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Chris Hedges
The New Slave Revolt
12 Oct 2016
by Chris Hedges Severe state repression and a near-total press blackout make it impossible to determine how many prisoners are continuing the national work strike that began on September 9th. The…
Chris Hedges
Hundreds Arrested in Washington’s “Democracy Spring”
20 Apr 2016
by Chris Hedges The corporate media has staged a blackout of massive protests against the rule of the rich, involving “the largest number of arrests at the Capitol in decades” – just one more example…
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America’s Slave Empire: The Resistance Movements Against US Prisons
24 Jun 2015
by Chris Hedges “We are not looking to politicians to submit reform bills,” say prisoners in Alabama, withholding work until they are paid wages. “We aren’t giving more money to lawyers. We don’t…
Chris Hedges
Boycott, Divest and Sanction Corporations That Feed on Prisons
15 Apr 2015
by Chris Hedges A coalition of organizations led by the Interfaith Prison Coalition has concluded that the only way to roll back the monstrous U.S. prison gulag is to boycott the corporations that…
Chris Hedges
Malcolm X Was Right About America
04 Feb 2015
by Chris Hedges Malcolm X, who was assassinated on February 21, 1965, recognized a half century ago that capitalism is a dying social system. “As the nations of the world free themselves, then…
Chris Hedges
Rebellion in Ferguson: A Rising Heat in the Suburbs
27 Aug 2014
/*-->*/ by Chris Hedges Veteran journalist Chris Hedges explores the “ebb and flow” of the Black liberation movement with veteran organizer Larry Hamm, of Newark, New Jersey’s People’s Organization…
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Cornel West and the Fight to Save the Black Prophetic Tradition
10 Sep 2013
by Chris Hedges African Americans have historically been the most progressive U.S. constituency because of the Black prophetic tradition, best personified today by Dr. Cornel West. This tradition has…
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America’s Disappeared
14 Aug 2013
by Chris Hedges When three guys go missing in the ghetto, it’s an ordinary event. The criminal justice system is a body-snatcher. “In America, when you are poor, you can instantly disappear into the…
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Rise Up or Die
21 May 2013
by Chris Hedges As more and more of the nation is transformed into “sacrifice zones” like Detroit and Camden, New Jersey, with civil liberties stripped bare, the biosphere pushed to the point of no…
Chris Hedges
The Persecution of Lynne Stewart
24 Apr 2013
by Chris Hedges Lynne Stewart has served three years for the crime of zealously defending her client. Suffering stage 4 cancer, she sometimes sheds “a few tears at the love and intensity of those who…