Margaret Flowers

Margaret Flowers is a pediatrician, advocate for single payer health care and justice. She co-directs Popular Resistance and co-hosts Clearing the FOG.

Message To Democratic Party: It’s Time To Face Reality

After getting clobbered on Nov. 4, the Democratic Party needs to ask itself some tough questions and come up with honest answers. If it doesn’t, it’s going to continue to lose elections because it lacks credibility with its own voter base.

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Margaret Flowers
By Kevin Zeese
And Margaret Flowers
Anthony Brown

The 2014 election was a disaster for Democrats. Any Democratic partisan who tries to explain it away is doing a disservice to their party. When the Maryland’s Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown loses to an unknown Republican in a state where the Democrats have a 2-to-1 registration advantage, the Democratic Party better look in the mirror and ask: Why didn’t

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Analysis: Vets Win Expansion Of Freedom Of Speech And Right To Assemble

A campaign by Veterans for Peace prompts New York to lift the “curfew” at the city’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial, where veterans and others gather on the anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan to honor the dead and protest wars both past and present.

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Margaret Flowers
By Kevin Zeese
And Margaret Flowers
With millions being cut from food stamp programs, veterans will be hardest hit. (Photo Norbert Schiller/Mint Press)

Each Oct. 7 for the past three years, on the anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, members of Veterans For Peace and their allies have gathered at the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial in Lower Manhattan for a soulful ceremony. Their purpose: to mark another year of the war in Afghanistan and call for peace, to honor all whose lives are

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Hong Kong: Now The Hard Part, Kick US Out, Build National Consensus

When protests in Hong Kong exploded, knowledgeable people looked for US involvement. It was not hard to find.

Kevin Zeese
Margaret Flowers
By Kevin Zeese
And Margaret Flowers

When protests in Hong Kong exploded, knowledgeable people looked for US involvement. It was not hard to find. The overt intrusion of the US is available in budgets, documents and websites; the covert involvement has not yet been uncovered but is no doubt there.  What does US involvement mean for the credibility of the protest movement and the

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With The People’s Climate March Behind Us, What Do We Do Now?

The climate crisis is an opportunity to think boldly and reshape our world so it is better than what we have now. Our path to travel — in solidarity, refusing to leave anyone behind — involves a “movement of movements” that can’t be ignored.

Kevin Zeese
Margaret Flowers
By Kevin Zeese
And Margaret Flowers
Climate March

The climate action weekend built around the People’s Climate March proved that the climate movement has broad popular support and millions are ready to mobilize. These are two ingredients necessary to achieve climate justice, but also needed is a strategy that is widely understood so people recognize their work is connected to a larger movement and

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