Posted on September 12, 2009 by adamfreedom
Over the Labor Day weekend Van Jones resigned his position as an special adviser on green jobs to the Obama administration amid a flurry of controversy around attacks by the usual suspects on the right raising a fit over his past associations with the left. Its hard to speculate whether it was his own [...]
Filed under: current events | Tagged: AFL-CIO, Carl Davidson, Eva Paterson, Gompers, Green Jobs, Obama, right wing, Rosa Clemente, STORM, The Green Colllar Economy, Van Jones | Leave a Comment »
Posted on May 13, 2009 by adamfreedom
The piece below from Chicago left blog Pilsenprole anlyzes the political terrian that led to the smaller turnout of the 2009 May Day rallies around immigration rights- though still more than the conservative media and well funded founcation sponsored Tea Party Protests this past April 15th. I couldn’t help but see many of the similarities with San Jose and I’m [...]
Filed under: Article Repost, The Movement, organizing | Tagged: Chicago, FOX News, immigrant rights, international workers day, May Day, Obama, Tea Party | Leave a Comment »
Posted on May 7, 2009 by adamfreedom
Once again San Jose led the Bay Area with the largest protest in Northern California for May 1, 2009. While poor weather and swine flu scares turned many would-be marches away, many saw this years May Day immigrant rights march as the most spirited and significant since the massive march of 2006 when nearly [...]
Filed under: Humor, Labor, Reflection, The Movement, organizing | Tagged: Central Valley, comics, foreclosure, immigrant rights, Immigration movement, international workers day, La Cancion del Gripe Marrano, Labor, May Day, Obama, Repo Home Tour, San Jose, Silicon Valley De-Bug, Stockton, swine flu, Swine wow, workers | 1 Comment »
Posted on March 19, 2009 by adamfreedom
Did folks catch this?
Obama announced his new education policy recently (read the Mercury News article here) … The three main elements were improved early childhood education (good), lift limits on charter schools (mixed bag), and link teacher pay to students performance on standardized testing (really bad). While early childhood education would be a marked improvment, [...]
Filed under: News, Ramblings | Tagged: education policy, NCLB, Obama | Leave a Comment »
Posted on February 19, 2009 by adamfreedom
A Short Road to Nowhere for the Left
Speaking of the old new left- “The Bumpy Road Ahead: New Tasks of the Left Following Obama’s Victory” is a strategy and analysis piece circulated by folks who do believe the state/electoral alliances/politics can be a vehicle for change leading to revolution. The piece is by ex-SDS leader Carl Davidson, who is [...]
Filed under: Article Repost, Marxism, the left | Tagged: elections, left strategy, Obama | Leave a Comment »
Posted on February 19, 2009 by adamfreedom
Everybody Wants A New Old Left
By Elliot Liu, www.linesblog.com/
A response piece by Elliott Liu of APOC-NYC to two proposals for new directions, along with cohesion and regroupment among the socialist left. The first piece, Which Way Is Left is by Freedom Road Socialist Organization, a nationwide soft/post-Maoist group formed during the 1980’s with the merger [...]
Filed under: Article Repost, Latin America, Left Organizations, Marxism | Tagged: Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Latin America, Obama, social movements, Stanley Aronowitz, the left | Leave a Comment »
Posted on March 29, 2008 by adamfreedom
Commentary to come….
WE ARE THE LEADERS WE’VE BEEN WAITING FOR
by Sandy Perry
My people’s suffering
pierced me, entangled
my soul like barbed wire:
gripped my heart:
I went to cry out at the crossroads,
I went out to weep, enveloped in mist,
I touched the doors and they wounded me
like sharp-pointed knives,
I called out to the impassive faces
that I adored before like [...]
Filed under: Ramblings, The Movement | Tagged: Election, Obama, Poor People's Movements | 1 Comment »
