Toward a Future Coalition: the Green Growth Alliance

By Van Jones
as appears in The Nation
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081117/jones
My background is in the struggles for racial justice and criminal justice reform. As such, I’ve always felt an affinity for Cinque, the hero of the slave-revolt movie Amistad. In that film, based on a true story, the righteous, enslaved Africans fight back and take over the slave ship.
The people [...]

The Corporations over the People? ACLUSA endorses Obama

The financial crisis that has fallen onto the heads of the American people in recent weeks is one that highlights one of the fundamental problems with the prevailing ideology of our nation since the beginning of the post-World War II period.
Soon after the war, conservatives began to work on an ideological reprogramming of the dominant [...]