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…
Transgender Solidarity?
“This absolutization of identity, this quick abrogation of universality, strikes me as politically very dangerous. For a start: if in the constitution of your identity, I have no rights of cognition, participation, criticism, then on what basis may you ask…
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…