Why Are Things As They Are?

We Say Fight Back! The Grenada Invasion as Training Ground for Future Wars–Overcoming Vietnam Syndrome The invasion of Grenada, more than 20 years ago, presaged many of the events that blowback on the US today: unilateral warfare, official deceit about the motives for war, a massive military moving against an imagined foe, stifling the press, [...]

We Say Fight Back! Susan Ohanian: Against Obedience This article was originally delivered as the Second Annual Adam Renner Education for Social Justice Lecture at the Rouge Forum’s Occupy Education! Class Conscious Pedagogies and SocialChange Conference held at Miami University in Oxford, OH, June 22-24, 2012. Starting with a personal journey in learning that political [...]

We Say Fight Back! American Ghost Dancers Nurses Rally for Robin Hood Tax on Wall St  (Robin, remember, shot them) More than 6,000 nurses and activists gathered at Daley Plaza in Chicago Friday to rock out with musician Tom Morello and call for a tax on financial speculation — a Robin Hood tax. This small [...]

We Say Fight Back! YEAR ELEVEN IN THE ERA OF PERPETUAL WAR Why March, Again, on October 7? Same reason as before Mass Student/Worker Resistance Across Europe–it’s not Austerity, it is Capitalism in Rapid Decay Angry and violent protests against austerity measures continue to flare across Europe, with thousands of students across Italy fighting cutbacks. [...]