Powerful interests don’t want students to “interrogate the systems of power and privilege that are at stake” in today’s struggles, said Dr Gilda Ochoa, a professor of Chicano/Latino Studies at Pomona College and supporter of legislation requiring all students in California’s public university system to pass an ethnic studies course before graduation. The bill was put on hold in the face of fierce opposition. Seventy-five percent of the state’s K1-12 students are non-whites, but few students or teachers “have learned this crucial history,” said Ochoa.
This is going to become a problem for the Pentagon, whether it's on Navy destroyers, submarines, and aircraft carriers or the 800+ bases.
CEO from Boeing to CEO from Wells Fargo, heard by the flies on walls at Mar-a-Lago: “It’s their health or our economy— we get to choose…”
The systemic failure of the capitalist order triggered by the coronavirus has reinforced the growing awareness that extreme wealth inequality is a fundamental characteristic of the system.
RAPROD carriers are convinced that blacks disproportionately carry guns and other contraband.
This week readers discussed the coronavirus’s relationship to NATO, sanctions, and the duopoly.
