Speak Out Now National Newsletter: May 18, 2026
Download .pdf leafletDownload .pdf leaflet (Baltimore, Maryland)Download .pdf leaflet (The Triangle, North Carolina) The Two Men Who Believe They Can Rule the World The recent meeting in China between Trump and China’s president, Xi Jinping, filled the world’s media. Where they met, what they ate, and who traveled with them were covered in detail. It […]
Speak Out Now National Newsletter: May 4, 2026
Download .pdf leafletDownload .pdf leaflet (Baltimore, Maryland)Download .pdf leaflet (The Triangle, North Carolina) Stripping Our Right to Vote – an Attack on All of Us! On April 29, the Supreme Court ransacked the Voting Rights Act, which was won by the Civil Rights Movement decades ago. In a 6-3 ruling, it undermined the section which […]
Speak Out Now National Newsletter: April 20, 2026
Download .pdf leafletDownload .pdf leaflet (Baltimore, Maryland)Download .pdf leaflet (The Triangle, North Carolina) Together, We Must Resist the Warmongers! Despite the dizzying flip-flopping by the Trump-led U.S. government, their war in the Middle East continues and threatens everyone in the world. Negotiations and ceasefires seem to be on again/off again every few days. Israel announced […]
Speak Out Now National Newsletter: April 6, 2025
Download .pdf leafletDownload .pdf leaflet (Bay Area, California)Download .pdf leaflet (Baltimore, Maryland)Download .pdf leaflet (The Triangle, North Carolina) They Wage Endless Wars, We Pay the Price On April 1, the Trump administration posted a video from a White House luncheon, which was quickly taken down, where Trump made his plans loud and clear, saying: “It’s […]
Speak Out Now National Newsletter: December 15, 2025
Download .pdf leafletDownload .pdf leaflet (Baltimore, Maryland)Download .pdf leaflet (The Triangle, North Carolina) Join In the Fight In 2026! The Triangle, North Carolina: U.S. Capitalism Wants Immigrant Labor, but Terrorizes Immigrants While the Trump administration is carrying out brutal immigration raids throughout the country in cities like Charlotte, they are quietly making it easier to […]
Speak Out Now National Newsletter: December 1, 2025
Download .pdf leaflet (Bay Area, California)Download .pdf leaflet (Baltimore, Maryland)Download .pdf leaflet (The Triangle, North Carolina) What We’re Thankful For… At this Thanksgiving time in 2025, in a world filled with attacks on 99 percent of us, it’s easy to overlook the many good things that we actually do have to be thankful for. We […]
Speak Out Now National Newsletter: November 17, 2025
Download .pdf leafletDownload .pdf leaflet (Baltimore, Maryland)Download .pdf leaflet (The Triangle, North Carolina) The U.S. Government is Waging War on Us All! The U.S. government has accelerated its war on the people of the U.S. and is increasing its threats against the people of South America. The government shutdown, like the threat of a military […]
Speak Out Now National Newsletter: November 3, 2025
Download .pdf leaflet (Bay Area, California)Download .pdf leaflet (Baltimore, Maryland)Download .pdf leaflet (The Triangle, North Carolina) Government Shutdown – Certainly Not Our Government! The federal government shutdown began soon after Democrats blocked legislation to continue to fund the government unless Trump and the Republicans agreed to extend subsidies for the Affordable Care Act. Without the […]
Speak Out Now National Newsletter: October 20, 2025
Download .pdf leafletDownload .pdf leaflet (Baltimore, Maryland)Download .pdf leaflet (The Triangle, North Carolina) No More Capitalist Kings—The Future Depends on Us This past weekend, an estimated seven million people took to the streets in 2,700 cities and towns in all 50 U.S. states, D.C., and several U.S. possessions including Puerto Rico calling for “No Kings” […]
Speak Out Now National Newsletter: October 6, 2025
Download .pdf leaflet (Bay Area, California)Download .pdf leaflet (Baltimore, Maryland)Download .pdf leaflet (The Triangle, North Carolina) War Declared on the People of the U.S. Last week, Trump and his Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, brought the top U.S. military officers from around the world together to listen to their plans for the days ahead. Trump […]
Speak Out Now National Newsletter: September 22, 2025
