Why Are Things As They Are?

We Say Fightback! Coppers Use Gas, Flashbangs, Clubs, Fists on Occupy Oakland Police faced off Saturday afternoon with hundreds of Occupy movement protesters, arresting more than a hundred of them during a much-anticipated demonstration focused on the planned takeover of a vacant downtown convention center…But a group that numbered about 300 at an initial rally [...]

We Say Fight Back! Where is Bull Connor when the UC Regents So Do Need Him? UC Riverside police detained three people during protests Thursday, Jan. 19, outside the UC Board of Regents meeting taking place on campus. One protester was released without charge. Two were arrested and booked on suspicion of felony assault on [...]

We Say Fightback! Workers to Face Coast Guard at Longview (1st time since the postal strike the military mobilized to crush a strike) The U.S. Coast Guard will escort the first ship coming to the EGT grain terminal at the Port of Longview this month, and the Occupy movement and local labor groups say they [...]

We Say  Fightbakc! This is the Fifteenth Anniversary of the Founding of the Rouge Forum! It is the 75th Anniversary of the Great Flint Srike against GM (full video linked here  http://flinthistory.com/general-motors/with-babies-banners/?replytocom=364) It is the 100th Anniversaryy of the IWW Free Speech Fight in San Diego Jack Gerson on the Occupy Oakland and West Coast [...]