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The Fire Down Below
The popular saying is โWhere thereโs smoke, thereโs fire.โย It is often used to explain the reasons for a rumor, or to describe another firearm metaphor โthe smoking gunโ (the hidden truth that will blow the ...
โAn Injury to One is an Injury to Allโ A Minneapolis Bus Driver on Solidarity with Minneapolis Protestersย
Adam is a bus driver in Minneapolis and a member of ATU Local 1005 and Socialist Alternative MN. In the midst of the ongoing protests in Minneapolis, he made the decision to refuse police officersโ request ...
Cats, Rats and Bats: Dick Whittingtonโs Cat, Rat Infestations and the Trump Quackery
At the foot of Highgate Hill in North London is a statue of Dick Whittingtonโs cat.ย The Dick Whittington story is a part of English folklore.ย It has been embellished over the centuries, and re-enacted through ...
ON THE TB WARD: A few stories of lungs
When I was being treated for TB in the old St Mary’s Hospital on Harrow Road in London โ this was in 1972, a long time ago โ the nurses used to give the patients a ...
Advertising in the Virus Age
To borrow a phrase from the Madison Avenue ad people โIn these difficult times, itโs reassuring to know that we still have enough of what we need.โย Well, letโs be more truthful here.ย We may have ...
“Enough is Enough!” A Letter from Ramsey Orta
“These DOCCS employees working under the color of law with a badge of authority from the State of New York, knowingly and maliciously engage in criminal activity with state sanctioned impunity from acting Commissioner of DOCCS, ...
Losing Kathy: Slow Violence and Social Service Work in New York City
One of my last conversations at Ladders Services was with the Medical Examinerโs office after I heard Kathy had died.* My cubicle was in a cellar with an open floor plan, shared with other cubicles, and ...
To Our Readers:
We hope that you have been following our steady stream of articles and interviews about life under the COVIDย 19 pandemic.ย We’re planning on continuing to put things up as fast as possible.ย If you have ideas ...
Unsafe At Home: Domestic Violence Amid Covid-19
One of the dark consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown that has not received the attention it deserves is the rise in domestic violence cases with uneven trends at the local, state and national ...
In Plain Sight (if we looked)
For the past couple of months, weโve been seeing news reports and ads that tell us: โWeโre all in this togetherโ and โWeโre strongโ and โWeโll never forget our heroesโ.ย Most of the reports and ads ...