Download .pdf leaflet Download .pdf leaflet (Baltimore, Maryland)Download .pdf leaflet (The Triangle, North Carolina) The Celebration of Kirk – The Goal is to Divide Us The killing of Charlie Kirk, founder and organizer of the right-wing group Turning Point USA, provided the organized right wing with an opportunity to falsely present itself as the protector […]
Speak Out Now National Newsletter: September 8, 2025
Download .pdf leaflet Download .pdf leaflet (Bay Area, California)Download .pdf leaflet (Baltimore, Maryland)Download .pdf leaflet (The Triangle, North Carolina) No Military Occupation of Our Cities! The Trump regime has declared open war on our cities. First it was Los Angeles, with ICE swooping in with heavily armed masked agents to abduct day laborers and people […]
Speak Out Now National Newsletter: August 25, 2025
Download .pdf leaflet Download .pdf leaflet (Baltimore, Maryland)Download .pdf leaflet (The Triangle, North Carolina) Stop the Famine – No Genocide in Our Name! According to the UN and international health organizations, the people of Gaza City are experiencing a severe famine. They report that, by the end of September, more than 640,000 people in Gaza […]
Speak Out Now National Newsletter: July 21, 2025
Download .pdf leaflet Download .pdf leaflet (Baltimore, Maryland)Download .pdf leaflet (The Triangle, North Carolina) Trump’s Cuts = Attacks On Us All! Since Trump took office in January, his regime began its slash and burn policy — attacking many essential government programs. Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) accelerated this, firing thousands of workers without notice. […]
Speak Out Now National Newsletter: July 7, 2025
Download .pdf leaflet Download .pdf leaflet (Baltimore, Maryland)Download .pdf leaflet (The Triangle, North Carolina) The Trump Megabill – An Assault On Us All! The Trump billionaire regime’s recent “megabill” is a cruel and brutal attack on the majority of people in the U.S. It continues the targeting of the most vulnerable in society and the […]
Speak Out Now National Newsletter: June 23, 2025
Download .pdf leaflet Download .pdf leaflet (Baltimore, Maryland)Download .pdf leaflet (The Triangle, North Carolina) Oppose the U.S.-Israel War on Iran! The decision by the Trump administration to order the bombing of Iran is a criminal act of unprovoked violence. This attack makes the prospect of a wider war in the region, and possibly the world, […]
Speak Out Now National Newsletter: June 9, 2025
Download .pdf leaflet Download .pdf leaflet (Bay Area, California)Download .pdf leaflet (Baltimore, Maryland)Download .pdf leaflet (The Triangle, North Carolina) We’re Not Expendable, Their System Is! Trump’s extreme policies and behavior have exposed the system we live in for what it is. He and the billionaires who control the resources and the government benefit from an […]
Speak Out Now National Newsletter: May 12, 2025
Download .pdf leaflet Download .pdf leaflet (Bay Area, California)Download .pdf leaflet (Baltimore, Maryland)Download .pdf leaflet (The Triangle, North Carolina) We Can’t Depend on Them or Their Courts We are facing a reign of chaos. Since starting his second term in office, Trump has passed one executive order after another to implement his policies. When he […]
Speak Out Now National Newsletter: April 28, 2025
Download .pdf leaflet Download .pdf leaflet (Bay Area, California)Download .pdf leaflet (Baltimore, Maryland)Download .pdf leaflet (The Triangle, North Carolina) Celebrate International Workers’ Day! May 1 is May Day, or International Workers’ Day. On May Day, there are demonstrations, rallies, festivals, and gatherings in the vast majority of countries throughout the world. It is a celebration […]
Speak Out Now National Newsletter: April 14, 2025
Download .pdf leaflet Download .pdf leaflet (Baltimore, Maryland)Download .pdf leaflet (The Triangle, North Carolina) Our Earth, Our Lives! Not Their Profits! Trump and the billionaires he represents have stepped up their profiteering rampage. The mounting attacks on environmental regulations and the right of states to apply their own regulations will lead to an acceleration of […]
Speak Out Now National Newsletter: March 31, 2025
Download .pdf leaflet Download .pdf leaflet (Baltimore, Maryland)Download .pdf leaflet (Bay Area, California)Download .pdf leaflet (The Triangle, North Carolina) They Have No Solutions for Us Since Trump became President, the reality of this so-called democracy has been on display for all to see. The Republicans in Congress have bowed to every demand. And the Democrats […]
