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What Are White Workers Thinking? An Interview with Timothy Lombardo

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Timothy Lombardo is a native of Northeast Philadelphia and the author of Blue-Collar Conservatism: Frank Rizzoโ€™s Philadelphia and Populist Politics. We caught up with him to discuss the post-war dynamics that gave rise to blue-collar conservatism, ...

“Preserving Our Capacity to Act:” An Interview with Kristian Williams

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Hard Crackers:ย  If I understand correctly the argument you’ve made about the efficacy of riots, it’s that they impose, far more effectively than legal limits, that communities can place new limits on police brutality. That seems ...

Doing Time in Trousdale is a Death Sentence! Tennesseans Speak Out

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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. ...

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THIS IS A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT (WITHOUT GUITARS*)

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On the Outside Agitators Question Governors, Mayors, Police Chiefs, and many network TV journalists with their security experts are all set on promoting the idea that the uncontainable sectors of the enormous protests that are engulfing ...

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 ...

“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, ...

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 ...

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Southern Solidarity: Mutual Aid in New Orleans Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

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Recently we had a chance to talk with Jasmine from Southern Solidarity, a mutual aid collective distributing food and supplies to the unhoused people of New Orleans. The COVID-19 death rate in the crescent city is ...

“When Your Home Turns into a Prison”: Former Prisoner Reflects on Life Under Coronavirus Lockdown

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Ronald Owens, aka โ€œCornbread,โ€ lives in Lynn, Massachusetts. He spent 13 years in a Massachusetts maximum security prison, where he and Noel Ignatiev met in 1996 as pen pals. They remained close friends ever since. What ...

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