Eric Kingโs Ethics of Revolt
โThese jellyfish deserve no respect,โ writes Eric King, โand you wonโt give them any. You know they will hold you down seven-on-one and have a party while they beat you up. You know that your possessions will be destroyed. That your skin will be burned, that your body will be broken. It doesnโt matter at …
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Truths and Conspiracies
I confess that when I read a couple of analyses of the shooting at the White House Correspondentsโ Dinner that claimed it was a setup by Trump that I was tempted. I re-posted one account on my Facebook page. The coincidencesโthe lack of security in the hotel, the decision to withhold the name of the …
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Kneecap: The North of Ireland’s New Radical Voices
Disclaimer: This article talks about Northern Ireland (NI), the movie Kneecap, and the hip-hop group of the same name. I am an American who lived in Belfast for a short time and researched NI but I am not an expert or scholar. Kneecap, the hip-hop group from Belfast, Northern Ireland (NI),[1] are engaging in the …
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The Delivery Man
The unremarkable office, home to two ancient wooden desks, collapsing file cabinet and ever-present aroma of oil emanating from the uniforms worn by Glenn Ray and his two employees, looked out over two weathered fuel delivery trucks parked in the gravel parking lot. Each one, rusty red and blue, covered in dust and grime, carried …
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Three Poems
Brown Fields One by one by one, they take The hollow factories down. It gives The sons of sons of sons Of workers work to do. They donโt Just blast or bash the buildings all to pieces: The job is difficult and careful. First, the guts come out, and then The skin comes off, sheet-metal …
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Call for submissions
Weโre looking for stories that cut through the noise โ from people living the contradictions of this moment: layoffs and rent hikes, ICE raids and border patrol crackdowns, automation, strikes and small acts of defiance, survival and solidarity. If youโve seen or lived something that speaks to how working-class people make sense of these times, …
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From the Archives
Mask down, fists up: a day at work in the library
Like most workers, I donโt wake up in the morning thinking Iโm going to get swung at while at my job. Iโm a librarian, not a professional boxer or an MMA fighter. But on a Monday afternoon in August, in this glorious year 2020, thatโs just what happened. I asked a library visitor to pull …
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Iowa Bluffs
“Indeed, we are all implicated in Iowa.”ย ย โHeather Anne Swanson, โThe Banality of the Anthropoceneโ Crossing the Mississippi River from Illinois into Iowa by car is an almost effortless glide, eliding entirely the forceful pull of the Great River and the centuries of violence greater still that harnessed its bucking current into an engine of …
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