Speak Out Now National Newsletter: March 18, 2025
Download .pdf leaflet Download .pdf leaflet (Baltimore) An Injury to One is an Injury to All! Since Trump took office, he, his cabinet of billionaires, and Elon Musk have created an overwhelming sense of chaos. Each day, announcements of a new attack on a new group of people or a new agency have crashed over […]
Speak Out Now National Newsletter: March 3, 2025
Download .pdf leaflet Download .pdf leaflet (Baltimore) We Are the Ones We’ve Been Waiting For Week after week, more federal workers are being fired and more federal funding is stripped away from public services by the Trump/Musk regime. And now the “Trump budget” has begun to take shape. Musk’s DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) cut […]
Consumers and Producers
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now newsletter for BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit), a rapid transit rail system in the San Francisco Bay Area Many people are wondering what they can do to oppose what is going on in Washington, D.C. There are small actions across the country. People are demonstrating against […]
Speak Out Now National Newsletter: February 17, 2025
Download .pdf leaflet Download .pdf leaflet (Baltimore) They Can’t Erase Reality In a matter of weeks Trump, Musk and his DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) force, and the new heads of government agencies have been tearing things up in Washington. Who could believe that this band of billionaires is rooting out wasteful spending for our […]
Politics
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) – rapid transit rail system in the San Francisco Bay Area Politics The politics swirling around us can be overwhelming and a reason to duck and cover from it all. But, as the old saying goes, “If you don’t do politics, […]
February Is Black History Month
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) – rapid transit rail system in the San Francisco Bay Area February Is Black History Month In addition to all the changes the Trump administration is trying to impose, they are trying to rewrite history. No Black History Month. No Women’s […]
Speak Out Now National Newsletter: February 3, 2025
Download .pdf leaflet Download .pdf leaflet (Baltimore) These Attacks are Meant to Stop Us. We Can’t Let Them! Announcement after announcement about planned executive orders have been filling up our news feeds in the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second presidential term. From education to healthcare to food access to queer, trans, and immigrant […]
Speak Out Now National Newsletter: December 9, 2024
Download .pdf leaflet Download .pdf leaflet (Baltimore) Trump Cabinet Picks: Bad for Our Health Trump’s latest Cabinet appointments reveal an administration even more determined to prioritize the wealthy and powerful at the expense of working people. His selections for key healthcare roles, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr.) as Secretary of Health and Human Services […]
Speak Out Now National Newsletter: November 18, 2024
Download .pdf leaflet Download .pdf leaflet (Baltimore) An Attack on Immigrant Workers is an Attack on All Workers During the recent U.S. presidential elections, both Harris and Trump focused on immigration as a central issue. Now that Trump has been elected president, he is threatening serious measures: mass deportations, ending automatic citizenship for children of […]
Speak Out Now National Newsletter: October 21, 2024
Download .pdf leaflet (Baltimore)Download .pdf leaflet (Bay Area, California)Download .pdf leaflet (North Carolina) Their Election is Over, Our Future is Up to Us! As of November 4, 2024, people are still casting their votes, and we might not know who officially won the presidential election for weeks. With so much uncertainty, it’s important to look […]
Speak Out Now National Newsletter: October 21, 2024
Download .pdf leaflet (Baltimore)Download .pdf leaflet (Bay Area, California)Download .pdf leaflet (North Carolina) Words Won’t Save Lives, No More Aid to Israel! The situation in Gaza and the Middle East is rapidly deteriorating. Israeli forces are carrying out a relentless military campaign with no signs of stopping. Horrific footage and reports of atrocities flood the […]
