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Sunsara Taylor writes for revcom.us and advocates the new communism forged by Bob Avakian. She is a co-initiator of RefuseFascism.org working to drive out the Trump/Pence Regime.
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, October 31, 2009 Why the Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago's Decision to Dis-Invite Me Must Not Stand
Sunsara Taylor protests the Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago's decision to dis-invite her from speaking on Nov.1 on "Morality Without Gods."
The dis-invitation was done out of opposition to Sunsara's communist viewpoints and through dishonest and slanderous methods.
Chris Hedges, Laura Flanders, Mark Crispin Miller, Cindy Sheehan, Rev. Bob Bossie,SCJ & more sent statements protesting this dis-invitation.
(6 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 17, 2012 Are Rape Jokes Ever Funny?
The reason why jokes which belittle or celebrate rape "work" (to those who laugh) is because women are routinely violated, killed, beaten, demeaned, and degraded and this is in contradiction to the thin veil of "equality for women" which has supposedly been won. There IS a contradiction here. But, whether you find it funny to laugh about rape depends on your view of how this contradiction should be resolved.
SHARE Wednesday, June 7, 2006 Center for Disease Control to Women: Prepare to Give Birth!
A recent report by the Centers for Disease Control recommends classifying all women as pre-pregnant--whether they intend to conceive or not. It’s an audacious leap along the logical fault line that values women as mere fetal incubators.
(5 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 17, 2018 Why We MUST Fight Ferociously to Remove the Trump/Pence Regime From Office--A Rebuttal to Vox's Dylan Matthews
Matthews makes a well-argued--but dangerously wrong--case against what he sees as the unfounded and harmful hopes many harbor to see Trump removed from office. He cautions that the best we can hope for and must actively work towards is to muddle through this disastrous presidency. Aiming for more, he says, will stand in the way of stymieing the worst of Trump's agenda. This argument is not only delusional, it is deadly.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 10, 2018 Susan Faludi: It's Time to Cast off Magical Thinking and Prepare for Struggle!
Susan Faludi, a longtime feminist author who has made important contributions to understanding and fighting the oppression of women, wrote a NY Times column in which she imagines a world where nominally pro-choice Republican senators Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski could "halt the whole charade, and alter the course of history, with a press release" and by them switching parties. To this I can only respond: WAKE UP!
(5 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 29, 2018 You Want A World WITHOUT Oppression, Or Just Your Turn On Top? Women Need Revolution--Not Revenge!
In a recent New York Times column, Jennifer Weiner plumbed the depths of her fury at the lifetime of patriarchal insult and injury faced by her and all women. But rather than aim her fury at ending sexual assault, violence against women, and the system that gives rise to it, she plunges into a gruesome, small-minded vision of revenge. Fury alone is not enough--Where SHOULD our fury drive us?
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 12, 2018 Dear Jeremy Scahill: Yes, The Democrats ARE Part of the Problem--So Stop Pretending They Can Be Part of the Solution!
In his podcast, Jeremy Scahill gives damning exposure of the horrific leap the Trump/Pence regime is making in relation to truly sick and vicious treatment of immigrants--now literally tearing infants and children from the arms of their parents. Refreshingly, Scahill gets at something essential: BOTH the major parties of this country are guilty of towering crimes. But then abruptly, Scahill's "reasoning" drops off a cliff.
SHARE Sunday, June 10, 2018 Five Things You Need to Know in Light of the Upcoming Supreme Court Abortion Case
A decision is expected soon from the US Supreme Court on a challenge to a 2015 California law requiring anti-abortion fake clinics (so-called "Crisis Pregnancy Centers") to disclose that they are not medically certified. The law also requires all licensed clinics that provide ultrasounds, pregnancy tests, and birth control advice to post information about affordable abortion and contraception services offered by the state.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, June 29, 2018 An Answer to My Hecklers: Are You Willing to Follow Your Convictions... ALL the Way?
Near the end of my speech at a protest last week, some in the crowd tried to drown me out with cries to "focus on the children" and "vote them out." Apparently they thought my bringing up the need for an actual revolution and even of the need for millions of people from diverse political perspectives to come together to drive out the Trump/Pence fascist regime was not germane to the issue of the children.
