By Carol Downer American society seems surprised and shocked that Janay Rice decided to not leave her boyfriend, Ray Rice. Anti-rape feminists in the ’70s knew why a woman stays with an abusive boyfriend or husband. It is the male-dominated…
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A Letter for My Nephew Who Could Have Been Mike Brown
By David Dennis, Jr. … We’ve taught you to avoid certain parts of town, dangerous scenarios and situations where you’ll be in the middle of gang violence. I don’t feel like you’ll be one of those statistics. But what you…
Letter on Gaza
click to enlarge By Dottie Zellner EDITORS’ NOTE: Dottie Zellner was active in the 1960s in the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF). Below is a post she made to the SNCC listserve on…
The Missing Word
By Bruce Hartford As a writer by trade, I love the English language. I love its richness, its breadth, its depth. Yet it’s missing a word. We know and hold an important concept for which English provides no word that…
How Ladies Against Women Flummoxed Phyllis Schlafly
By Barbara Winslow EDITORS NOTE If not planned well, guerilla theater–frequently an accompaniment to protests or sometimes the protest itself–can fall flat, can confuses more than enlighten, and can insult the very people it’s trying to reach. At its…
Hating the Rich
By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz EDITOR’S NOTE: The following appeared on Counterpunch and MRzine sites in March 2007. We think it’s worth repeating given the further consolidation of power by the rich in the past seven years. “The rich are not…
A Practical Solution to an Urgent Need
Reprinted from Monthly Review, Volume 65, Number 11 (April 2014) http://monthlyreview.org/2014/04/01/practical-solution-urgent-need By Gregg Shotwell Gregg Shotwell is a retired UAW member who frequently contributes poems to the Blue Collar Review, and is the author of Autoworkers Under the Gun (Haymarket Press,…
Happy International Workers Day!
To mark May Day we recommend Bev Grant’s song “We Were There.” The link takes you to a page with the song and video. http://bevgrant.com/we_were_there/
W.E.B. DuBois on the Meaning of Work
From a speech given in 1953: W.E.B. DuBois on the Meaning of Work
“How to Defang a Movement: Replacing the Political with the Personal”
“How to Defang a Movement:Replacing the Political with the Personal” was a panel presented at an unusual academic conference called A Revolutionary Moment: Women’s Liberation in the Late 1960s and the Early 1970s at Boston University on March 27-29, 2014.…