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Celebrating the Leadership and Comradeship of Charlene Mitchell

William P. Jones Portside
“People who truly believe in justice and equality, and peace and socialism, should not actually really care whether their contributions are individually noted,” Angela Davis asserted at a tribute to her friend and mentor, Charlene Mitchell, in 2009.

Abolition As Method

Kay Gabriel Dissent Magazine
Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s Abolition Geography is written to be used.

Of Potato Latkes and Pedagogy

Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall Perspectives on History
The process of examining recipes and cooking instills concepts more deeply than traditional modes of assessment; learning about Jewish women just by reading texts would be particularly ahistorical.

In Obama’s Working, There Is No Way Out

Alex N. Press Jacobin
Barack Obama abandoned his commitments to unions, and many top staffers went to work for the gig economy. In his Netflix series Working, the former president bears witness to workers’ suffering as if it were immutable.

UPS Teamsters Vote To Strike

Chris Isidore CNN
If a strike does come, it would be the largest against a single employer in America’s history, as UPS (UPS) is the largest unionized employer in the private sector.

Not Brave, Not Free

Lee Rossi Cultural Daily
California poet Lee Rossi knows what’s wrong with America—but who will listen?