SHARE Thursday, May 23, 2019 Will Women Be Regarded as Human Beings Or Incubators?
A vicious wave of extreme anti-abortion legislation is being hammered into law across the US. This assault on abortion is part of a worldwide escalation of misogyny bound up with the resurgence of fascism and religious fanaticism in the face of a rapidly changing world. People need to fiercely protest, struggle against, and truly fight to defeat these monstrous measures that represent a misogynistic assault on the people!
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 6, 2008 On The Nation's Open Letter to Obama:Wishful Thinking and Deadly Self-Deception
Sanitizing Obama's positions is dangerously similar to how the Pentagon refers to civilian deaths as "collateral damage"; it numbs people to reality and makes it easier for them to acquiesce. Particularly painful is that many of the letter signers have a commendable history of insisting people confront the crimes of the government, but the logic of trying to make Obama something he is not had led them away from this principle
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 12, 2012 Who Says Revolution Can't Happen Here?
Powerful video taken from the BAsics Bus Tour which spread the work of Bob Avakian and revolution through the South and culminating in Sanford (where Trayvon was killed). The next leg of this Bus Tour is kicking off in NYC this Saturday! Don't miss the powerful video and your chance to get involved wherever you are.
(6 comments) SHARE Wednesday, May 28, 2014 On the Santa Barbara Mass Killings: How Long Will Women Face Violence and Terror? Until We Make REVOLUTION!
How long must women live with the fear of violence at the hands of men who are trained by society to hate them, to feel entitled to their bodies, to view women not as human but as things who exist to sexually and emotionally service them or bear their children?
Until we make REVOLUTION -- NOTHING LESS!
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, May 26, 2006 Fear and Loathing at Philadelphia's BattleCry
This is the second in a series of columns about the Christian fundamentalist movement BattleCry, which has produced several massive militaristic Christian rock shows across the country this year.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, September 17, 2007 A Regime Still Set On Remaking the World. . . and the Need To Drive It Out
There are many deadly lies and deceptions in America today, but one of the deadliest is that the "Bush Regime is over."
The torture, the wars, the spying and theocratic measures and the toxic waves of bigotry-against Black people today, gays tomorrow, immigrants or women or dissenting professors the day after-isn't "limping to the finish"...it is intensifying. The crimes committed in our name pile up each and every day.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 10, 2007 Nooses at Columbia: Enough is Enough!
A noose was hung at Columbia University, soon the student fascists are planning protests -- time to fight for a whole different future!
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 30, 2008 The Dangerous Logic of Blocking Protests in the Name of Electing Obama
The choice we face is not really between Obama and McCain. Our choice is between accepting the ruling class spectrum of Obama to McCain as the limits of what is possible-or-rejecting this whole framework and instead waging meaningful mass political resistance to the whole fascist direction they are dragging things in.
SHARE Monday, June 5, 2006 Countdown to Democrats' Betrayal … or Mobilize to DRIVE OUT THE BUSH REGIME?
The will of the people will NOT be expressed in the 2006 elections. Listen to what the Democrats themselves are saying. Time for resistance to drive out the Bush regime. Mobilize for nation-wide protest on October 5th! Read more...
SHARE Thursday, December 14, 2006 As American as Shopping and Torture: Street Theater on International Human Rights Day
On the bright Sunday, that was International Human Rights Day, December 10th, tourists and shoppers line up like any other day...Across the sidewalk, a dozen of us crouched beneath black hoods. Bright orange jumpsuits, the trademark uniform of Guantanamo, set us apart from the crowd. Our hands were gripped behind our backs, as if cuffed.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, October 30, 2006 The No-Win Election for Women and the Need for a Real Alternative
What "will of the people" decided that voters should have the "choice" between theocrats who are moving relentlessly to criminalize and culturally demonize birth control and abortion and a Party whose strategy is to change the subject or join in?
SHARE Saturday, September 1, 2007 Back to School During Wartime
As you start college...think about this:
Every Generation Leaves Its Mark on the World-What Will Yours Be?
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 11, 2006 Meet the Shock Troops of the Christian Youth
Battle Cry for Theocracy! If you've been waiting until the Christian fascist movement started filling stadiums with young people and hyping them up to do battle in "God's army" to get alarmed, wait no longer.