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EDDY GET READY, ROCK STEADY!: The Equals, Eddy Grant, and Trump
Most people who are old enough remember the reggae singer Eddy Grant for his popular radio song in 1983 called Electric Avenue. Fewer know about his earlier seminal London rock combo, the Equals. Eddy Grant is ...
Finding Ukraine in the US
I have not been alive, until now, for an invasion of a country in which I personally know dozens of people. I didn’t work or live in Ukraine as an adult; my relation to it resembles ...
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No Standing
Put aside justice, stability and security, the little creature comforts that we all deserve, or finally paying your bills without a knot twisting in your stomach—then maybe the greatest pleasure in landing a living wage job ...
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Picture This, Shots in the Dark: Billy Monk’s Underworld
Repressive societies, like those ruled by regimes that rely on heavy policing to enforce state policy, have a way of creating unique situations and throwing up special characters. Often, the most interesting people are those who ...
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A Glimpse of Nablus
I probably won’t live long enough to bring into being a film I’ve thought about making in Nablus, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, from the time the Women’s Press sent a preview copy of Palestinian poet ...
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More from the Vault: A Brief Encounter with Orlando Pirates
The following piece appeared in Issue #7 of Hard Crackers Magazine, which can be purchased here. I don’t know why I looked round towards our production vehicle. We were in Soweto, in late afternoon sunshine, ...
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More from the Vault: Where Dreams Go To Die
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The following piece appeared in issue #8 of Hard Crackers, which can be purchased here. I get to work late and hung over. I rush past the reference desk, past the remaining display of Black History ...
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Indigenous Peoples’ Day – Isandlwana, The Mother of All Battles
This particular written project got percolating in my head when one of my co-editors, John Garvey, told me this. John recently asked his granddaughter whether she had Columbus Day off from school. She corrected ...
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A Few Bad Apples
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Since the George Floyd Rebellion last summer it has become common practice to paint all police officers in the United States with a single brush. The average American used to believe that most cops were just ...
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Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory – Two Short Essays
More Confusion – No Wonder! By Mike Morgan If there was a board game in which the winner would reveal the official historic and current U.S. position towards most of the Far East peoples and their ...
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