In this 55 minute audio by U of Illinois scholar and activist Pauline Lippman, she explains how the bipartisan push to privatize education by starving existing public schools, introducing charter schools in the name of “choice” and destroying teacher unions is key to a radical re-fashioning of American society by our wealthy corporate elite, one that is disastrous for the rest of us, our communities and our children. Courtesy of KPFA's Against the Grain.
Against The Grain is a three times a week radio show on Berkeley's KPFK Radio.
The US is the most profit-oriented, business-controlled society on Earth, and therefore the least able to cope with a national health emergency, which requires sacrifice of profit for the greater g
Rwanda’s most important woman is a former political prisoner who isn’t allowed to leave the country. “She’s not a leader of women. She’s a leader of people.”
Tuesday February 25 was proclaimed “Raymond Nat Turner Day” in Berkeley. Never in my wildest imagination had I dreamed of having a day in my honor.
Federal policies intended to end racial discrimination in housing and encourage Black homeownership actually wound up enabling predatory real estate practices.
Rev Jesse L Jackson, Sr delivered the following remarks on March 8 at a Bernie Sanders for President rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
