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3 weeks ago | 
dissentmagazine.org | Duncan Hosie |Joseph A. McCartin |Michael Walzer |Bill Fletcher Jr
The Degradation of Big Law
By intimidating and disarming potential sources of legal resistance, Trump weakens one of the last institutional barriers standing between his administration and unbridled executive power.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
forgeorganizing.org | Daniel Hunter |Bill Fletcher Jr
The key to taking effective action in a Trump world is to avoid perpetuating the autocrat’s goals of fear, isolation, exhaustion and disorientation. It’s important we squarely face Trump’s victory and what there is to do about it. Trump has already signaled the kind of president he will be: revengeful, uncontrolled and unburdened by past norms and current laws.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
znetwork.org | Bill Fletcher Jr |Dave Zirin
Bill FletcherJr. is one of the most revered political organizers of the last 40 years. He’s been an activist since his teen years and joined the labor movement after college when he worked as a welder in a shipyard. He has worked for and with numerous unions and was the founder of Black Workers for Justice. Fletcher is also the former president of TransAfrica Forum and the writer of several books of both nonfiction and fiction.
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
portside.org | Bill Fletcher Jr |Dave Zirin
How We Can Defend Ourselves in the New Trump Era Published November 10, 2024 Bill Fletcher Jr. is one of the most revered political organizers of the last 40 years and a Nation editorial board member. He’s been an activist since his teen years and joined the labor movement after college when he worked as a welder in a shipyard. He has worked for and with numerous unions and was the founder of Black Workers for Justice.
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
portside.org | Bill Fletcher Jr
Rethinking the Concept of the “Social Movement Left” Published July 15, 2024 In the early 2000s in the USA, increased attention was paid to the work of the iconic Chilean Marxist, Marta Harnecker.
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Jul 13, 2024 | 
znetwork.org | Medea Benjamin |Bill Fletcher Jr |David Dayen |Amy Goodman
As the world watched Thursday night, President Biden held his first solo press conference this year, after hosting a NATO conference in which he accidentally referred to Ukrainian President Zelensky as Russian President Putin before quickly correcting himself.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
znetwork.org | Bill Fletcher Jr
In the early 2000s in the USA, increased attention was paid to the work of the iconic Chilean Marxist, Marta Harnecker. Writing in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Harnecker offered significant insight into what has come to be known as the “crisis of socialism,” and specifically, the strategic and conceptual challenges facing the contemporary socialist Left in building a new emancipatory politics, strategy, and practice.
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May 1, 2024 | 
forgeorganizing.org | Sumaya Awad |Bill Fletcher Jr
Sumaya Awad of the Adalah Justice Project explains BDS, its urgency, and why it is essential for ending Israel’s policies of genocide and apartheid. We are now more than six months into Israel’s unfolding genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Horrifying footage from the ground in Al-Shifa Hospital will haunt us for decades to come. Hollow echoes of “Never Again” have lost all meaning as we watch live the evisceration of Palestinian men, women, and children.
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Feb 26, 2024 | 
zinnedproject.org | Bill Fletcher Jr
Crispus Attucks was a merchant seaman and dockworker of African and Wampanoag descent. On March 5, 1770, he was the first person shot to death by the British during the Boston Massacre, in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Feb 23, 2024 | 
zinnedproject.org | Bill Fletcher Jr |Deborah Menkart
By Mary Beth TinkerThis February 24th marks 55 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Tinker v. Des Moines that “state operated schools may not be enclaves of totalitarianism” and that public school students are “persons under our constitution, possessed of fundamental rights,” as Justice Abe Fortas wrote for the 7–2 majority. I was one of the student plaintiffs in the case.
