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Leo Robinson, soul of the longshore
January 29, 2013
Leo Robinson was a Black leader of the longshore union in San Francisco. He died in mid-January. For many of us, he was a lifelong companion, an example of what being an internationalist and a working class activist was all about. When Leo Robinson spoke, he had the full attention of every union member in Local 10’s cavernous waterfront union hall.
Big Brother ‘legal’ in US: Mumia Abu-Jamal interviewed by RT
April 19, 2012
After spending almost 30 years on death row, Abu-Jamal told RT’s Anastasia Churkina: “The truth is I’ve spent most of my living years in my lifetime on death row. So in many ways, even to this day, in my own mind, if not in fact, I’m still on death row.”
I don’t know this America … but I’m most happy to meet it
November 6, 2008
I grew up with the picture on the left. That’s the America that lynched Black soldiers in their uniforms after World War II. It’s the America I was taught. It’s the America unfortunately I’ve lived through. It’s the America that killed the Dreamer. But on Nov. 4, 2008, I was most happy to actually meet the America that chose to make the picture on the right its new dawn. I don’t know this America. I didn’t think it was possible.