Poverty

Baltimore & Israel: A Global Gang of Colonizers

November 30, 2023 UNAC Editor Colonialism, Genocide, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Militarism, Militarized Police, Occupation, Palestine, Political Analysis, Poverty, Rights of Opressed Peoples, U.S. Aggression

by Netfa Freeman, published on Black Alliance for Peace, November 17, 2023 From Haiti to Puerto Rico and from the Congo to Baltimore, African (Black) people suffer from colonialism. Current atrocities happening to the people of Gaza and the West Bank clearly show the colonial reality of life and death in Palestine. What we see daily in Palestine is a[…]

The Situation of Older Workers in the U.S.

July 4, 2023 UNAC Editor Poverty, Socio-Economic Struggles, The War at Home

Published by Labor Today, July 1, 2023 When it comes to older workers in the United States, they live on the edge of the abyss in the land of plenty. Neoliberalism is privatizing all government services into corporate profit centers. The richest country in the world spends all its resources on war and imperialist adventures. Through Fiscal Year 2022, the[…]

Food Cuts Show Women Bear Brunt of Deepening Economic Crisis

April 27, 2023 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Human Rights, Oppression of Women, Poverty, Socialism, US Government Action

by Monica Moorehead, published on Workers World, March 16, 2023 No matter how large or small, no class struggle can be put into its social context without understanding the current global capitalist economic crisis. Neoliberal policies flow from long-term and short-term fluctuations within the capitalist system, which no ruling class can ultimately control. There used to be periods of ebbs[…]

Protesters Charged With Terrorism in Atlanta

March 21, 2023 UNAC Editor Militarized Police, Police Brutality, Political Corruption, Poverty, Rights of Opressed Peoples, The War at Home, Violence Against Protesters

News by People’s Dispatch, March 18, 2023 At least 23 protesters have been charged with domestic terrorism amid a week of action against the construction of “Cop City” in Atlanta, a proposed $90 million police training complex. Atlanta police detained 35 people and arrested 23 on the night of March 5, they claim, for vandalism against the Cop City construction[…]

Report from New Orleans: Government does nothing for the poor

September 4, 2021 UNAC Editor Poverty, The War at Home, War on the Poor

by John Catalinotto, published on Workers World, September 2, 2021 Sept. 1 — Gavrielle Gemma, union and political organizer since the 1970s and now working with the New Orleans-based Workers Voice Socialist Movement, called Workers World to report on the situation there, post-Hurricane Ida. Gemma is now living in a modest single-family home in the Florida neighborhood of New Orleans,[…]

Biden Breaks His Promises

May 29, 2021 UNAC Editor Poverty, US Politics, War on the Poor

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, May 27, 2021 Black people have nothing to show for a Biden presidency despite turning out in droves to put him in office. “If the Republicans are seen as the only enemy then we have already lost.” Joe Biden has yet to make good on any campaign promise he made to voters.[…]

Life After COVID, As the U.S. Competes with China

April 18, 2021 UNAC Editor China, Poverty, The War at Home

By Eve Ottenberg, published on CounterPunch, April 16, 2021 Who can doubt that if Trump had won reelection, the numbers of people vaccinated against covid would be in the thousands, instead of Biden’s nearly 100 million? Who can doubt that the daily death rate would stand above 3000, as MAGA morons went about their business maskless and as it was[…]

On the Shore Facing a Tidal Wave: Reflections of a Physician

March 28, 2020 UNAC Editor Healthcare, Poverty, Public Health, The War at Home

By George Duncan, MD, published on ML Today, March 24, 2020 This week I joined the first multi-specialty team in our hospital specifically dedicated to patients with COVID-19 infection. The “tidal wave” analogy has now many echoes in the mainstream media. I was saying this too. It will be a “tidal wave.” We can see the “tidal wave” coming in[…]

How the Passive Voice Allowed Flint’s Water Crisis to Persist

June 17, 2019 UNAC Editor Poverty, Racism, The War at Home

by Kitanya Harrison, Published on Zora, June Flint still doesn’t have clean water. This statement has become a rallying cry, from city streets to social media. Yet it’s bothered me ever since I first heard it. Yes, it’s true that Flint’s water remains tainted and unsafe after five years. But the fact that we use the passive tense to talk[…]