Lewis M. Steel: We Should Listen to Rev Barber on White Poverty and Multi-racial Organizing
The latest book by the Poor People’s Campaign co-chair shows how racial division keeps both Black and white communities poor—and lays out a real vision to defeat it.
Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan: Beware the Republican Plot to Steal the 2024 Election
Republicans are mounting an all-out assault on the election process that journalist Ari Berman refers to as a “five-alarm fire for democracy.”
George Yancy: The Violent “Othering” of Palestinians
Anti-Arab, anti-Muslim and political racism overlap in othering of Palestinians, says Palestinian scholar Yasmeen Daher.
Hiba Abu Nada: I Grant You Refuge
I grant you refuge in knowing
that the dust will clear,
and they who fell in love and died together
will one day laugh.
Marc Bekoff: Tasty Bacon or Fellow Being? The Paradox of How We Relate to the Intelligence and Emotions of Pigs
Every piece of bacon comes from a unique personality.
Reginald Shepherd: Hesitation Theory
I drift into the sound of wind,
how small my life must be
to fit into his palm like that, holly
leaf, bluejay feather, milkweed fluff
Lourdes Medrano: Who’s Helping Asylum Seekers?
Asylum seekers hoping to enter the U.S. are turning to grassroots organizations for information, safety, and dignity.
Pablo Otavalo: Étude
On the outstretched arm of a pinwheel galaxy
and doomed to be free. Into the bonfire
the vanities, as into a cave
the light.
Dane Cervine: This Burning
I drove silently in the night
into the heaving hills of Los Angeles afire, so close now,
not knowing if there would be a way through
Barbara Crooker: Who Do You Carry?
On city streets, the homeless unfurl
their sleeping bags like hungry tongues.
Matthew J. Parker: Prison Reform Envisioned by a Convicted Felon
I’ve had a lot of things done to me in both jail and prison, but coddling was never one of them. Yet in the late 1980s and 1990s, I heard this word used continually to describe prisons
Marlowe Starling: Unsilencing the Desert
“Nomads are in contact with nature every day, surrounded by rivers, mountains, and deserts. The silence of the desert allows them to hear nature.”
Video: Lessons from people already adapting to the climate crisis
The Maasai people have lived sustainably off the savanna for centuries, raising cattle for sustenance and income. Climate activist Dorcas Naishorua paints a picture of how the climate crisis is threatening their way of life — and calls for local and international support as they’re forced to adapt to a changing environment.
Video: Charlie Chaplin Swallowed by a Factory Machine — Modern Times (1936)
In Chaplin’s last performance as the iconic Little Tramp, his character struggles to survive in the modern, industrialized world.
