The heroes of the 1969 rebellion at the Stonewall Inn in New York certainly weren’t shy about who they were! Prominent in their ranks were sex workers and those who we would today call trans and gender diverse. They fought alongside other working class queers of colour.… Read more ...
June-July 2013 – Volume 34, No. 3
MOVIE REVIEW 
Bless Me, Ultima: A Chicano boy’s profound coming of age
Yolanda Alaniz
June 2013
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Tony with his midwife and mentor, Ultima. Photo: Tenaja Productions |
The movie Bless me, Ultima is based on a novel by Rudolfo Anaya published in 1972. Anaya is one of the founders of contemporary Chicano literature, and his book is on many school reading lists, especially for Chicano studies.… Read more ...
From the Freedom Socialist Party website:
LGBT Community to March in Support of Gay Whistleblower Bradley Manning at Pride Parades Across the Country
WHERE: Pride Parades in Chicago, New York City, San Francisco, Seattle
WHEN: Sunday, June 30th
CONTACT: Lisa Geduldig (San Francisco) (415) 205-6515 – lisag@igc.org
Elias Holtz (New York) (206) 351-9623 – bradleyprideny@gmail.com
Andy Thayer, (Chicago) (773) 209-1187 – LGBTliberation@aol.com
Su Docekal, (Seattle) (206) 722-2453 – sudocekal@comcast.net
FACEBOOK: San Francisco – https://www.facebook.com/events/327236664071988
Seattle – https://www.facebook.com/events/616685815021903/
New York City – https://www.facebook.com/events/421403307955701
Chicago – https://www.facebook.com/events/159165120875391/
LGBT supporters of Private First Class Bradley Manning are showing their support in numbers at Gay Pride Parades across the country Sunday, June 30th, to both bring attention to his plight and to advocate for his release from prison.… Read more ...
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June-July 2013 – Volume 34, No. 3
RADICAL WOMEN
Let’s build a movement for quality, publicly funded childcare!
Gina Petry
June 2013
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Both full-grown and small participants helped at a Sisters Organize for Survival sign-making party in February 2013. |
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June-July 2013 – Volume 34, No. 3
VOICES OF COLOR
Public education at stake: leaders and misleaders in the fight for Crenshaw High
Yuisa Gimeno
June 2013
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Student activist Anita Parker speaks on behalf of the Crenshaw Cougar Coalition at a press conference protesting the school district’s reconstitution plan, Jan. |
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June-July 2013 – Volume 34, No. 3
Interview with organizer Pepe Palacios
A proud gay resistance fighter speaks out
Stephen Durham (the 2012 Freedom Socialist Party write-in presidential candidate – KL)
June 2013
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LGBT march on 2012 International Day Against Homophobia, Tegucigalpa, Honduras. |
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June-July 2013 – Volume 34, No. 3
The living ideas of Clara Fraser, the original socialist feminist
June 2013
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Introduction: The following selections, compiled by Adrienne Weller, pay tribute to the groundbreaking politics of Clara Fraser on the 15th anniversary of her death.… Read more ...
June-July 2013 – Volume 34, No. 3
From Cyprus to the US
And now this: open theft by banks!
Steven Strauss
June 2013
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What’s it called when workers deposit their hard-earned cash into their modest bank accounts only to find out that a politician has grabbed an armful of the money and handed it over to failing banks?… Read more ...
June-July 2013 – Volume 34, No. 3
City College of San Francisco
What strategy will defeat the privatizers?
Monica Hill
June 2013
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A throng of City College of San Francisco students and other supporters of public education descend on City Hall during a March 14, 2013, rally. Photo: Nancy Reiko Kato / FS |
The Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC) has been attacking California community colleges since 2001.… Read more ...
Feminism and the crisis in the British Socialist Workers Party
Toward the end of 2012, two members of the British Socialist Workers Party charged a national leader with rape and sexual assault. The manner in which these allegations were handled by the party leadership has shaken the organization to the core and opened up a public discussion about the SWP’s positions on feminism and democratic centralism and about whether cases of rape within a revolutionary party are matters for the police.… Read more ...
June-July 2013 – Volume 34, No. 3
EDITORIAL
FBI steps up vendetta against Assata Shakur
June 2013
Thirty-six years after Assata Shakur’s frame-up conviction for the murder of a state trooper, and 34 years after her escape from prison to Cuba, the FBI has made her the first woman placed on its list of most wanted terrorists.… Read more ...
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June-July 2013 – Volume 34, No. 3
A socialist take on gun violence, state violence, and workers’ right to self-defense
Monica Hill
June 2013
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An AIM member at the 1973 defense of Wounded Knee, S.D., on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. |