I’ve been saying this for some time, but here’s an essay by Sara Robinson from Alternet: Fascist America: Have We Finally Turned the Corner?

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Remarks by Slavoj Žižek on creating a program for the Occupy Movement: Occupy Wall Street: What Is To Be Done … Next?

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A piece by Sarah Jaffe on why the labor movement remains the key to everything: Labor Unions’ Fight for the 99% Goes Way Beyond Raising Campaign Dollars

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All right, let me make this simple: There is NO volume of crime committed by people with whom I share a non-criminal characteristic that would justify abridging my freedom to come and go, to walk down any street. None. In response to the demand that George Zimmerman be brought to justice — and that’s all [...]

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Why do people like George Zimmerman get so much of a pass? There’s a piece in the latest Time by Touré on the advice that has to be given to young African-American men about staying alive in the face of racism. Reading it, I couldn’t help thinking about the advice people have to give their [...]

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