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Patrick Walker is co-founder of Revolt Against Plutocracy (RAP) and the Bernie or Bust movement it spawned. Before that, he cut his activist teeth with the anti-fracking and Occupy Scranton PA movements. No longer with RAP, he wields his pen and his activist network to wage holy war for climate justice. Hoping to help build a counterculture of revolt, he also writes quirky, highly literate song lyrics for the rising indie band God's Comics. A happily married man for over 10 years, Patrick has lost his beloved wife Ginger to colon cancer. He resides with his ineffably charming Sheltie dog Jasmine in East Amherst, NY.
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Sunday, August 16, 2020
Strategically Voting Evil SHARE
I'm submitting this as an important contribution to the passionate debate here at OEN on the merits of lesser-evil (LOTE) voting. With leftist and Green credentials as good as anybody's, retired math professor and "full-time political activist and radical educator" (quoted from his Greanville Post bio), Eric Schechter calmly lays out a solid, well-argued case for Greens voting for Biden in swing states. This case should be even more credible based on its source publication: The Greanville Post is one of very few U.S. (nonspecialist) publications where numerous contributors self-identify as Marxists/communists. No Dembots here!
Strategically Voting Evil SHARE
I'm submitting this as an important contribution to the passionate debate here at OEN on the merits of lesser-evil (LOTE) voting. With leftist and Green credentials as good as anybody's, retired math professor and "full-time political activist and radical educator" (quoted from his Greanville Post bio), Eric Schechter calmly lays out a solid, well-argued case for Greens voting for Biden in swing states. This case should be even more credible based on its source publication: The Greanville Post is one of very few U.S. (nonspecialist) publications where numerous contributors self-identify as Marxists/communists. No Dembots here!
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Friday, May 11, 2018
The Most Important Political Article in Ages SHARE
Every serious, principled progressive knows we have not had a real resistance movement against Trump--meaning an organized resistance to the corrupt political system vomited up Trump as U.S. president. Instead we've only a p*ssy-hatted "McResistance" sponsored by warmongering corporate Democrats and their well-heeled donors: a "resistance" utterly unwilling to tackle meaningful issues.Astute progressives have begun to see the Poor People's Campaign's potential as the long-overdue resistance movement--provided it's truly faithful to fighting Dr. King's "triple evils" of poverty, racism, and militarism as well as the added evil of ecological degradation. This Black Agenda Report piece recognizes the PPC's potential while boldly criticizing the very real weaknesses that could destroy that potential.
The Most Important Political Article in Ages SHARE
Every serious, principled progressive knows we have not had a real resistance movement against Trump--meaning an organized resistance to the corrupt political system vomited up Trump as U.S. president. Instead we've only a p*ssy-hatted "McResistance" sponsored by warmongering corporate Democrats and their well-heeled donors: a "resistance" utterly unwilling to tackle meaningful issues.Astute progressives have begun to see the Poor People's Campaign's potential as the long-overdue resistance movement--provided it's truly faithful to fighting Dr. King's "triple evils" of poverty, racism, and militarism as well as the added evil of ecological degradation. This Black Agenda Report piece recognizes the PPC's potential while boldly criticizing the very real weaknesses that could destroy that potential.
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Monday, January 5, 2015
Standing on the Edge of Next American Revolution SHARE
This article, by an activist and journalist colleague of mine, makes a compelling case for launching a peaceful 21st century replay of the American Revolution. Among other things, it supplies, through lists of justifications supported by thorough documenting links, a forceful argument that our broken political process can no longer cure the grave maladies ailing our lost republic, and that it's time to start using the "R word." I proudly share this timely article with OEN readers.
Standing on the Edge of Next American Revolution SHARE
This article, by an activist and journalist colleague of mine, makes a compelling case for launching a peaceful 21st century replay of the American Revolution. Among other things, it supplies, through lists of justifications supported by thorough documenting links, a forceful argument that our broken political process can no longer cure the grave maladies ailing our lost republic, and that it's time to start using the "R word." I proudly share this timely article with OEN readers.
