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War is hell! Peace is better?

September 29, 2021 Leave a Comment

If we want to stop the war, we’ll have to end the peace! As probably just about everyone here today knows, everyday life in peacetime is deadly for people all over the world.  Many people die but many more survive for living deaths — lives without hopes or dreams. There’s a connection between the deaths […]

Filed Under: Race Traitor, Uncategorized Tagged With: 2003 War on Iraq

Life and Death of Timothy McVeigh

October 3, 2001 Leave a Comment

            Timothy McVeigh was guilty.  He’s dead.  We’re all guilty.   We’re alive.  What can we do so that the deaths that he caused and his own death do not leave us even farther from the world that we want.  I haven’t been to Oklahoma City; I don’t really know what it’s like to visit the […]

Filed Under: Race Traitor

Abolition and the Free Society

April 20, 2001 Leave a Comment

.. the primary creative force will be the collective actions of the mass seeking to solve the great social problems which face them in their daily lives. Intellect will play a high role, higher than ever, but it will be the intellectual activities of millions of men, dealing with realities. Intellectuals will be of use […]

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About

I have been a political activist for more than fifty years.  Soon after college, I began driving a taxi in New York City and became an active member of the Taxi Rank and File Coalition.  That experience profoundly shaped my views and I remain friends with many of my taxi comrades.

In 1978, I stopped driving and entered into education work–which I then did for more than thirty years–almost all of it at the City University of New York.  That also profoundly shaped my views.

At the same time, I continued my political activities–most importantly as an editor of Race Traitor, an editor of Insurgent Notes and part of the editorial group of Hard Crackers.

The writings collected here reflect all those experiences.  My intention is to regularly post new things that I’ve written.

However you found your way here, I hope that you find something of value.  I would really like hearing from you about your thoughts and reactions. Write me here.

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