Voices for Change

An interview with Norman Solomon, author, activist and cofounder/national coordinator of RootsAction.org.

The best way to celebrate this Mother’s Day is for all of us to commit to fighting to expand Social Security, in memory of those brilliant, hard-driving, creative, and compassionate Mothers of Social Security.

Here's today's predictable nightmare when legislation imprisoned the Special Prosecution role under the Dept. of Justice. Or more accurately, in Trumpian times the slavish Dept. of Injustice and Coverup.

This further illustrates the cruel irony of “justice” under neoliberalism – the jailing of activists, journalists and progressive leaders, as the cover for an implementation of the policies of austerity, and a distraction for the corrupt personal dealings of the ruling political elite.

Bernie’s plan is to Revitalize Rural America. Efforts like these pulled the nation together in a way that we haven’t seen since in decades.

After all, for thousands of years, the indigenous people of the land Detroit now sits on engaged in freely giving what was needed to others. The practice is ancient.

We must be united to take back our democracy.

What connection does the U.S. government or U.S. companies have to the conflict?

We have a lot of wealth per capita. Why can't we share it?

Democracy has been hijacked by "the economy" – twinned with capitalism and the "free market," and corrupted thereby.