The social activist and craftsman Santiago Maldonado was disappeared by government security forces in August during a police raid on a Mapuche indigenous community in the Argentine province of Chubut.
Today, it seems we have not learned the lessons of the “post-truth” election. The anonymity of the internet, combined with a severely impoverished political culture, has created a situation in which the most common form of engagement with contrary opinions is ad hominem attacks and claims of “fake news” and “alternative facts.”
We are living in an Age of War. Yet a look back to the history and political vision of the 224-year-old demand for a US Department of Peace offers alternatives to perpetual war.
It was a rare moment in the health care debate. A Trump supporter, Drea Holbert of Kentucky, was explaining her opposition to Republican health care bills to an NPR reporter when she said this: “Hopefully, they can take a look at what Canada is doing, and even Cuba.”
Alexander Reid Ross, the author of the book Against the Fascist Creep, responds to a review of his book by E.Z. Kay published in Toward Freedom. "Fascism stems from colonial domination and perseveres through the encroachment of capital... To confront fascism, we must also confront intellectual and moral crises in our society," Ross writes.
Thousands gathered in Boise, Idaho last Saturday to voice their support for DACA and protest Trump's plans to end the program. “There are so many injustices currently happening and DACA is not one of them,” Cristina, in attendance at the Boise rally, told Toward Freedom. “DACA students and DACA recipients are not criminals. They are students going to college, trying to be someone in life.”
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