The Sky is Falling

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americandissident:

The World Bank Will Veto

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thepeoplesrecord:

TRAYVON MARTIN is dead because he was a young Black man walking where someone thought he shouldn’t be. His devastating story is as old as the United States—and it proves that racism is alive and well in 2012, while the first African American president sits in the White House.

The widespread shock and anger over what happened to Trayvon—and the beginnings of protest around the case—tell us something else, too: That large numbers of people are outraged by racist injustice in this and other forms.

A similar sense of outrage has been at the heart of some of the most important struggles for social change throughout U.S. history—struggles that transformed American society, not only for African Americans, but for everyone, in ways people often take for granted.

Those who care about creating a different world need to do whatever we can to win justice for Trayvon—to sharpen the anger people feel at his death, and to turn that anger into protest, against both his senseless murder and all the aspects of racism that caused it.

Racism is built into the fabric of capitalism, and so confronting it can’t stop with racist ideas--though it is important to challenge those ideas whenever they appear. Racism has to be confronted by struggle—and scapegoating by the spirit of solidarity, with the goal of building a multiracial working-class movement based upon championing the demands of all the oppressed and exploited.

The struggle against racism is not only an urgent moral obligation for anyone who hates bigotry. It is also an essential part of a wider struggle. That’s why all socialists and radicals need to respond to every outrage of hate and bigotry in whatever ways we can—and put the struggle against racism at the center of all our efforts to win change.

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Racism is built into capitalism as one of the primary means that a minority at the top maintains its rule. As the Black abolitionist Frederick Douglass put it, society’s masters “secured their ascendency over both the poor whites and the Blacks by putting enmity between them. They divided both to conquer each.”

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thedarkamethyst:

ethiopienne:

adflkasdflaksdflakdsfla i can’t…i just…i can’t…

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mimiopoly:

Feel the oppression.

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thepoliticalnotebook:

An Occupy Rochester sign inside a food tent reads “Stop Believing in Authority and Start Believing in Each Other.” Taken this February by Robert Tully Carr.

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itsnevernothing:

Doonesbury vs Abortion

devidsketchbook:

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Protest idea?   Seems like it would be too much of a hassle to clean up.

thedailywhat:

KC+CO Parody Poster of the Day: By far my favorite of these to date.

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