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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Whatever It Takes
it is a warm spring afternoonin the politically drunk 1950sin the little Virginia mill townstuck like a birdโs nestin the fork that splitsthe James and Appomattox riversboth rivers slapping their mouthstogether in a rough wet kisschurning and swirling the tidearound the high banks of City Pointinheriting their tidal swoon and swayfrom the inland Chesapeake Baythe …
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From the Archives
In the Eye of the Storm: A Report from Kenosha
What’s so simple in the moonlight by the morning never is. ย -Bright Eyes The night of the shooting, bands of armed white men dotted the landscape before we even arrived in Kenosha. Police roadblocks along I-94 barred easy access to the small Wisconsin city and forced us off the highway early, to hack it through …
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Lessons from Rosemarie: My 25 years in Brooklyn
โKeep going down Atlantic, then hang a left at Bedford,โ advised the lot attendant, a white guy in his 60s, as my pal Patrick and I dropped off a U-Haul truck at the corner of Flatbush and Atlantic. โBut be careful, Fellas. Youโll be driving through Godโs country.โ It was a white guyโs way of …
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