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Tag Archives: Repression
Trumponomics is Class War
by Peter Bohmer, Economics for Everyone, Talk, October 10, 2025, updated for ZNetwork, October 28 2025
Overall, The Trumpist economic agenda is to make even more unequal, the already obscene inequality of income and wealth. Domestically it is a continuation of Republican administration policies, although more extreme. This project is unstable with a real possibility of higher unemployment and higher prices in the coming period, a serious recession. I will conclude with what is to be done.
My focus will be “Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill”, the budget that Passed July 4th, three months ago, officially, OBBBA (one Big Beautiful Bill Act) and secondly, Trump’s tariff policy.
This horrific federal budget will lower taxes for the wealthy and further reduce social programs for working class and poor individuals and families and documented immigrants, with major cuts in health care programs and will substantially increase the spending for the military and on immigration detentions and deportations. … (see link)
Trumponomics is Dangerous to Your Health
Palestine Solidarity and Building a Left Coalition in Olympia
by Peter Bohmer for the November 15th Round Table, Olympia, WA
This is Peter Bohmer representing Palestine Action of South Sound (PASS) and a member of Economics for Everyone (E4E). I will speak to Palestine and global solidarity, anti-repression and political education. I am a long-term organizer for global solidarity, anti-racism and radical transformation towards participatory socialism and a teacher of political economy.
One important recent change that will affect Palestine solidarity organizing is there is now a cease fire in Gaza but no justice or peace. (Note: Israel may go back to total war by November 15th). The murderous Israeli occupation of Gaza and all of Palestine continues although there is a common perception in the U.S. that the war is over. A challenge we face is that there is nothing that can be done to stop the Israeli and U.S war and aggression against the Palestinian people. Mounting an effective campaign for an arms embargo against Israel has been difficult.
Energy in our group, PASS, has declined although we continue into our third year. We have been somewhat effective in educating the Olympia community about Palestine and the Israeli genocide and US complicity by activism that has continued for over two years and raised significant money for Gaza. As part of the national Palestine solidarity movement, we have contributed to changing public opinion to where a significant majority in the U.S. is now opposed to the Israeli war and U.S. support of it. This is an important step although we have had little effect on U.S. policy. ..,
Mourn and Organize
by Peter Bohmer, November 22, 2024
https//znetwork.org/znetarticle/mourn-and-organize/
Trump’s victory is a serious loss for most people in the United States and globally. I disagreed before the election and now, that it didn’t matter who won the Presidential election. Let us mourn and grieve but not give up. Elections matter and this one certainly does but being political means building and gaining power, being active to further what you believe in, much more than voting or supporting a candidate.
I don’t know if any campaign would have caused a Kamala Harris victory. However, her pro-Israel, anti-Palestinian positions, her pro fracking and promoting more oil and gas production by the U.S., and especially her promotion of neoliberal economic policies and not promoting raising the minimum wage, or making unionizing easier or advocating for universal, quality and affordable health care for all was wrong morally and tactically (to win). ..(see link above)
Palestine Can Win!
Expanded version of my talk at May 4th, 2024 demonstration in Olympia in solidarity with Palestine
by Peter Bohmer, May 14th, 2024; member of Palestine Action of South Sound
I am reminded in May, 2024 of the global movement of 1968. The US war against Vietnam was raging. There were powerful movements across the globe calling for immediate withdrawal of the US from Vietnam and in many cases in solidarity with the National Liberation Front (NLF) and the North Vietnam Army fighting against the US and the South Vietnamese Army.
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, April 4, 1968. There were major uprisings in many cities following his assassination, mainly in Black communities. Social movements increasingly linked the Vietnam War and US imperialism to racial and other oppressions in the U.S. It is important for us to do that now.
1968 was the year of the Columbia University student occupation that demanded the end of the university’s complicity with the Vietnam war and that Columbia not buy up land in Harlem to build a gym for Columbia University, displacing residents. Black students did a simultaneous occupation. There was serious repression at Columbia; 700 were arrested and many more were beaten by the New York Police Department. There was a subsequent occupation there, later in the spring of 1968. The repression furthered resistance at Columbia and beyond and increased the popularity of this movement among students. …
Reform and Revolution: Talk and Video at the George Jackson Freedom Coalition, October 2, 2020
Talk Prepared for Black August Event! August 29, 2020
Raise the Social Cost: An Important Strategic Concept; No Justice, No Peace!
Film-Screening of “No God, No Master”– Benefit for Grand Jury Resisters, Sunday, December 9th, 7:30
PETER BOHMER AND THE OLYMPIA FILM SOCIETY ANNOUNCE:
A Benefit Screening of Anarchist History, Film Festival Hit “No God, No Master”
To Support the Imprisoned Olympia Grand Jury Resistors: Katherine “KteeO” Olejnik and Matt Duran.
With Director Terry Green doing a Q and A via skype moderated by T.E.S.C. Faculty: Peter Bohmer
Sunday December 9th, 2012, screening at 7:30 on beautiful 35mm! at the Historic Capitol Theater, home of the Olympia Film Society: 206 5th AVE. SE in Downtown Olympia, WA. Admission: Suggested Donation $5-15
“No God, No Master” film Sunday 7:30 P.M. , Sunday, December 9th, at Olympia Film Society
Talk on Grand Jury Repression: September 7th, 2012
We are living in a period of increased surveillance, especially electronic, and the use of police at the local, State, and national level to limit protest and resistance to an economic and social system that is broken and needs to be revolutionized, transformed. … Grand Juries, especially Federal Grand Juries, have been continually used as tools of political repression and increasingly to jail those who refuse to cooperate with government investigations of radical movements. … The most recent case and the focus of tonight’s meeting is the Federal Grand Jury that convened in Seattle in July, 2012. This Grand Jury is investigating the May Day demonstration in Seattle on May 1st of this year.
My Talk on Grand Jury Repression, September 7, 2012 at Traditions Cafe, Olympia, WA