Against the Current, No. 184, September/October 2016
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A Giant, Flushing Sound
— The Editors - Support Chelsea Manning
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BLM Movement Grows Stronger
— Malik Miah -
black bodies in the news
— Kim D. Hunter - Amnesty Now
- Victory in Shutting Down Oakland Coal Port
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The Queer Movement Today
— Donna Cartwright -
Abortion Victory
— Dianne Feeley -
Detroit's Tax Foreclosure Crisis
— Dianne Feeley -
The RNC Comes and Goes
— Alice Ragland -
Socialists Discuss During the DNC
— Johanna Brenner -
Why "Lesser Evilism" Is a Loser
— Jill Stein - Challenging Duopoly Candidates
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Turkey, A Human Rights Emergency
— David Finkel, for The Editors -
War Against the Kurds Renewed
— Sarah Parker and Phil Hearse - China's Climate of Repression
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Was Brexit a Working-Class Revolt?
— Kim Moody -
Viewpoint: The Living Legacy of Cornel West
— Zachary R. Wood - Memorial Essay
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On Benedict Anderson
— John Roosa - Reviews
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Where Did Our Red Love Go?
— John Marsh -
Early U.S. Communism Revisited
— Ted McTaggart -
A Legless Veteran's Struggle
— Barry Sheppard -
When Chinese Labor Strikes
— Jane Slaughter -
The Revolutionary Art of Failure
— Benjamin Balthaser -
Allen Ginsberg and the '60s Movement
— Steve Bloom - In Memoriam
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Requiem for a Black Trotskyist
— Alan Wald -
Michael Ratner
— Michael Steven Smith - Michael Ratner in Brief
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Glenn Shelton
— Detroit Solidarity
PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS commuted the unjust prison sentences of hundreds of federal prisoners, mostly for nonviolent drug violations. Unfortunately, there is no evidence that he intends to take action to free prisoners in politically charged cases.
Leonard Peltier’s conviction in the 1975 deaths of two FBI agents, during a confrontation with the American Indian Movement, was highly dubious and the government admitted decades ago that it doesn’t know who the actual killers were. An Amnesty International petition for clemency can be found online at http://bit.ly/2b64aFx.
It seems even less likely that the president will act to free Chelsea Manning, who was driven to a suicide attempt at Fort Leavenworth, or pardon John Kiriakou who served a 30-month sentence for the “crime” of exposing the use of waterboarding in the torture of terrorism suspects. The Obama presidency will pass into history with a legacy of more ”espionage” trials than any other administration in U.S. history.
Amnesty for victims of injustice at the state and federal level is long overdue!
September-October 2016, ATC 184