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Beating back the right, fight by fight

“There is a road that runs through our humanity,” Raphael Warnock says, “that is larger than politics, bigger than partisan bickering, certainly bigger than race, bigger than geographical differences … Our job is to build out that road!”

Indigenous peoples in action on five continents! And more news and analysis from all over

If we want real change, we need to return to the grassroots work of popular education. Transformation only happens if the popular sectors organize and mobilize to go beyond this system that generates poverty, misery, hunger, inequality.

Liberation theology is still alive in Brazil, but it has lost a lot of ground. We must learn from past mistakes and create socialist popular democratic spaces from the base that challenge the brutal inequality of the capitalist pyramid.

From the outset of his papacy, Francis sought to alter the landscape by vocalizing how capitalism is the primary cause of social injustice. In doing so he became a marked man. We’re witnessing one site in the larger struggle for cultural terrain.

Injustice in Knoxville - Anti-war trio took part in plowshares action in 2012 at the Y-12 Highly-Enriched Uranium Manufacturing nuclear weapons production facility. An 84-year old nun and two others were just sentenced to up to five years in jail.

John and Bonnie Raines played an active role in the Media action that uncovered the FBI Cointelpro files. That they were willing to take this risk even with their responsibilities as parents of three young children is very moving, very inspiring. They were clearly about a much higher responsibility to their children, the responsibility of providing an example of someone who is willing to take reasonable risks for justice, peace and the common good.