Linn Washington Jr

Bold Step: Reparations Movements Make International Connections

Dignitaries from three continents gathered to sharpen their strategies to confront some of the world's most powerful nations.

By: Linn Washington Jr ,; Truthout

April 15, 2015

News Analysis

US Africa Policy Assailed by Africans

London -– Neither overcast sky nor small crowd dampened the passion Duale Yusuf displayed as he denounced the destructive U.S. foreign policy in Somalia during a protest recently outside …

By: Linn Washington Jr ,; ThisCan'tBeHappening

November 12, 2011

News

“Occupy London” Starts Church Row

London - Sam Berkson, widely known in England as “Angry Sam,” the competition-winning performance poet, stood on the steps of London’s historic St. Paul’s Cathedral recently reciting one his …

By: Linn Washington Jr ,; ThisCan'tBeHappening

October 27, 2011

Op-Ed

3rd Circuit Appeal Ruling Favoring Abu-Jamal Smacks Down US Supreme Court

The federal Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, in a stunning smack at the US Supreme Court, has issued a ruling upholding its earlier decision backing a new …

By: Linn Washington Jr ,; ThisCan'tBeHappening

April 28, 2011

News

Mass Incarceration Creates Costly Disaster Across America

Herman Garner doesn’t dispute the drug charge that slammed him in prison for nine years. Garner does dispute the damning circumstance that doing the time for his …

By: Linn Washington Jr ,; ThisCan'tBeHapenning

April 6, 2011

Pennsylvania’s Corbett Expands Conservative War on the Middle Class

Swinging a sledge hammer, Pennsylvania's first-term Republican Governor Tom Corbett, smashed into educational spending and state worker jobs during his first-ever budget address, following in the footsteps of his …

By: Linn Washington Jr ,; Truthout

March 13, 2011

Philadelphia: the Next Big Target for the Right-Wing Assault on Public Employees and Unions

Charlene Scott cheered and chanted with the hundreds thronging Philadelphia’s Love Park during Saturday's protest against conservative Republican onslaughts seeking to slaughter what remains of the living-standard comforts enjoyed …

By: Linn Washington Jr ,; Truthout

March 5, 2011

News Analysis

Philadelphia: The Next Big Target for the Right-Wing Assault on Public Employees and Unions

By: Linn Washington Jr ,; ThisCan'tBeHappening

March 5, 2011

Cities Like Philly Waste Millions Defending Crooked, Racist Cops: “Alley Cat” Ethics and Other Antics

The ethics reforms Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter implemented recently covering most workers in that city’s perennially corruption-plagued government has a curious gap: there is no measure prohibiting retaliation. Could …

By: Linn Washington Jr ,; Truthout

February 11, 2011

Prison Populism? Tea Party Populists Keep the Races Divided for the Benefit of the Rich

The prospect of broadcast agitator Glenn Beck recommending that his audience read a book with ‘Black Power’ in the title might seem less likely than President Obama standing up …

By: Linn Washington Jr ,; Truthout

December 25, 2010

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