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Social Forces and Me

Jonah Raskin

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When my beat up 2009 Jetta with 70, 000 miles was stolen on the street in front of the apartment building where I live, I felt isolated, alone and a victim. It was the big impersonal ...

Eric Garner, the Informal Economy, and the System’s War on Those Who Depend On It

Paul Wasserman

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When Eric Garner was murdered by New York City police in July 2014, the cops had targeted him on suspicion of selling โ€œloosiesโ€ โ€“ single cigarettes taken from illegally untaxed cigarette packs. Witnesses claimed that Garner ...

And the Wrecking Ball Best of All!

Matt Capri

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My temp assignment as the inmate law librarian of a county jail promised to be an encounter with the unknown. Up until that point Iโ€™d worked in many different kinds of libraries, but this was the ...

On the Anniversary of Elvis Presley’s Death

Mike Morgan

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I was born in 1955, right around the time that Elvis Presley broke out in Memphis, Tennessee. ย Throughout my childhood, Elvis was an essential feature, a guiding light.ย  I grew up with The Rolling Stones, Bob ...