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On the two bombers of Syria: Bashar al Assad and Donald Trump

Some possibilities for the future The needs of Syrian people come first The evidence has continued to mount that the Syrian Air Force dropped Sarin gas on Khan Shaykhun in Idlib province in Syria on April 4th, 2017 killing at least 80 people and seriously wounding hundreds.  Evidence includes eyewitness…

History of student movements and activism at The Evergreen State College

(revised and edited version of article in the 2016 Fall Evergreen Disorientation Manual) Important student-led movements in the past Students and student movements have played a major role in struggles for reform and revolution in the United States and around the world. Previous to January 1, 1959, when the July…

There is a way out of here!

Trump, Clinton, Stein and Beyond November 8, 2016 I watched the three presidential debates. Trump’s contempt for women, his anti-choice, anti-Mexican and anti-Muslim immigrant stance, his stereotyping of Black and Latinxs, his proposed tax cuts for the wealthy and the corporations are disgusting. His toxic machismo and not so coded…

Let’s welcome Syrians to the U.S.

A look back at this nation’s rejection of Jewish refugees during WW II (The following is an edited version of a talk at a forum held at The Evergreen State College—After Paris: Responding to Islamophobia and the Refugee Crisis—given by Peter Bohmer on December 2, 2015) First, a little about…

The Greek Crisis          

There must be some way out of here! The following is an edited version of a  speech presented at a forum organized by KAOS Radio and Economics for Everyone in Olympia, Washington on October 20, 2015. I was reminded how important what is going on in is Greece when a…

Remembering 1975

April 30, 2015, was the 40th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, the Vietnamese victory and the United States defeat. This was a victory not only for Vietnam but also for people all over the world who believe in self-determination and opposition to U.S. economic and political domination.…

Obituary: Venezuelan President Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías, 1954-2013

  Hugo Chávez had been dealing with serious bouts of cancer and received many treatments in Cuba. He returned in late February, 2013 to Venezuela where his condition worsened and he died Tuesday afternoon, March 5, 2013 in Caracas of a heart attack. It is a tragic loss for the…

Peter Bohmer’s statement on his arrest at the OMJP homeless shelter

On Tuesday evening March 5, 2013, seven of us were arrested for trespassing in the parking lot of the abandoned Washington State Fish and Wildlife Building on Washington Street, near the Farmer’s Market in downtown Olympia. In addition I was arrested on the charge of assault for allegedly assaulting State…

Celebrating the anniversary of Occupy, but not the war against Afghanistan

[Speech] Peter Bohmer Ed. note: The following is a speech given by Peter Bohmer on October 7 at the Localization not Globalization event held in Sylvester Park in downtown Olympia. The wars I remember  one year ago being at Sylvester Park on a Friday evening, October 7, 2011.  It was…

The Occupy Movement in the United States

Revealing the failure of 21st Century US capitalism and stepping towards Participatory Socialism Ed. note: The following article is the text of a talk Peter presented in Havana, Cuba in June 2012. The Occupy movement in the United States is part of a global upsurge that began in Tunisia in late…