The December 2017 tax reform legislation, The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) will cut taxes for the wealthy and corporations and their stockholders, will raise health care premiums, further endanger the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve and the environment, and it will lead to further cuts for flawed but still…
Posts published by “Peter Bohmer”
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…
(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…
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…
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…
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…
At 1:15 a.m. early Thursday, May 21 on the westside of Olympia, Washington, white police officer, Ryan Donald, shot two young black unarmed men, step-brothers, Andre Thompson, aged 24, and Bryson Chaplin, aged 21. These two Olympia residents are in serious condition at nearby hospitals in Tacoma and Seattle. Fortunately,…
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.…
Excerpts from a talk March 5th, 2014 at Forum on Venezuela and the Ukraine at the Evergreen State College. Olympia, Washington. One year ago today on March 5th, 2013, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez died of cancer. It is wrong to attribute all of the changes in Venezuela since 1998 to…
Ed. note: The following is an edited version of a speech given at the Leonare Peltier rally in Tacoma, Washington on May 18, 2013. Leonard is an inspiration for his strength and integrity for over 40 years as a member of the American Indian Movement, as a defender of…
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…
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…
[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…
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…