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Help Save Peoples World The economic crisis has hit Peoples World hard. We need the support of all our friends and readers to continue publishing. ‘Georgia On My Mind: The Third Reconstruction’: Connecticut Black history event planned February 17, 2021 10:03 AM CDT By Joelle Fishman New Havens 2020 Black History Month unity march focused on the theme "Dump Trump." This years event will feature a street march, car carav...

Joelle Fishman Joelle Fishman chairs the Connecticut Communist Party USA. She is a Commissioner on the City of New Haven Peace Commission, serves on the executive board of the Alliance of Retired Americans in Connecticut and is an active member of many economic rights and social justice organizations. As chair of the CPUSA Political Action Commission, she has played an active role in the broad labor and peoples alliance and continues to mobilize for health care, worker rights and peace.     L...

In Biden’s Catholic Faith, an Ascendant Liberal Christianity President Biden, perhaps the most religiously observant commander in chief in half a century, speaks of how his Catholic faith grounds his life and his policies. President Biden and Jill Biden attended Mass at St. Matthew’s in Washington the morning of his inauguration. He quoted St. Augustine in his inaugural address.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times Hours before President Biden took the oath of office, he entered the ...

The nation shall overcome After four dark years of hate-filled leadership, the threat of white supremacist violence will persist. Still, there’s reason to be hopeful. By Abdallah Fayyad Globe Staff,Updated January 20, 2021, 3:45 p.m. Email to a Friend Union troops of Company F, 3d Regiment Massachusetts Heavy Artillery assembled at Fort Stevens in 1865, one year after Confederate soldiers attacked Washington, D.C.Library of Congress WASHINGTON – When Donald Trump incited a mob attack ...

From the press release: 2021 Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration to Reflect on Positions of Conscience The Rev. Dr. William J Barber II to speak as part of the MLK Advocacy for Justice Virtual Celebration, Sunday, January 17 at 3:00 pm.  CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Two longstanding Champaign County committees, Martin Luther King, Jr. Countywide Committee and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Advocacy for Justice Committee, Inc. unite this year to honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther Kin...

Opinion: Capitol assault echoes Civil War-era insurrections Laura Oren FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 A flag that reads "Treason" is visible on the ground in the early morning hours of Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021, after protesters stormed the Capitol in Washington, on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)Andrew Harnik, STF / Associated PressShow MoreShow Less 2of3 A member of the mob of Trump supporters carries the Confederate flag inside the Capitol building as Congress met to President-elect Joe Bidens v...

Last month an old interview of LeBron James resurfaced that quickly went viral on NBA Twitter. The grainy footage was from a program called HBO’s On the Record with Bob Costas that was recorded shortly before James made the jump from St Vincent-St Mary High to the professional ranks. By then he was already a national sensation – Sports Illustrated had featured him on its cover more than a year earlier under the headline THE CHOSEN ONE – having spent his final season of high school basketb...

I can brave bad weather —Pete Townshend It struck me just the other day that this is indeed the 100th anniversary of the year when Captain Walker came home suddenly and found his wife with another man, killed him, and set the whole plot in motion. This may not be important to anyone but me, but I thought it was worth noting, considering what the odds were that wed get this far. I mean, between murder hornets, the pandemic, and El Caudillo Del Mar-a-Lago, being around and healthy at the turni...

Capitalism Is Not Slavery, Socialism Is   Capitalism is slavery. That was the proclamation made by newly elected Congressman Jamaal Bowman during an interview earlier this week. ““I believe our current system of capitalism is slavery by another name,” he said. “We’ve moved from physical chattel enslavement and physical racial segregation to a plantation economic system. One that keeps the majority of Americans unemployed, or underemployed and struggling just to survive, while the p...

Help Save Peoples World The economic crisis has hit Peoples World hard. We need the support of all our friends and readers to continue publishing. Remembering Bruce Carver Boynton, anti-segregation fighter and Freedom Ride inspiration December 21, 2020 2:19 PM CDT By Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II And Elliott Smith At left, Bruce Carver Boynton in a recent photo. At right, an NAACP Freedom Bus in 1961. | AP and Florida Stat...