Chicago like many other big U.S. cities is increasingly marginalizing and pushing out working class and people of color. Sweetheart deals put millions of taxpayer dollars in the pockets of wealthy developers building luxury projects for other well-off and downright …
A City Just for the 1%? Read more »
Stephen Durham, presidential candidate of the Freedom Socialist Party, and the Gay Liberation Network’s Bob Schwartz discuss LGBT people, the Chicago teachers’ strike and the 2012 elections. Durham is a unionist, openly gay, and a socialist feminist. They discuss why …
LGBT People, the Teachers’ Strike, & the 2012 Elections Read more »
While left activists have mobilized to protest the Republican National Convention in Florida, most left organizations have gone out of their way to avoid directly opposing the Democrats when they meet at their convention in North Carolina. Whether it’s escalating …
Opposing the Conventions of the 1% Read more »
Openly bigoted Republicans have frequently used anti-gay hate as a “wedge issue” in election after election. Now the Democrats are using LGBT equal rights as a political football – cynically promising things to their LGBT core voters while doing nothing …
Gay Marriage: More Broken Promises, More Money For the Democrats Read more »
Laurel Lambert-Schmidt, former Green Party congressional candidate for Illinois’s 3rd District, discusses the forthcoming 10th anniversaries of 9-11 and the Afghanistan War with Gay Liberation Network co-founder Andy Thayer. Watch as they discuss how the Obama administration has steadily escalated …
Protesting the 10th Anniversary of the War in Afghanistan Read more »
The Gay Liberation Network’s Brent Holman-Gomez and Andy Thayer discuss how the Democrats got the drubbing they richly deserved. In betraying their promises of “change” to their supporters in the Black, Latino, LGBT, and anti-war activist communities, they got walloped …
The 2010 Drubbing of the Democrats Read more »
For three decades, national gay rights groups have acted as little better than wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Democratic Party, and have gotten precious little in return. In fact, Bill Clinton ran ads on Christian right radio stations bragging about signing …
Declaring Independence from the Democrats (& Republicans) Read more »