Timothy Karr: Building an Internet Movement from the Bottom Up
‘In the end, the Internet is simply an effective tool for connecting people. Whether the network becomes a force for good or evil is up to its users.’ In the … Continue reading
Jose Padua: On the Distant Prospect of Three Mile Island
The distant prospect of Three Mile Island from the window of our hotel room this December day reminds me of how underrepresented my people have been in the popular culture … Continue reading
Djelloul Marbrook: Our Discourse About Racism is too Narrow
I’ve felt from a very early age that we can’t engage in honest discourse about racism in our society unless we take the full measure of racism as it has … Continue reading
Medea Benjamin: Federal Prison Sentence Begins for Anti-Drone Activist
An interview with peace activist Kathy Kelly On January 23, Kathy Kelly, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, a campaign to end U.S. military and economic warfare, begins a three-month … Continue reading
Jenne Andrews: Nightfall on Ellis Island
In my dream someone said resolutely, Commit the body to the deep, and I thought, does the sea too promise itself? And the icons of liberty were themselves as salt, … Continue reading
Doug Anderson: Memphis, 1970
Came home from that war trailing death like ground fog. Wandered summers, did trim carpentry in Texas, bartending, landed in Memphis working for a marble mill where with old Thomas … Continue reading
George Yancy and Judith Butler: What’s Wrong with “All Lives Matter”?
George Yancy: In your 2004 book, “Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence,” you wrote, “The question that preoccupies me in the light of recent global violence is, Who … Continue reading
Martin Luther King: The Key
Originally posted on Great Middle Way:
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. … I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This…
Mel Packer: Martin Luther King’s Radical Legacy
Now, some might say, “Radical?, King was no radical!” And, in fact, the image all too often projected in our children’s classrooms and in the mass media on MLK Day … Continue reading
Abby Zimet: “Oh My God, They Use You for Target Practice.”
In your weekly, admittedly rhetorical WTF-is-wrong-with-this-country turn, it seems cops in South Florida have been using real photos of real black men – bullet-riddled, obviously, when they’re done with them … Continue reading
Doug Anderson: The Way Back
. Dear American left (what left? who’s left?): could it be that while we were stamping our feet in righteousness the Right ran off with the store? Could it be … Continue reading
Dawn Potter: Mr. Kowalski
1 In last night’s dream I was preparing myself to travel over the Tappan Zee Bridge on a moped at midnight in the sluicing rain. . I would have to … Continue reading
Sharon Doubiago: Abu Ghraib. Guantanamo Bay
You can’t unring the bell, he admonished, meaning 1948, Israel. So all these bells are ringing, Nazi, Kamakazi waves out into the universe forever and I have seen you, as … Continue reading
Marc Jampole: President Obama’s new tax proposal
What took Obama so long to address our unfair tax system? And why is his plan so complicated? Barack Obama started with majorities in both the House and Senate. Six … Continue reading →