It Doesn’t Have to Be ‘Us’ vs. ‘Them’

It Doesn’t Have to Be ‘Us’ vs. ‘Them’

| Jul 27, 2016 | Rights / DemocracyIt’s increasingly easy to believe that our country is irreconcilably divided. But that’s not quite the America that Michael Morrill saw from his perch in Reading, Pennsylvania the weekend before the Republican convention in Cleveland. Morrill, the...
Populism Even Republicans Can Get Behind

Populism Even Republicans Can Get Behind

| | Rights / DemocracyWhat if organizers and volunteers joined forces to run a nationwide campaign to replace today’s corporate-owned congress — all at once? Yes, one sweeping campaign against all incumbents of either party who owe their jobs to Big Money. A new campaign called Brand New...
I Can’t Watch Another Police Killing

I Can’t Watch Another Police Killing

| Jul 20, 2016 | Rights / DemocracyPhilando Castile and Alton Sterling became the latest black Americans to turn into Twitter hashtags when videos of their deaths at the hands of police circulated on social media. But I couldn’t bring myself to watch them. I still remember the helpless...