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Where This Is Leading

Rebecca Foust
Taking George Orwell's classic text, 1984, as her foundation, poet Rebecca Foust asks where the current regime is taking us.

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How To Fight Trump’s Attacks on Farmworkers

David Bacon The Nation
ICE is picking people up on warrants for detention across the country. ICE Director Tom Homan calls all undocumented immigrants criminals and therefore credible targets for deportation, no matter how many years they have lived in the country.

film

Frantz Fanon’s Algerian Years on Film

An interview with Jean-Claude Barny Jacobin
In French-ruled Algeria, Frantz Fanon was a psychiatrist and an active member of the National Liberation Front. A new movie portrays his commitment to the anti-colonial struggle.

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Small Comment

Sonia Sanchez, From Collected Poems by Sonia Sanchez Copyright © 2021 by Sonia Sanchez From Collected Poems by Sonia Sanchez Copyright © 2021 by Sonia Sanchez Reprinted with permission from Beacon Press, Boston, Massachusetts
Poet Sonia Sanchez asks the obvious question: man or beast?

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My Vote

Charles Finn The Nature of our Times
Poet and environmentalist Charles Finn imagines a regime that respects the world and all its creatures.

poetry

Poem

Muriel Rukeyser The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser
Writing in 1968, poet and activist Muriel Rukeyser addresses the struggle to imagine and build a more humane world.

film

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea Was Revolutionary Cuba’s Great Director

Michael Chanan Jacobin
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea brought the experience of postrevolutionary Cuba to the screen in classic movies like Memories of Underdevelopment and Strawberry and Chocolate. Alea’s committed, artistically dazzling work set a benchmark for political cinema.
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