In this Dec. 4, 1969 file photo, Chicago police remove the body of Fred Hampton, leader of the Illinois Black Panther party, who was slain in a gun battle with police on Chicago's west side. The U.S. Justice Department on Friday, Jan. 13, 2017, is scheduled to release the findings of an investigation of the Chicago Police Department, and a law enforcement official says the report will show a pattern of civil rights violations. The probe was launched after a video showed a white officer fatally shooting a black teenager 16 times. (Chicago Daily News courtesy of Chicago Sun-Times via AP) ORG XMIT: ILCHS201
Almost six decades ago in Chicago, during the rise of the Black Panther Party, Flint Taylor, a white, twenty-something law student, helped start the People’s Law Office. Like Flint, the People’s Law Office has been around ever since, defending people excluded from the political power grid against systemic discrimination and racist abuse. One of the Read more
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Nick Tilsen has been under indictment for six of the eight years that his organization has existed. The founder and CEO of NDN Collective, a Rapid City-based organization dedicated to building Indigenous power, Tilsen explains it this way: “They’re threatened. They’re not used to Indian people being able to fight back in their systems,” referring most recently to his time in a South Dakota courtroom earlier this year.
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As Trump’s approval plummets, besieged by the fiasco in Iran and his bizarre attempts to deify himself, instead of reassuring the nation, he’s threatening to throw away more taxpayer money on another senseless war. Speaking at a meeting of the extreme right Christian nationalist organization, Turning Point USA, in Phoenix on April 17, Trump spewed […]
On June 28, 2025, locals from Dallas-Fort Worth met for a potluck dinner at a community garden, a garden that allows residents to partake in the seasonal harvests no matter how they’re able to contribute. Around a bonfire, participants lamented about the No Kings Day marches held two weeks prior; the event in Dallas-Fort Worth Read more
In this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt speaks with Dr. Nadine Ortega, co-founder of Tagnawa Hawai’i, about grassroots mutual aid disaster recovery. Dr. Ortega breaks down the socio-economic and historical conditions that have led to the recent Kona Low flooding on O’ahu and the 2023 Lahaina, Maui fires, which have disproportionately affected Native Hawaiian, Filipino, and other immigrant communities. She shares stories about the importance of cross-class and interethnic organizing when state-run disaster response fails.
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In this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt speaks with Dr. Nadine Ortega, co-founder of Tagnawa Hawai’i, about grassroots mutual aid disaster recovery. Dr. Ortega breaks down the socio-economic and historical conditions that have led to the recent Kona Low flooding on O’ahu and the 2023 Lahaina, Maui fires, which have disproportionately affected Native Read more
Journalist Arun Gupta returns to CounterPunch Radio to discuss the state of the left, antiwar politics, and much more. Arun talks to host Eric Draitser and provides his analysis of the No Kings movement and how leftists should understand it, as well as a retrospective of the antiwar movements around Iraq and Vietnam. He explores Read more
On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank sit down with Gilbert Achcar to discuss Israel, Palestine, Iran, Lebanon, and the most botched US war ever. Gilbert Achcar is Emeritus Professor at SOAS, University of London. He is the author of many books, most recently, The Gaza Catastrophe: The Genocide in World-Historical Read more
On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, host Tori Tsui talks to Sean Adams, founder of Drowned in Sound. Tori and Sean talk about Spotify, AI, militarism, capitalism, independent music, how we can harness music’s power for social change, and much more. Founded in 2000 by Sean Adams, the UK-based Drowned in Sound has evolved from Read more
