The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
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Biased? Damn Right I Am
I would like to address the most common complaint about my writing about the Québec student movement: namely, that it is “biased.” My simple response to this is: You’re god damned right it is!
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Letter From Newfoundland and Labrador: If Helpers Fell From the Sky
I wonder what we would do if helpers fell from the sky. If, here in St. John’s, a couple dozen people came out of nowhere and started putting in their own time to making this city (and by extension the world at large) a more welcoming place.
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The Occupy Caravan Starts Now
Kicking off this afternoon, the Occupy Caravan will travel the nation’s highways to spread the word that we need to end corporate rule, reclaim our government and establish a new measure of economic fairness.
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#Occupied: Reports From the Front Lines
This week in Occupy, Scott Walker is sadly still Wisconsin’s governor, a judge ruled the indefinite detention provision of the NDAA to be unconstitutional, Occupy won major victories in New York and Seattle, Occupy Fresno became the longest-running encampment in the country and everyone who was anyone wrote the Movement’s obituary.
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At the Heart of an Occupation: Brian Douglas
At the Heart of An Occupation is photographer Stacy Lanyon’s photo journal of the people who comprise Occupy Wall Street. On March 29, she presented Brian Douglas, in his own words.
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NYPD Clamps Down on Casserole March
This week’s casserole march in solidarity with Canada's student movement was a record in how quickly NYPD stepped in to crack down on marchers.
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Bailing Ourselves Out: Leveraging Against Banking Barons in America’s Heartland
A culture of greed and corruption has permeated – even driven – each of the financial institutions that the government emphatically calls “too big to fail.”
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Only Knowledge Can Bring Revolution
Three years ago I found myself pouring over the SUNY Plattsburgh course catalogue to fulfill the university’s world systems requirement. I chose a study of the history of the Caribbean. About a month after I had entered Dr. Voss’s class, his academic leadership had drawn me into the Latin American Studies program.
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Your Comrades from Cairo
In an open letter, Egyptian revolutionaries write that recent elections were nothing but "an attempt by the prevailing military junta and its counter-revolutionary forces to garner international legitimacy to cement the existing regime and deliver more lethal blows to the Egyptian revolution."
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At the Heart of an Occupation: David Everitt-Carlson
At the Heart of An Occupation is photographer Stacy Lanyon's photo journal of the people who comprise Occupy Wall Street. On June 1, she presented David Everitt-Carlson in his own words.
