Robert Walicki: Afraid
You were afraid they could tell by looking you were that kind of man, because of the dead deer who dove into the front end of your truck head … Continue reading
Chris Hedges: The Return of American Race Laws
The warmup act for a full-blown American fascism and orchestrated race war is taking place in immigrant and marginal communities across the United States: Racial profiling. Random police stops. Raids … Continue reading
All 6 Oscar nominees for best foreign film wrote a letter denouncing “fanaticism and nationalism among leading politicians” in the U.S.
Here is the text of the letter released by ABC News: .
Joan E. Bauer: Exile in Gorky
They gather close, melded, like titanium and iron, in an upholstered chair. Academician Sakharov, upright, Elena Bonner, leaning hard against him. Her face stained with foreboding. His eyes steady. Sakharov’s … Continue reading
Abby Zimet: Trump and Putin Great Leaders, Yes?
We’ll Take Our Comic Relief Where We Can Get It Dept: The ghastliness of the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) conclave and Herr Trump’s abject nightmare of a speech was … Continue reading
Video: Throw
. From Early Light Media’s passion project series, Throw tells the story of an outsider from East Baltimore, an area challenged by gang violence and poverty. Often misunderstood, Coffin Nachtmahr … Continue reading
Jeremy Brecher: ‘Climate Kids’ vs. Trump is no ordinary lawsuit
Trial of the Century Pits Trump Climate Denialism Against ‘Right to a Climate System Capable of Sustaining Human Life’ Two days after the election of Donald Trump, 21 plaintiffs aged … Continue reading
Michael Simms: Saul Alinsky’s 13 strategies to take your community back from Trump
Saul Alinsky (1909 – 1972) is generally considered to be the founder of modern American community organizing. Alinsky focused on improving the living conditions of poor communities across America, especially the … Continue reading
Video: Big Bad Voodoo Daddy — Why Me?
. Big Bad Voodoo Daddy is a contemporary swing revival band originally formed in Ventura, California, in 1989 by leader Scotty Morris. The band was named Big Bad Voodoo Daddy … Continue reading
Deb Marett: Cease Fire
Leningrad, 1942 “Rehearsal did not take place. Srabian is dead. Petrov is sick. Borishev is dead.” This is an excerpt from a journal entry by the conductor of a rag-tag … Continue reading
Marc Jampole: Trump’s War On Us
Trump’s war on immigrants comes home. Guess what? It’s part of a larger war on our economy and our values. The other day I was at a friend’s house when … Continue reading
Deborah Bogen: Learning to Eavesdrop
The Summer I Took The Special Art Class I began to understand — the moon could be aspirin, or Necco, or clock or porcelain plate in the sky. The moon … Continue reading
John Samuel Tieman: A Pebble on a Gravestone
In a rising tide of racism and anti-semitism around the world, vandals toppled and damaged more than 170 headstones at the Chesed Shel Emeth Society cemetery in the St. Louis … Continue reading
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr: Conscience asks the question
Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And … Continue reading
