Disorganized. Chaotic and frustrating. A hot mess, let's call it. One reason last Saturday's March on Washington was hot be...

[ Like the piece I did last week about crowd estimates on steroids , this is a response to the Climate Change rally I attended in Washingto...

With May Day upon us and the semi-official Occupy! Spring Offensive starting. the two of us--Detroit Red and DJ D--have teamed up to crank ...

[Just a few days ago I posted a piece here on the impact the eviction of Occupy Wall Street! from Zuccotti Park (and the attacks on other e...

Me, I don’t have much memory of Nixon’s April 30, 1970 speech announcing the invasion of Cambodia. It could have been because nothing the ba...

You’ve got to hand it to the white supremacists running Arizona. As May 1 demonstrations are upon us coast to coast, with immigrants’ rights...

(This post is a gift--an odd one, granted--to my sweetheart, Dody. Her birthday falls on April 22.) The immediate trigger that got me writin...

[This important piece first appeared at the website of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization/ Organización Socialista del Camino para la L...

This week marks 50 years since the Greensboro, NC, sit-ins, the historic protest which launched the Black Freedom Struggle in this country o...

Yesterday marked the fifth anniversary of a George Bush quote so spectacularly dumb that it will make any greatest hits collectio...

[Some thoughts on the current conjuncture, triggered by reading the FRSO/OSCL statement, "Deepen the Struggle to Defund the War" ]...

It's Friday, and time for Take Five. Last week's inaugural list was five lefty mysteries . This time, it's a little more free-fo...

Yesterday, I joined some tens of thousands of New Yorkers in a solemn demonstration demanding justice for Sean Bell, the unarmed 23-year-old...

See the map? Lemme tell you where this map comes from. Every time a big peace or global justice demonstration is called for Washington , DC ...