Will Glovinsky: Basic income’s appeal today is similar to its roots in 18th‑century England – it’s a way to compensate people for a common good taken for private gain
The rich who control AI are getting richer. Other people’s fortunes are in decline. To prevent mass hunger and political chaos, we will need a new system: a basic guaranteed income.
Marianne Dhenin: Nurses Forge Alliances to Protect Patients From Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
“The idea was to build a rapid response team that is specific for the hospital.”
Eric Ross: Forever War (Yet Again!)
The Price of Empire and the Costs of War on Iran
William Butler Yeats: Easter, 1916
I have met them at close of day
Coming with vivid faces
From counter or desk among grey
Eighteenth-century houses.
Jose Padua: What I Keep Coming Back To
watching her lean forward,
tilted like a bell about to ring,
to shake hands with the man
who always panhandled there
Jodi Vandenberg-Daves: The Minneapolis protests recall a long lineage of women’s peace movements
We saw in Minneapolis what we’ve long seen in U.S. peace movements: Women bringing innovation, moral clarity, caregiving and an insistence on justice.
Patricia A. Nugent: Missing Who I Was
This sign hit me hard today. I, too, miss who I was before…when I could watch the news, sleep at night, find time for creative expression. Feel unabashed joy.
Elise Kazanjian: Reading at Bird & Beckett book store in San Francisco
We pick our fights. We
march for rights. We
thousands strong. We
replace wrong.
George Yancy: The Black Anti-Fascist Tradition Recognized Fascism Didn’t Begin in Europe
The earliest roots (or pillars) of fascism — authoritarian rule, genocide and ethnic cleansing, militarism, racial capitalism, dual application of the law — can be traced to the colonization of Africa and chattel slavery across the Americas.
Ellen McGrath Smith: Plea to the Plutocrats During Holy Week
We will all be together, you will never avoid it,
in the air, the earth, and the ash.
Philip Terman: Tell Them Everything
Lucky she was, not to spend time in an Iranian
Jail, fortunate to emigrate and meet my brother
And fall in love, a Jew and an Iranian
Video: Israeli And Palestinian Mothers Walk Barefoot For Peace In Rome Streets
The activists demanded an end to violence, emphasizing that mothers everywhere want their children to live in dignity and safety.
Rebecca Gordon: American Gulag
We know we can dismantle the American gulag, because some of us are already doing it. It’s time for the rest of us to get to work.
