‘Commentary’ Archives
Democracy Defense Networks Loom
from the series Raise Your Voice!... By PETER MOLENAAR Peter Molenaar To begin once again on a personal note: subsequent to his having a stroke, the writer here continues to reconnect a broken brain to a broken body, a body broken by 35 years of heavy labor at Smith Foundry, an enterprise which famously polluted the lungs of children (now totally absent from the zone near Cedar Ave. and 28th Street). Which is to say: he will continue to march with the masses, with a cane in hand, but the rapid-response mode is not in his future. Even so, he took part in a UNIDOS assembly held at El Colegio (4137 Bloomington Ave.) where, in keeping with the rapid-response networks that engaged the ICE occupation, democracy-defense networks were envisioned. Naturally, our polling places will be defended, while a list of triggering possibilities is pondered, such as: cancellation of mid-term elections, or perhaps another violent episode of election result denial. PETER MOLENAAR [...]
ICE, Klan – Domestic Terrorism
By DWIGHT HOBBES Dwight Hobbes Between masked ICE agents and the Klu Klux Klan, any difference is negligible, if at all, cowardly domestic terrorists hiding from sight in broad daylight. Anonymity is a powerful weapon, license to strike, ruthlessly abuse and violently oppress, sans accountability. Strikes mind numbing panic, blood racing fear.Make no mistake, just as Mississippi KKK murdered James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, so ICE did murder Renée Nicole Macklin Good and Alex Pretti. In cold blood. Because, they could get away with it. President Donald Trump has accomplished the unthinkable. Reversing civil rights, throwing around the term “domestic terrorism” while that’s what he’s unleashed on any and all Americans who don’t further his supremacist agenda. As PBS reported back in 2024, “Trump seeks a second term vowing to dramatically expand his use of the military at home and suggesting he would use force to go after Americans he considers [...]
