Free People Have A Right To Decide

The State Would Rather Give Me An Uzi Than A Microphone.

If They Survive, Today's Children Will Inherit A World That Our Fathers And Grandfathers Have Ravaged, Where The Seas Are Acidic Cesspools That The Whales Have Fled, Where Rain Forests Are Indian Memories Never To Return, And Where Human Greed Has Plundered Mother Earth's Innards And Turned Human Genes Into Factories For Profit. They Will Inherit A Diminished Planet Where Fresh Water Is Increasingly Rare, And Where Fresh Air Is A Commodity... We Live In A World That Fears And Hates Its Young. How Else Can One Explain The Bequest Of Such A Foul, Polluted, And Hollow Inheritance?

I Think Because I Came Into Journalism By Way Of The Black Panther Party - And Not J-school Or A Corporate Bourgeois Institution - I Tried To Do News, Writing And Reporting That Had Social, Political And Racial Content And Context.

When A Cause Comes Along And You Know In Your Bones That It Is Just, Yet Refuse To Defend It--at That Moment You Begin To Die. And I Have Never Seen So Many Corpses Walking Around Talking About Justice.

The United States Is Fast Becoming One Of The Biggest Open-air Prisons On Earth