The following are leaflets we have produced on a variety of topics
The functioning of capitalism, its ceaseless quest for ever-greater profit, the engine of the entire global economy, is at the center of every major problem human society faces today: from wars and violence and ecological destruction to economic crises, poverty …
We live in a time of extreme contradictions. On the one hand, our civilization has eliminated smallpox, brought us cell phones, robotics, and space travel, and boasts immense resources and wealth. On the other hand, we face the worst crises …
Today millions of people across this country have joined together to say “No more violence in our schools.” and “No more violence in our communities.” We are all here because students at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, …
We are right to question the violence of our society, where mass shooting and brutality have become accepted as normal. The system of capitalism values human life and the planet only as resources to be exploited and profited from, creating …
Across the country, landlords and developers are seizing every opportunity to raise rents, kick out workers and the poor, and bring in families able to pay skyrocketing prices for housing. Housing is becoming a luxury that only the rich can …
It’s been a year since the election of Trump and it couldn’t be any clearer that this is an administration that only represents the richest of the rich. For those workers who may have thought that he would fight in …
With the Trump administration in the White House, many are wishing that Clinton had been elected. Now, attempting to rebuild its credibility, the Democratic Party has mobilized its forces through various social justice and environmental organizations and coalitions in order …
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe. —John Muir We humans are nature itself, woven into the environment, linked to all that is around us by a million …
Global Warming and Global Climate Change Is Global Warming Real? Yes it’s real. There is no question that the overall temperature of our Earth has increased over the past 50 years and continues to increase each year. The world has …
We are all linked with people who could be activists or organizers. Each of those people are concerned about the political situation and are looking for ways to respond. But they need help in organizing and linking to others who …
Today we are living in a world with unprecedented levels of inequality. The richest eight billionaires have the same wealth as the bottom half of the world’s population – that is, eight men have the combined wealth of 3,600,000,000 human …
Many immigrants are nervous about immigration policies under the Trump administration. Trump has proposed cutting off funding to sanctuary cities, building a wall the length of the border, stepping up immigration raids, and banning immigrants from six countries. The fear …
The first weeks of the Trump administration have laid bare the hate-filled agenda they plan to carry out. This administration has already openly attacked immigrants, Muslims, women, LGBTQ people, threatened to accelerate environmental destruction, to support corporations and banks while …
Trump has bragged about sexually assaulting women, claiming that he can do anything he wants. Unfortunately the attitudes that guide his self-centered approach to the world are prevalent in this society. We are right to fear that this new administration …
We Should Expect the Worst A Trump Presidency is upon us. And we should expect nothing less than the worst from this administration. Trump ran a campaign of open racism and nationalism and sexism, promising attacks on immigrants, Muslims, women, …
Many people are in shock that a racist, anti-immigrant, anti-woman, anti-Muslim bigot who thinks global warming is a hoax and that torture is OK, will soon be the President of the U.S. Trump pretended to be an outsider – a …
The functioning of capitalism, its ceaseless quest for ever-greater profit, the engine of the entire global economy, is at the center of every major problem human society faces today: from wars and violence and ecological decay to economic crises and …
We are living in a world that is overwhelmed with crises. We live in a world threatened by mass extinctions brought on by ecological destruction. We live in a world permanently at war, fueled by the need of corporations and …
The Economic and Social Crisis in Front Of Us The 2016 Presidential election is taking place amid widespread economic, political, and social crises. The average income for the bottom 90% is $31,000, and the average income for the top one …
For most of human history, daily issues of society were settled by people themselves, in their communities. There weren’t always police on every street corner with the power to stop, search, and harass people in the name of the law. …
The US has the largest prison population in the world. With five percent of the world’s population, it has 25 percent of the world’s prisoners, half a million more than China, which has five times the population. There are about …
Imagine If… Today we know that the world is divided into the one percent and the 99 percent. While most people are struggling to survive, a small portion of the population is living in luxury. It doesn’t have to be …
There have been five major extinction events on earth where most of the larger plant and animal species were wiped out. The last extinction killed the dinosaurs. An asteroid crashing into earth and drastically changing the climate caused that extinction. …
We live in a society based on divisions. The main division, which is hardly ever discussed, is the division between those who control the wealth and productive forces of society, and those who do the work. Those in control of …
But Don’t Have Half the Power or Half the Wealth The claim that the division between the sexes today is natural, or has always been this way, is not true. For most of human existence humans lived in small groups, …
Almost everyone who is involved in education knows that it isn’t working the way it should be. School days can be spent racing from class to class with no time to think. Many just wait for the day to end. …
We live in a world ravaged by endless war. The estimated death toll from wars in the 20th century is over 187 million, not to mention the millions of people whose lives were left in ruins in the aftermath of …
The school year is beginning. This year is another opportunity to shape the path that your life will take. But as we get ready for the hard work of the school year, we should ask ourselves: what kind of society …
We live in a world threatened by mass extinctions. Carbon emissions and other pollution have heated the planet almost past the point of no return. We live in a world at war. Corporations and banks rake in huge profits, while …
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