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The Fire Down Below

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The popular saying is โ€œWhere thereโ€™s smoke, thereโ€™s fire.โ€ย  It is often used to explain the reasons for a rumor, or to describe another firearm metaphor โ€œthe smoking gunโ€ (the hidden truth that will blow the ...

โ€œAn Injury to One is an Injury to Allโ€ A Minneapolis Bus Driver on Solidarity with Minneapolis Protestersย 

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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 Whittingtonโ€™s Cat, Rat Infestations and the Trump Quackery

Mike Morgan

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At the foot of Highgate Hill in North London is a statue of Dick Whittingtonโ€™s 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

Jenny Morgan

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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 โ€œIn these difficult times, itโ€™s reassuring to know that we still have enough of what we need.โ€ย  Well, letโ€™s be more truthful here.ย  We may have ...

“Enough is Enough!” A Letter from Ramsey Orta

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“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

Jesse Bernstein

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One of my last conversations at Ladders Services was with the Medical Examinerโ€™s 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:

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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

Zhandarka Kurti

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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)

John Garvey

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For the past couple of months, weโ€™ve been seeing news reports and ads that tell us: โ€œWeโ€™re all in this togetherโ€ and โ€œWeโ€™re strongโ€ and โ€œWeโ€™ll never forget our heroesโ€.ย  Most of the reports and ads ...
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