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NOTHING HAPPENED

Noel Ignatiev

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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 ...

Flags of Distress

Curtis Price

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Itโ€™s the middle of the month and the eviction notices are out. Walking past peopleโ€™s doors, you see the attached white court papers, fluttering in the breeze like so many SOS flags of distress, signaling that ...
WEB DuBois

The two finest things

W.E.B. DuBois

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โ€œWhy, do you know the two finest things in the industry of the West, finer than factory, shop or ship? One is the black laborersโ€™s Saturday off. Neither the whip of the driver, nor the starvation ...

Tenants in Huntsville, Alabama

Curtis Price

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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: โ€œEveryone who has ever lived there ...

The Autonomous Unemployed in the Netherlands

Curtis Price

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  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 โ€œunderclassโ€: a mass ...

Something Lost? Something Gained?

John Garvey

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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 ...

Book Review: The Unknown World of the Mobile Home

Curtis Price

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โ€œCrowded Rookeries of itinerant Flophousesโ€: A Review of โ€œThe Unknown World of the Mobile Home โ€œby John Fraser Hurt, Michelle J. Rhodes and John T. Morgan (2002, Johns Hopkins University Press). by Curtis Price Here in ...

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The Ideal of the Broken Down: On the Neapolitan Approach to Things Technical

John Garvey

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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 epistemologyโ€”two important works on economics and philosophy.ย  He spent time in Naples during the 1920s ...

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Letter From Huntsville: “Look Out For One Another”

Curtis Price

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by Curtis Price Through an unknown Facebook friend, I was added to a โ€œsecretโ€ Facebook group of some 2,000-odd folks in northern Alabama, where I live. You canโ€™t join, you have to be referred and vetted ...
vote or die

Alabama: “Vote or Die”

Curtis Price

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by Curtis Price The election of Democrat Doug Jones in Alabama December 12th sent shock waves through the political establishment. To put Jonesโ€™s victory in perspective, the last time a Democrat wonย  a Senate race in ...
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