June Jordan: A Poet of the People

Ed Rampell The Progressive
Believing poems should be for the masses, Jordan used her way with words to illuminate causes such as racial equality, Palestinians’ struggles, feminism, and gay rights in essays and reportage, as well as poetry.

The Amazon Imperative: Unions Must Join Forces

Peter Olney and Rand Wilson Labor Notes
The stakes are high for U.S. labor. If we are going to remain relevant, unions must meet the challenge of building worker power at such a behemoth by making Amazon organizing a project of the entire labor movement.

Dante in Auschwitz, Ulysses in Hell

Murray Silverstein
Oakland poet Murray Silverstein takes you, me, Primo Levi, Dante & Ulysses on a tour of hell, a place not unlike contemporary America.