Education and Capitalism: Struggles for Learning and Liberation

A public forum with authors Bill Bigelow, Jesse Hagopian, Sarah Knopp and Adam Sanchez A conservative consensus dominates the discussion about what?s wrong with our schools and how to fix them: scapegoat teachers, vilify our unions, and promise more private control and market solutions. In each case, students lose?especially students of color and the children Read more about Education and Capitalism: Struggles for Learning and Liberation[…]

Embed with the US in Honduras

Dawn Paley provides some excellent commentary on the US’s ongoing intervention in Honduras and the continued spin spat out by feckless embedded journalists pushing the Pentagon’s party line. May 6, 2012 Embedded NYT Reporter Boosts US War in Honduras (and why we shouldn’t listen) Today’s edition of the New York Times featured a front page Read more about Embed with the US in Honduras[…]

Variety V: Occupation Nation

As zombies threaten to consume all that’s left of our spectacular society, B Media’s “Occupation Nation” slams the new era of global uprising into an hour-long episode of remixed shorts that explore the philosophical roots of the recent movement of 99%. The mycelia network that has spread across the world is deeply rooted in historical Read more about Variety V: Occupation Nation[…]

Northwest March in Solidarity With Leonard Peltier

People from across the Pacific Northwest converged on Tacoma to rally outside the Federal Justice Center to demand the release of political prisoner Leonard Peltier. Numerous questions about his case have consistently been overlooked and ignored and even as his health fails he has been denied parole.

New Video: Undocumented and Unafraid at Tacoma’s Northwest Detention Center

Youth and their allies from around the Pacific Northwest rally outside the Immigration Custom Enforcement (ICE – a federal government organization) privately run, for profit, detention center. The Undocumented and Unafraid youth protested the targeting and criminalizatoin of immigrant communities with racist legislation like the American Legislative Exchange Council’s (ALEC) SB1070 bill in Arizona.

The Juice Spills All Over Kony 2012.

Love it or hate it, Kony 2012 has had alot of confusing talk around it. Here to help us discern some of the deeper issues at stake is a special report with intrepid reporter Robert Foster with Rap News.