Voices for Change

Our society should move away from racist conclusions, and toward the outrageous indecencies that a well-to-do society forces on us less fortunate members.

Dems make the future palatable,/ The right twists it intolerable.

If he wants to accuse other people of rape and intimidation, Trump should unseal his divorce papers and let voters assess his standing to make those charges.

The accomplishments of the freedom struggle, anti-lynching campaigns, the civil-rights movement are not insignificant. But that doesn’t change the white-supremacist roots and contemporary reality of the United States.

Difficult work remains for those in whom Martin Luther King Jr. had the most hope: the people, organizing grass-roots power for peace.

The billionaire-backed funding for Ted Cruz comes from those the billionaire-backed groups and individuals that oppose raising the minimum wage, or even the existence of a minimum wage, want to gut Medicare, Social Security and unemployment benefits, and want to reduce their own taxes even more.

Abu-Jamal’s current health crisis clearly illustrates this national atrocity. His situation is also clearly unconstitutional, as leaving an inmate untreated, including for a disease like diabetes, has been declared by the US Supreme Court to be "cruel and unusual punishment."

There was once a literate public. This is gone now, replaced by a vast burlesque.

#DemExit has trended repeatedly over the last several weeks as people have been outraged to see that once again working people have been left in the cold by the establishment parties.

The election in November will quite possibly be the last chance to save the republic without another revolution.