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Protest & Resistance


An Ordinary White

An Ordinary White: My Anti-Racist Education

Zhandarka Kurti

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Interview with esteemed labor historian David Roediger about his memoir, An Ordinary White: My Anti-Racist Education.

The Karen Effect:ย A Cop Town’s Reckoning with Police Power

Zhandarka Kurti

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Americaโ€™s latest referendum on police power is coming from an unlikely place: Canton, Massachusetts, a mostly white upper middle class and pro-police suburb located just fifteen miles outside of Boston. Jury deliberations began this week in the second murder trial of Karen Read, who is accused of killing her cop boyfriend. For the past three years, the case has divided Canton, with a significant number of residents convinced that Read is being framed by the police and the wealthy local families with ties to them. While the case has all the elements of a true-crime saga, its significance lies in that it is shedding a light on the deepening crisis of police legitimacy among white Americans. In addition, it is also revealing--yet again--the pernicious effects of whiteness, as seen by the inability or unwillingness of Karen Read supporters to connect her fight against a corrupt police and legal system to the current anti-ICE/police uprising.
Rise up, fight back

The Indivisible Committee: Reflections on “Hands Off!” Chicago

Sam Williams

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A week or so ago, a friend and I attended the Indivisible โ€œHands Off!โ€ protest in Chicago. Here is a brief description of what I experienced and some brief takeaways. We got there around noon, but ...

City Time: A Discussion with David Campbell and Jarrod Shanahan

Richard Hunsinger

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David Campbell and Jarrod Shanahanโ€™s new book City Time: On Being Sentenced to Rikers Island (NYU Press, 2025) offers an insightful look into the daily life of one of the most notorious carceral complexes in the ...

Reflections from January 26th in Dallas

Ramon Byrne

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This piece is also posted on Haters Cafe. โ€œA bunch of people just felt free for the first time,โ€ was the immediate reaction of a seasoned comrade to a protest on January 26th, 2025. The demonstration ...
A History of Pan African Revolt cover.

Reading Pan-African Revolt

Tim Bruno

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โ€œI mean, weโ€™re talking about the last twenty years. Thatโ€™s most of our lives. Maybe even all of yours!โ€ Tentative silence. Itโ€™s always hard to gauge how this kind of direct appeal will go over. Then ...

Thankful for President Trump: Thanksgiving with Stop the Steal

Jarrod Shanahan

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This piece was originally published on November 29, 2020 and is one of a series of Trump-related articles we're republishing. On Thanksgiving morning supporters of President Trumpโ€™s doomed reelection effort descended on the Loop neighborhood of Chicago to raise the battle cry โ€œStop the Steal!โ€ The โ€œstealโ€ in this tortured locution is the purported Democratic Party theft of the November presidential election, chronicled in a convoluted conspiracy theory that one conservative federal judge recently compared to โ€œFrankensteinโ€™s Monster,โ€ as it is โ€œhaphazardly stitched together.โ€

From a Tiny Studio Apartment in Chicago

Sam Williams

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I am currently writing from my tiny studio apartment in Chicago that I pay far too much for in rent, listening to the album โ€œControlโ€ by Pedro the Lion, a concept album about a businessman killed ...

Audacity!

Emelina Rosa

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โ€œAudacity, still more audacity, audacity always!โ€ –Georges Danton, French Revolution 1792ย  โ€œThe best defense is disorder.โ€ –The Do-It-Yourself Occupation Guide The first Battle for Tucson ended in victory for us when the cops trashed our encampment ...

Aux armes! May Day in the Olive Grove

Emelina Rosa

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Students at the University of Arizona in Tucson erected two Gaza Solidarity encampments on April 29 and 30. For more information on the battle for Tucson, seeย https://livingandfighting.net/ This article is being published in Living & Fighting ...