Ice Cream, Concrete, and Squats
Gentrification is class war from above which must be answered with struggle from below. This requires accessible projects that can establish a broad and militant praxis.
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Examinations
Essays & Analysis, Interviews & Panels, People’s History – analytical, historical, theoretical, cerebral, literal, somewhat more composed approaches to truth-telling.
Identity Crisis of a Declining, Violent America
If we are no longer the most powerful, no longer the most prosperous, no longer good…who are we? That dislocation is very difficult for a lot of Americans.
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On the Peculiar Racism of Soviet Émigrés
For less conformist members of the Soviet intelligentsia, endless condemnations of racism were essential parts of the state ideology they so despised.
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Heroism and Horror in the Mediterranean
There was nothing like “every man for himself” here. Even 5-year-old kids were helping any way they could. I don’t know how to explain it. The horrifying conditions in Libya have developed a strong sense of community among the people.
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Living Well and Dying Well, Together
We create spaces of care, but it’s difficult to keep them together in a world that tells you this is not allowed. We’re all broken by this structure, which is why I want to get rid of it.
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“When someone can no longer go forward, you carry them.”
“Some trauma just stays. My engagement in struggle helps me overcome my own. But I have friends who are still suffering. It’s hard.”
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From Saraqeb to Raqqa
The mood is that ISIS is so evil that anything is a justified response to it. People don’t know the history of Raqqa and what happened there over the last few years. They don’t know there are human beings living there.
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It’s In Us Already
We can become the people that we really are. We can restore order to the land that way. What I’m telling is a restoration story. If we can marry it with a new way of doing politics, we will become unstoppable.
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“You’re supposed to protect us!”
“She ran away from her husband, he was very violent. Then she got deported, because she didn’t go to her interview, because the social workers didn’t give her the letter in time. They treat us with negligence.”
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