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 don’t 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
We’re looking for stories that cut through the noise — 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 you’ve 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 bird’s 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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Morbid Curiosity: Reviewing Jarrod Shanahan’s Every Fire Needs a Little Bit of Help
I’ve been a fan of Jarrod Shanahan’s work, but only with his new essay collection Every Fire Needs a Little Bit of Help: A Decade of Rebellion, Reaction, and Morbid Symptoms, published by PM Press, did it occur to me just how long I’ve been reading him. Well, I guess it’s been a decade. I …
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From the Archives
DOWNFALL! Trump in the Bunker
The image of the clot Trump being whisked by Secret Service agents into the White House underground bunker last Friday night (May 29th) to avoid the protests is a satirist’s dream come true. Excuse me for letting fly here. What first comes to mind is the German 2004 film Downfall. It chronicles the last days …
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Doing Time in Trousdale is a Death Sentence! Tennesseans Speak Out
Trousdale Turner Correctional Facility is leading the nation in the number of positive COVID-19 cases, an estimated total of 1,393. Trousdale is a private prison for men in Hartsville, Tennessee, about an hour drive from Nashville. The prison opened in 2016 on the site of a nuclear power plant and it holds about 2,500 men. …
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