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Woodstock: Three Days of Peace and Music

Forty years ago this August, an estimated 3-500,000 people gathered in New York State for the Woodstock Music Festival. Dubbed as the biggest rock concert of its time, Woodstock showcased the best performers of “rock, folk, and progressive popular music” of the sixties. Furthermore, it came to symbolize 60’s hippie culture of “sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll.” …

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Grin Without a Cat

French film maker Chris Marker is best known in mainstream audiences for his dystopian sci fi film La Jetee, on which the Hollywood movie 12 Monkeys is based. But activists on the left also know him for his epic political documentary essay about the rise and fall of the new left: Grin Without a Cat, which Marker made in …

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The Century of the Self

Fewer jobs were lost in May compared to previous months according to new labor data. While many mainstream economists are declaring that the economy looks like it may begin recovering by next year, the underlying capitalist and consumerist basis of recession is still not being questioned. The largest share of the US economy is based on consumer spending, and during …

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Food Fight: The Revolution Never Tasted So Good

The on-going global food crisis and the obesity epidemic in countries like the US are perversely linked: they are both symptoms of an industrial food system that causes scarcity in poor nations, and a glut of unhealthy foods in wealthy nations. This hypothesis has increasingly been offered by analysts and writers like Raj Patel author of …

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The Fort Dix Stockade Rebellion

Back in the day on June 5th, 1969, the Fort Dix Stockade Rebellion occurred in New Jersey. Exactly forty years ago, more than one hundred imprisoned soldiers rose up against deplorable and inhumane conditions on the base. An important event in the history of the GI Resisters Movement during the Vietnam War, …

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A young Palestinian man was shot at by Israeli troops yesterday. The incident was part of a series of intensive gunfire rounds into Palestinian farms by Israeli soldiers stationed near the Northern Gaza border. Earlier yesterday, six Palestinians were injured when Israeli forces invaded deep into Gaza from the North. The region has been wracked by intermittent violence, most of it incited by Israel, …

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Arthur League and the Black Panthers in OC

Back in the day on June 4th, 1969, Santa Ana police officer Nelson Sasscer was shot while on duty and eventually died as a result. The shooting, which took place exactly forty years ago, resulted in the arrest of Black Panther Party member Michael Lynem the very next day. …

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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Afghanistan War But Were Afraid to Ask

An unnamed Defense Department official told the Associated Press that errors were made in bombing raids on Afghanistan in May, leading to civilian casualties. Newly rewritten rules on bombing raids were not followed, according to the official, in the first admission that the US made mistakes in the air strike …

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The Iron Range Strike

Back in the day on June 3rd, 1916 the Iron Range Strike in Minnesota gained momentum when forty miners walked off the job. The largely unorganized European immigrant workers in the iron-rich mines of Mesabi were tired of the poor wages and long hours offered by employers like the Oliver Iron Mining Company. …

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What a GM Bankruptcy Will Mean for the Economy

The nation’s largest auto company General Motors has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and a majority government ownership. Under the complex deal the public will get a 60% share in the company for $50 billion. The Obama administration negotiated the deal with GM, as well as its creditors and the United Auto Workers. GM …

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