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The Revolutionary Moment
What brings the revolutionary moment? I am not referring to the political struggle that takes place within every mass movementโunions or workersโ councils, soviets or provisional government, abolition or free-soil, black power or civil rights, etc.โbut ...
Bookstore adventures
From 1992 to 1998 I worked at a large independent bookstore. Mostly I worked in the store room. They started me on paperback literature which was a mess. My task was to alphabetize and stack the ...
Some Reflections on Prison Labor
Ruth Wilson Gilmore: A popular notion in some progressive circles holds that US prisons are a chain of sweatshops and plantations where hundreds of thousands of incarcerated people labor under excruciating conditions to generate profits for ...
At The Pain Clinic, North Alabama
I’m in Boaz, Sand Mountain, with a friend going to the local pain clinic. The waiting room is filled with middle-aged, rural/small-town, working-class whites who generally look in poor health. A crowded waiting room full of ...
UPDATE ON THE 2019 CRICKET WORLD CUP (as of June 15, 2019)
You won’t see anything about this in the NY Times, so I am taking responsibility for giving you yesterday’s news today or is it tomorrow’s news yesterday.ย This is all about the Cricket World Cup, currently ...
The Black and White of It
One of my neighbors living three buildings down had his leg amputated several months ago. At first, the doctors thought it was a Brown Recluse spider bite but later figured out it was a circulation problem. ...
The Immortal Ten and the Rescue of John Doy
https://jeffersonjayhawkers.com/about/ In July 1859 Kansan James B. Abbott collected a force of 10 men to sweep into Missouri and spring Underground Railroad operator John Doy from jail. An early Lawrence, Kansas Territory, settler and dedicated abolitionist, ...
Shame, Capitalism and Gay Psychology
Seven years ago, I met with my first gay-specialized psychologist. I was on a path of self-destruction I no longer wanted to be on, and thought this person could help. I had already been radicalized for ...
Police Killings, Class, and “Race”
When I was doing research for How the Irish Became White, I looked at the prison population of Philadelphia from 1815 to 1824, and found, to no oneโs surprise, that black people made up a far ...
Hard Crackers statement in French
Introduction We’re especially pleased to announce that our “Defining Hard Crackers” statement has been translated into French and published in the journal Echanges. The translator wrote to one of our editors to say: “I have been ...