Category Archive for:
Everyday Life
Search
Search by Category
- Abolitionism (18)
- Announcement (37)
- Art (9)
- Black Lives Matter (17)
- Books (28)
- Border (1)
- Capitalism (41)
- Conspiracy Theories (3)
- COVID-19 (61)
- Crime & Illegality (5)
- Education (11)
- Elections (35)
- Environment (6)
- Everyday Life (118)
- Fascism (16)
- From the Archives (59)
- Gender (2)
- George Floyd Rebellion (21)
- Healthcare (13)
- Immigration (11)
- Indigenous Struggles (1)
- January 6th (2)
- LGBTQIA (5)
- Mass Media (13)
- Mass Shootings (1)
- Movies & TV (24)
- Music (23)
- Organizing (48)
- Palestine (17)
- Poetry (3)
- Police (36)
- Pop Culture (36)
- Prison (29)
- Protest & Resistance (35)
- Race (54)
- Remembrance / Obituary (24)
- Repression (8)
- Reproductive Justice (13)
- Revolution (3)
- South Africa (14)
- Sports (18)
- Trump (41)
- US History (42)
- War (15)
- White Supremacy (31)
- Work (46)
- World History (17)
Guntersville, Alabama: Eugene Debs, Sweet Tea and the Quest for Cheap Housing
The first time I saw an unfurled and flown Confederate flag in Alabama was about four years ago on my first trip to Guntersville. In a small squatter trailer camp nestled in a field off Route ...
CATEGORY:
NOTHING HAPPENED
by Noel Ignatiev A white NYC lawyer threatened to call ICE against two restaurant workers speaking Spanish on the job. A white woman called police against black people having a BBQ in an Oakland park. A ...
CATEGORY:
Flags of Distress
Itโs the middle of the month and the eviction notices are out. Walking past peopleโs doors, you see the attached white court papers, fluttering in the breeze like so many SOS flags of distress, signaling that ...
CATEGORY:
The two finest things
โWhy, do you know the two finest things in the industry of the West, finer than factory, shop or ship? One is the black laborersโs Saturday off. Neither the whip of the driver, nor the starvation ...
CATEGORY:
Tenants in Huntsville, Alabama
Responses from a “Look Out For One Another” list post in Huntsville, Alabama, where a tenant posted pix of rotten conditions such as exposed wires at a nearby apartment complex: โEveryone who has ever lived there ...
CATEGORY:
The Autonomous Unemployed in the Netherlands
by Curtis Price In the late 1980s, the Netherlands, like many European countries, was faced with long-term unemployment. Concern arose among Dutch policy makers that changing conditions were creating a U.S. style โunderclassโ: a mass ...
CATEGORY:
Something Lost? Something Gained?
by John Garvey The New York Times recently published a profile of Saul Chandler, a seventy-year old man who now spends most of his time on a boat docked at City Island, a small sliver of ...
CATEGORY:
Book Review: The Unknown World of the Mobile Home
โCrowded Rookeries of itinerant Flophousesโ: A Review of โThe Unknown World of the Mobile Home โby John Fraser Hurt, Michelle J. Rhodes and John T. Morgan (2002, Johns Hopkins University Press). by Curtis Price Here in ...
CATEGORY:
The Ideal of the Broken Down: On the Neapolitan Approach to Things Technical
Alfred Sohn-Rethel Alfred Sohn-Rethel was the author ofย Economy and Class Structure in German Fascism andย Intellectual and Manual Labor: a critique of epistemologyโtwo important works on economics and philosophy.ย He spent time in Naples during the 1920s ...
CATEGORY:
Letter From Huntsville: “Look Out For One Another”
by Curtis Price Through an unknown Facebook friend, I was added to a โsecretโ Facebook group of some 2,000-odd folks in northern Alabama, where I live. You canโt join, you have to be referred and vetted ...
CATEGORY: