Act of 2009. Luis Guiterriez (D-Illinois) has introduced a progressive bill that constructively addresses long-standing immigration issues in a just and humane manner.
Date of first Azine posting:12/22/2009 -
Afghanistan: The Regional Alternative to Escalation
This article is reposted under an exchange agreement with War-Times
Date of first Azine posting:12/10/2009 -
The Policy Drive for Inequality in the United States
Thanks to Kim Geron
We often see the dramatic increase in inequality in the U.S. as an inevitable consequence of outside forces such as globalization and technology. John Schmitt of the Center for Economic and Policy Research describes and argues that inequality was part of the policy of political elites to drive back workers, people of color, women, the environmental movement and other progressive social movements in the decades previous to the 70's.
The report is attached.
Date of first Azine posting:11/01/2009 -
Whose Peace? Our Peace: War and occupations continue under Obama; resistance grows at home
Reprinted from Resist Newsletter
By Clare MoenDate of first Azine posting:07/10/2009 -
With 'Buy American' Back, is Anti-Asian Sentiment Around the Corner?
By Lynda Lin, Pacific Citizen
In bad economic times, history has shown that the 'us' in the 'us versus them' does not include Asian Americans.
On Sundays when the weather permits, Cincinnati resident Jim Berns likes to take American flags and homemade signs to busy street corners. There, he waves at passing cars while holding up signs that say, "Honk if you love the USA" and "Buy made in the USA."
Date of first Azine posting:03/06/2009 -
Bail-out the People, Not the Banks
In its first month, the Obama administration has proposed a $800 billion stimulus plan, asked for the remainder of $700 million TARP program to bail out financial firms, and proposed another Trillion to support the banks and a Trillion to support loans. This is on top of money for Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, GM, Chrysler, and Ford. In order words we're committing over FOUR TRILLION dollars of our money or $11,000 for every person - man, women, or child - in the U.S.
Date of first Azine posting:02/14/2009 -
The Meaning of an Obama Administration
The election of Obama was a breakthrough for the Black upper class. It signaled the capitalist system’s need, in the wake of changing global conditions, to weaken the racial caste system that has characterized U.S. history. It signaled that U.S. capitalism had to adjust to popular opposition to that history of racial discrimination and exploitation. It also signifies a retreat from the proto-fascist (and I don’t use the term lightly) policies of the far right wing of the ruling class.
Date of first Azine posting:01/17/2009 -
NOW IS THE TIME FOR IMMIGRATION REFORM
Eric Quezada and Gen Fujioka
Immigrant communities are facing a critical moment of truth.
Date of first Azine posting:11/24/2008 -
President Obama and Organizing
edited and supplemented 12/3/08
We asked organizers what how they thought the election of Barack Obama, the country's first African American president, would affect organizing and social justice in the U.S. If you have opinions, please send them in.
Date of first Azine posting:11/15/2008 -
Wins Executives Indicted in San Francisco
In 2001, the state of California shut down a factory at which the workers ? mostly Chinese immigrant women who did not speak English ? had not been paid in months. In the years since, these workers have not only had to struggle against their former employers to demand the wages they earned and never received, but they were also sold out by the Department of Labor, which settled with the factory owners and agreed not to pursue the remainder of the workers? wages. (See previous articles .)
Date of first Azine posting:10/11/2004
