If you managed to attend the annual DC gathering of the Congressional Black Caucus last week you know it was more the "Corporate Black Caucus" that was on display. Goodie bags from Coca-cola, a health care summit sponsored by Pfizer, and the logos from Wal-Mart, Lockheed and Boeing were everywhere to tell you who paid the bills and called the shots at this annual celebration of supposed black political empowerment. In the midst of this den of corporate iniquity, Russell Moniker from Single Payer Action cornered Rep. Conyers to inquire on the status of single payer.
“People Have a Right to Go Into a Restaurant and Have Dinner”
“With each passing day under Trump, the mythology of US exceptionalism becomes more fragile.”
“Cutting-edge biomedical technology actually perpetuates certain inequalities.”
“The constraints empire placed on its racial contradictions are falling away.”
“Mainstream feminists never quite knew what to do with the welfare rights movement.”
