Jose Padua: Notes for the Coming Revolution
If I were better at facilitating meetings I might have something resembling a career by now. If I could pursue a lifestyle instead of just being alive, my coworkers might … Continue reading
Video: Marina Abramovic — The Artist is an Explorer
Performance exhibition in 2014 at Fondation Beyeler in Switzerland, curated by Marina Abramovic. With the artists Anna Berndtson, Abraham Brody, Rebecca Davis, Yingmei Duan, Paula Garcia, Kira O’Reilly, Lyndsey Peisinger, … Continue reading
Video: Vanessa German performs two poems for TedxCambridge
true grit; found dovetail wood box, found vintage metal horse, found kitchen stainer, vintage matchbook covers, beads, old broken German doll heads, Jim Beam whiskey stirrers, buttons, beads, keys, hardware, … Continue reading
Marc Jampole: Should Progressives Support Hillary Clinton?
Hillary Clinton’s stand on issues makes her a centrist looking left Hillary Clinton has herself to blame at least in part for the news media covering extraneous issues in the … Continue reading
Patricia A. Nugent: When Hillary Clinton announced that she’s again running for president, I cried.
I had also cried when I voted for her in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary. I didn’t realize they were that close to the surface, but when I actually saw … Continue reading
John Samuel Tieman: Bernie Sanders 2016
Last week, I invested $3.75 in my first “Sanders 2016” button. Like Senator Sanders, I usually caucus with the Democrats. I am also like the senator in that I am … Continue reading
Sarah Browning: I go for days
I go for days forgetting these pictures – bare brown bodies stained and curled on cement floors or cowering in a corner, the dog’s teeth more real than the man’s … Continue reading
Michael Gould-Wartofsky: The Wars Come Home
A Five-Step Guide to the Police Repression of Protest from Ferguson to Baltimore and Beyond As Baltimore braced for renewed protests over the death of Freddie Gray, the Baltimore Police … Continue reading
Chris Hedges: Make the Rich Panic
As we saw in Baltimore, the corporate elites who hold absolute power react only when they become afraid. And they become afraid only when we take to the streets. It … Continue reading
Jon Tribble: Ball and Pivot
. Jerry looked better than any hog-faced man should, a Porky Pig grin always on his face, happy to meet us each time he came around to fix what had … Continue reading
Daniel Burston: What is Anti-Semitism?
Anti-Semitism is an old and remarkably persistent form of ethnic and religious prejudice. Scholars have found strong evidence of anti-Semitic attitudes in Hellenistic and Roman authors up to three centuries … Continue reading
Sarah Browning: Cawing Down the Airwaves
. Hate pulls up a bar stool to watch the All-Star Game in city neighborhoods and on country roads all over the land. Hate roots for the American League. Hate … Continue reading
Laura Gottesdiener: A Foreclosure Conveyor Belt
The Continuing Depopulation of Detroit Unlike so many industrial innovations, the revolving door was not developed in Detroit. It took its first spin in Philadelphia in 1888, the brainchild of … Continue reading
W.J. Astore: Major Sporting Events and Air Shows — Too Corporatized, Too Controlling, Too Much
Been to a major American sporting event lately? If not, consider yourself fortunate. The NFL and NASCAR are already over-the-top when it comes to manufactured noise, exaggerated pyrotechnics, and wall-to-wall … Continue reading →