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Thursday, June 20, 2013
TPP--Perhaps the MOST Important Secret Assault on Our Freedoms SHARE
TPP--PERHAPS THE MOST IMPORTANT SECRET ASSAULT ON OUR FREEDOMS
An immense vote of thanks to Steve Horn for sharing this on my Facebook page. A fascist treaty if ever there was one--hence the need for immense secrecy about its terms--the Transpacific Partnership will legally (under UNJUST law) trump virtually all our legal efforts to defend ourselves and our environment against predation by international corporations. When I first heard about it, I smelled a BIG rat, and I find it definitive proof--if any further was needed--that Obama himself is a HUMUNGOUS rat. No one who supports him deserves to be called a progressive.
TPP--Perhaps the MOST Important Secret Assault on Our Freedoms SHARE
TPP--PERHAPS THE MOST IMPORTANT SECRET ASSAULT ON OUR FREEDOMS
An immense vote of thanks to Steve Horn for sharing this on my Facebook page. A fascist treaty if ever there was one--hence the need for immense secrecy about its terms--the Transpacific Partnership will legally (under UNJUST law) trump virtually all our legal efforts to defend ourselves and our environment against predation by international corporations. When I first heard about it, I smelled a BIG rat, and I find it definitive proof--if any further was needed--that Obama himself is a HUMUNGOUS rat. No one who supports him deserves to be called a progressive.
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Obama In Bed With ALEC--And Penny Pritzker SHARE
Couldn't resist THE joke, though this one's probably on us. I supply a link to the new link about Obama being in bed with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)--an enemy of the common good usually associated with the hard right. But in his I'll-take-the-bottom lackey "favors" to plutocrats, Obama apparently swings both ways. My own notorious--but popular--recent OpEdNews article about the sick Barack-and-Penny tango can be found on OEN as "Barack Obama--and the Sick, Twisted Dynamic of Racism."
Obama In Bed With ALEC--And Penny Pritzker SHARE
Couldn't resist THE joke, though this one's probably on us. I supply a link to the new link about Obama being in bed with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)--an enemy of the common good usually associated with the hard right. But in his I'll-take-the-bottom lackey "favors" to plutocrats, Obama apparently swings both ways. My own notorious--but popular--recent OpEdNews article about the sick Barack-and-Penny tango can be found on OEN as "Barack Obama--and the Sick, Twisted Dynamic of Racism."
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Can True Blue Democrats Do What Other Progressives Won't? SHARE
The first article ever to cover the young but fast-growing True Blue Democrats progressive revolt movement--an article written by journalist Ron Ridenour and introduced and commented on by movement founder Patrick Walker
Can True Blue Democrats Do What Other Progressives Won't? SHARE
The first article ever to cover the young but fast-growing True Blue Democrats progressive revolt movement--an article written by journalist Ron Ridenour and introduced and commented on by movement founder Patrick Walker
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Democrats' Deadly Electoral Disease: "Deep State Bullshit" SHARE
I NEVER expected my previous OEN article, "THIS Changes Everything: Bernie as Dems' New FDR," to parent a whole SERIES. But some brainstorming--fueled by warm reader response--soon evolved a full-blown political strategy. My sunshiny "Bernie as Dems' new FDR" vision was the motivational WHY; the rest of my series is the strategic HOW. Here, I diagnose "what's rotten in Demmark"--the daunting party hurdle Bernie must clear.
Democrats' Deadly Electoral Disease: "Deep State Bullshit" SHARE
I NEVER expected my previous OEN article, "THIS Changes Everything: Bernie as Dems' New FDR," to parent a whole SERIES. But some brainstorming--fueled by warm reader response--soon evolved a full-blown political strategy. My sunshiny "Bernie as Dems' new FDR" vision was the motivational WHY; the rest of my series is the strategic HOW. Here, I diagnose "what's rotten in Demmark"--the daunting party hurdle Bernie must clear.
