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“To Be Free Is to Free Others”: Formerly Incarcerated Women Urge Decarceration
We have a long way to go to bring justice to all the individuals who were harmed by the ‘tough on crime,’ zero-tolerance legislation passed in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s,” says Amy Povah, founder and...
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Students and Workers Take to the Streets on May Day for Palestine
On May Day, workers around the world mobilized for the liberation of Palestine. “This May Day, workers of the world are called to declare their solidarity with Palestine, to denounce the Israeli...
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Donald Trump and O.J. Simpson
It was the jokes about Trump’s rumored flatulence in the courtroom that pushed me toward despair. And don’t think it was disgust with the subject matter either. After all, I’ve lived with teenagers and...
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Organizing the South: We Look Back To Move Ahead
The significance of the landslide victory by the United Auto Workers (UAW) at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, TN cannot be overstated. One of the greatest sources of hope for the labor movement in...
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Media Coverage of Campus Protests Focuses on Spectacle, Rather Than Substance
Protest movements can look very different depending on where you stand, both literally and figuratively. For protesters, demonstrations are usually the result of meticulous planning by advocacy groups...
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Tackling California’s Budget Crisis: Raise Taxes, Cut Programs, or Form a Bank?
In 2022, the state of California celebrated a record budget surplus of $97.5 billion. Two years later, according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office, this surplus has plummeted to a record budget...
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New Era of Inequality: Billionaires Pay Less in Taxes Than the Working Class
Economist Gabriel Zucman’s analysis reveals a troubling milestone: U.S. billionaires now pay a lower effective tax rate than working-class Americans, marking the first time this disparity has been...
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Zach Shrewsbury Says His Senate Campaign in West Virginia Is About the Class...
When Barn Raiser first reached Zach Shrewsbury to interview the former Marine about his U.S. Senate campaign in West Virginia, he was trying to navigate the mountain roads of his home state amid a...
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Students Demanding Divestment: You’re on the Right Side of History
The following are remarks I delivered on Saturday, May 4, 2024 at the 55-year reunion of the Stanford University antiwar movement, in which I participated. On April 3, 1969, an estimated 700 Stanford...
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Israel Wants to Destroy Gaza, Annex the West Bank: But What Does Gaza Want?
What is taking place in occupied Palestine is not a conflict, but a straightforward case of illegal military occupation, apartheid, ethnic cleansing and outright genocide. Those who insist on using...
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Seattle 1934, Soviet on the docks
Rise like Lions after slumber– In unvanquishable number– Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you– Ye are many — they are few.’ -Percy Bysshe Shelley On the morning of May...
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Unfurling Love from the Window
On April 30, when Columbia University student protesters took over Hamilton Hall, they renamed it “Hind’s Hall,” dropping a large banner out the windows above the building’s entrance. This was a hall...
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June 10: Appeals Court to Hear Biden Genocide Case – Palestinians Seek End to...
May 7, 2024, San Francisco, CA – Palestinian human rights organizations, Palestinians, and Palestinian-Americans continue to press their case against President Biden, Secretary of State Blinken, and...
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Biden and Blinken – No Weapons To Israel As It Violates US And International Law
As Israel continues its merciless assault on Gaza, there is at least some sanity taking hold in regard to U.S. policy on military assistance to Israel. Several weapons shipments have been put on hold...
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The Nation’s Conscience
The courageous stance of students across the country in defiance of genocide is accompanied by a near total blackout of their voices. Their words are the ones we most need to hear. NEW YORK CITY: I am...
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Blood Gun Money – How America Arms Gangs and Cartels
Thousands of guns used by Mexican cartels, as well as other gangs throughout Latin America, have been traced back to U.S. gun manufacturers. Journalist Ioan Grillo describes how the flow of guns to...
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Frances Fox Piven Remembers Columbia, 1968
As the war on Gaza enters its seventh month of unrelenting destruction, students around the world are setting up encampments and occupying buildings to press their institutions to cut financial and...
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How the UAW Could Change the South
The UAW is on a roll. After winning stupendous contracts at the Big Three automakers this past year, the union then organized Volkswagen in Tennessee April 20. What’s eye-popping about this is that the...
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Palestine and History: Macklemore v. Hillary Clinton
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered herself of some ahistorical and distorted remarks about Palestine on Morning Joe, maintaining that the young people protesting the Gaza atrocities do...
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12 Arrested Outside NYC’s New School as First Faculty-Led Gaza Solidarity...
The first faculty-led Gaza solidarity encampment in the United States was launched Wednesday at The New School in New York City, where nearly two dozen professors and lecturers pitched tents inside the...
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