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Iowa Bluffs

Jarrod Shanahan

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“Indeed, we are all implicated in Iowa.”ย ย  โ€“Heather Anne Swanson, โ€œThe Banality of the Anthropoceneโ€ Crossing the Mississippi River from Illinois into Iowa by car is an almost effortless glide, eliding entirely the forceful pull of ...

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Lessons from Rosemarie: My 25 years in Brooklyn

Theodore Hamm

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โ€œKeep going down Atlantic, then hang a left at Bedford,โ€ advised the lot attendant, a white guy in his 60s, as my pal Patrick and I dropped off a U-Haul truck at the corner of Flatbush ...

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Hymns and Arias โ€“ Rugby in Wales

The Left Hook

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โ€œRugby is a wonderful show: dance, opera and, suddenly, the blood of a killing.โ€ Richard Burton – Welsh actor Thereโ€™s this old gag. Elvis Presley, James Brown and Tom Jones go fishing together in a small ...

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Plowshares into Swords: John Brown and the Poet of Rage: An Appreciation of the Work of Russell Banks

Beth Henson

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The novelist Russell Banks died on January 7, 2023. We are publishing this appreciation of his work by Beth Henson that first appeared in Race Traitor #10 (Winter, 1999).ย Beth does a wonderful job describing Russell Banksโ€™s ...

Special Treatment

Christian Alexander

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1990’s Chicago was not Thatcher’s Britain of the 1980’s. The music of The Specials, while of a specific context, still contained elements which would resonate quite loudly across the sea of time and space, and allowed ...

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Cosmos!

Tony Maniscalco

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On October 1, 1977, Edson Arantes do Nascimento, a/k/a โ€œPelรฉโ€ played his last game as a professional footballer. The game was played at New Jerseyโ€™s Giants Stadium, across the Hudson River from midtown Manhattanโ€™s Port Authority ...

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American decline? Imperial reckoning. 40 years of Combat Rock by The Clash

Christian Alexander

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Interrupting all programs, but we’reย putting out this transmissionโ€ฆa review of the 40th anniversaryย reissue of The Clash’s Combat Rock. August 21st is Joe Strummerโ€™s birthday. He would have been seventy years old.ย  He died twenty years ago. ...

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Clinic Defense in the Era of Operation Rescue

Suzy Subways

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In the early โ€™90s, anarchists and other feminists defended clinics with our bodies and taught each other how to do abortion techniques such as menstrual extraction safely. As the Christian Right bombed hundreds of clinics, killed ...

Rebellion, Routinized

Vivian Kelke

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When the Kenosha verdict dropped in November 2021, the 2020 uprising in my city was still limping along. The actions were led by the same thirty or so people and attended by the same hundredish. The ...

How a Terrifying Event Became a Commercial for the Police

John Garvey

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During the morning rush hour on April 12th, an individual, after putting on a gas mask, set off one or two smokeย canisters in a subway car on the Manhattan-bound N line just outside the 36th Street ...

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