Archiv vom 31. August 2014

[col. writ. 8/31/14] © ’14 Mumia Abu-Jamal
 What is Labor Day, 2014?
A day like all other days, not in honor of workers, but in cruel irony of workers’ impotence and defeat.
Celebrate Labor Day?  Yeah, sure.
But attack unions; denigrate union organizing, while calling for wage cuts and deregulation. They are called lazy and incompetent and even Hollywood joins the fray with a recent movie.  Remember “Bad Teacher”?
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[col. writ. 8/31/14] © ’14 Mumia Abu-Jamal

Before recent days, who among us had ever heard of Ferguson, Missouri?
Because of what happened there, the brief but intense experience of state repression, its name will be transmitted by millions of Black mouths to millions of Black ears, and it will become a watchword for resistance, like Watts, like Newark, Harlem and L.A.
But Ferguson wasn’t 60 years […]

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