Speak Out Now National Newsletter: October 7, 2024
Download .pdf leafletDownload .pdf leaflet (Baltimore)Download .pdf leaflet (California)Download .pdf leaflet (North Carolina) Solidarity with Palestinians and the Oppressed October 7 marks one year since Israel’s escalation of attacks on Palestine, allegedly in response to an attack by Hamas. But this date represents only a small chapter in a much longer history. The October 7, […]
Speak Out Now National Newsletter: September 22, 2024
Download .pdf leafletDownload .pdf leaflet (Baltimore) We Must Oppose This War on the Middle East On Tuesday, September 17, the Israeli government expanded its reign of terror across the broader Middle East in a new wave of attacks on Lebanon. Hundreds of pagers and hand-held radios simultaneously exploded on two successive days in Lebanon, wounding […]
Speak Out Now National Newsletter: September 9, 2024
Download .pdf leafletDownload .pdf leaflet (California)Download .pdf leaflet (Baltimore) End the U.S. Government Support for Israel’s Genocide of Palestinians The U.S. government continues to fund the ongoing genocide against Palestinians – a tragedy that has now escalated into Palestine’s West Bank, leaving behind a trail of devastation, suffering, and the resurgence of polio in the […]
Speak Out Now National Newsletter: August 19, 2024
Download .pdf leaflet We Cannot Count on Harris and the Democrats The Democratic National Convention (DNC) historically is the time when the party’s presidential candidate would be officially selected. But a virtual roll-call has already been done. So the selection of Harris and Walz at the convention is a formality. Keynote speakers include Biden, the […]
Speak Out Now National Newsletter: August 5, 2024
Download .pdf leaflet Nuclear War: An Increasing Threat to the World Seventy-nine years ago, on August 6 and 9, 1945, the first nuclear weapons were dropped on civilian populations. Tens of thousands of lives were incinerated in the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States. Hundreds of thousands suffered and died from […]
Speak Out Now General Newsletter: July 22, 2024
Download .pdf leaflet For a Better Life, Dump the Democrats AND Republicans! The Republican National Convention was decked out in slogans of “Make America Great Again,” “strong again,” and “safe again.” The millionaire and billionaire politicians made speeches that touched on the anger we feel about the overdose epidemic, the housing crisis, on our need […]
Speak Out Now General Newsletter: July 8, 2024
Download .pdf leaflet Billionaires, Not Migrants, are the Source of Our Problems Listening to the Presidential debate, you would think we are at war and the country is facing an invasion that is overwhelming the people of the Untied States. Although the Democrats and Republicans may use different language about immigration, their policies are overwhelmingly […]
May Day: There Is Power in the Working Class
General Newsletter April 28, 2024 Download .pdf leaflet May Day: There Is Power in the Working Class In the 1880s, the United States was deeply unequal and divided. A few families owned the overwhelming bulk of U.S. wealth, and workers had to work up to 16 hours per day. Workers had no rights on the […]
Speak Out Now General Newsletter: March 31, 2024
Download .pdf leaflet Baltimore Bridge Disaster Didn’t Have to Happen At 1:28 a.m. on March 26, a massive cargo ship, known as the Dali, collided with Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge. In seconds most of the structure collapsed, killing six construction workers who were performing pothole repairs on the bridge. Before its collapse, the Key Bridge […]
Speak Out Now General Newsletter: March 17, 2024
Download .pdf leaflet Corporations Report Record Profits by Squeezing Working People Looking at prices for basic necessities can make you want to cry. Since 2019, gas and housing costs are up 21%, a gallon of milk is up 30%, and a dozen eggs is up 97%. This doesn’t include the other necessities like heating, medical […]
SON General Newsletter: March 4, 2024
Download as .pdf leaflet International Women’s Day: Give Us Bread, but Give Us Roses, Too! March 8th is International Women’s Day. This is a day to commemorate the working women who have struggled and fought to better their conditions. Today in the United States, the attacks on abortion and reproductive rights continue. The Alabama Supreme […]