Ensaios Imperfeitos (Free subscription) | 02/11/2008
BlackCommentator.com Executive Editor, Bill Fletcher, Jr., is the Executive Editor of BlackCommentator.com, a Senior Scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies, the immediate past president of TransAfrica Forum and co-author of the book, Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice (University of California Press), which examines the crisis...
Palin Campaign 2008 (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
... of labor’s current crisis and a plan for a bold new way forward into the twenty-first century. Bill Fletcher and Fernando Gapasin, two longtime union insiders whose experiences as activists of color grant them a unique vantage on the problems now facing U.S. labor, offer a remarkable mix of vivid history and probing analysis. They chart changes in U.S. manufacturing, examine the onslaught...
Anderson@Large (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
... Some are just retreads from the Clinton administration. Ron’s observations were echoed by Bill Fletcher Jr. who, BTW, is a Harvard grad: It’s up to us to realize our job is to shape Obama and not the other way around. He’s constructing a center-right administration . We’ve got to get organized, shape the discussion, and help the man be who he has to be for this moment. For President-elect...
Firedoglake (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
... a movement? Personality, policy or a perfect storm? Today on GRITtv MATT TAIBBI, BENNETT ZIER, and BILL FLETCHER Jr. on how Obama won.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 16/11/2008
... Clint Reilly; Asian Week Editor, Ted Fang; contractor Larry Nibbi; Black Commentator Editor, Bill Fletcher; Names Project founder, Cleve Jones; Jane Morrison, SF Democratic Party; Cal Winslow, Fellow, Environmental Politics, UC Berkeley; Rick Jacobs, COURAGE CAMPAIGN Chair; Former SF Fire Commissioner Angelo Quaranta; political consultants, Eric Jaye, and Don SolemLarry GriffinWarren...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 16/11/2008
... Clint Reilly; Asian Week Editor, Ted Fang; contractor Larry Nibbi; Black Commentator Editor, Bill Fletcher; Names Project founder, Cleve Jones; Jane Morrison, SF Democratic Party; Cal Winslow, Fellow, Environmental Politics, UC Berkeley; Rick Jacobs, COURAGE CAMPAIGN Chair; Former SF Fire Commissioner Angelo Quaranta; political consultants, Eric Jaye, and Don Solem and Larry Griffin,...
Progressives for Obama (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
President-Elect Obama: History, Challenges and Possibilities By Bill Fletcher, Jr. BlackCommentator.com I found myself facing a peculiar choice. Because I was taking Election Day off to do election work, I could have submitted an absentee ballot. In fact, that would probably have been the most logical thing to do. It would have saved me a lot of time. I kept procrastinating in filing...
Burning Cane (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
Bill Fletcher Executive Editor Black Commentatot I found myself facing a peculiar choice. Because I was taking Election Day off to do election work, I could have submitted an absentee ballot. In fact, that would probably have been the most logical thing to do. It would have saved me a lot of time. I kept procrastinating in filing for such a ballot until it was too late. On Election Day...
Bosses blog (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Highlights from this issue FEATURES: - Bill Fletcher Jr. looks at the complex meaning of Obama’s victory - Ernest Wamba dia Wamba talks to Firoze Manji on the forces behind the violence in the Congo COMMENTS & ANALYSIS: - Beth Tuckey on the hopes of an Obama presidency in relation to Africa - Jacques Depelchin looks at Lumumba and the liberation politics of the Congo today - Stephen Lewis...
uprisingradio.org (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Our weekly edition is a nationally syndicated one-hour digest of the best of our daily coverage. Audio Stream | Podcast | Mp3 Download This week on Uprising: A Special Look at the Obama Victory * Reaction from Grant Park, Chicago to Obama’s Win * Chomsky on Obama: An Exclusive * Black Perspectives on Obama : Bill Fletcher [...]
uprisingradio.org (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
... to Iraq to hear how Iraqis are responding to the election results. Plus, black perspectives with Bill Fletcher and Maya Rockymoore, and the aftermath of Prop 8.
Progressives for Obama (Free subscription) | 31/10/2008
GOP Swan Song: New Messages, New Threats By Bill Fletcher, Jr . Blackcommnetator.com The 'Joe the Plumber' story has unraveled, yet Senator McCain continues to make reference to what is, in fact, a mythical character. Sure, there is a Joe, but he is not what he described himself to be. This has been exposed. Yet, McCain continues to reference 'Joe the Plumber' as if to lend credibility...
New Zeal (Free subscription) | 31/10/2008
... Eric DysonIn fact, many of the participants were actual co-founders of the BRC included Alkalimat, Bill Fletcher Jr (DSA), Manning Marable (DSA/COC), Cornel West (DSA), and Ahmed Obafemi (chairman, National Committe to Defend the New Afrikan Freedom Fighters - see next paragraph). Groups that helped to found the BRC included the New Afrikan People's Organization (NAPO), Black Workers...
Burning Cane (Free subscription) | 24/10/2008
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. October 23, 2008 - Issue 296, BlackCommentator.com The 'Joe the Plumber' story has unraveled, yet Senator McCain continues to make reference to what is, in fact, a mythical character. Sure, there is a Joe, but he is not what he described himself to be. This has been exposed. Yet, McCain continues to reference 'Joe the Plumber' as if to lend credibility to his story....
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 20/10/2008
Mahoney media firm at center of political attacksBy BRIAN SKOLOFFWEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- The media firm that handled campaign advertising for a Florida congressman embroiled in an adultery scandal says Republican attacks attempting to link the company to wrongdoing are making some clients nervous and could hurt business.The company, Nashville, Tenn.-based Fletcher Rowley Chao Riddle Inc., resigned...
