Dispatches From the Culture Wars – January 30, 2024
Portside
Oscar fever
Oscar fever
Oscar fever
Dispatches From the Culture Wars – September 12, 2023
Portside
Are corporations a woke conspiracy?
labor
As New York Skies Darken, Delivery Workers Help Each Other
Labor Notes
Forced to continue working in hazardous conditions, New York City workers had to help themselves and each other during a sudden dangerous decline in air quality last week.
film
HBO’s New Documentary Is About the Early 1970s, but It Couldn’t Be More Timely
Slate
The Janes felt only months ago like a warning. Now it feels like a manual for action.
To Abolish Prisons and Militarism, We Need Anti-Imperialist Abolition Feminism
Truthout
“In this society, safety and security will not be premised on violence or the threat of violence; it will be based on a collective commitment to guaranteeing the survival and care of all peoples.”
Dispatches From the Culture Wars - April 13, 2021
Portside
Resisting racist police violence and voter suppression, and the beat goes on
books
In 'The Upswing,' History Holds The Keys To Moving Away From Today's Tumultuous Age
NPR
A symptom of our society's ongoing crisis is the loss of live, in person community networks and the personal and social relations founded on those networks. This book explores this problem and offers solutions.
Mutual aid, Abolition and Movements: An Interview with Dean Spade
Portside
Dean Spade is a trans activist, writer and teacher. Stephanie Luce interviewed him about his recent book Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (And the Next).
books
Building Solidarity
The Indypendent
The anarchist philosopher Peter Kropotkin, writing in 1902, called Mutual Aid "the conscience — be it only at the stage of an instinct — of human solidarity." This new book offers insight into how that idea can live in today's world.
Activists Are Mobilizing to Create an Eviction-Free United States
Truthout
“Rent strikers and people at risk of losing their shelter are doing all they can to stop the violence of evictions and promote a vision of collective and community ownership of housing for everyone.”
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