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After El Paso and Dayton

August 9, 2019 No Comments

I wonder if we might contribute something to the discussion by focusing on what I’d describe as the “script” of the post-shooting responses.  That script includes the following: 1.  praise for the first responders; 2.  exhortations from local political leaders that “this will not affect who we are” and “we

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The Ordinary/Extraordinary May Stevens

August 18, 2018 No Comments

May Stevens was born in 1924 and, at the age of 94, lives in New Mexico.  She has been, for most of her life, an artist.  For the last seven decades, she’s been a political artist.  I don’t know if she still creates art for public viewing.  I hope so

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The Peril of Voting and the Promise of Action

June 1, 2018 No Comments

It may well be that no outrage yet carried out under the Trump regime has so galvanized popular disgust and opposition than the decision to implement a policy of separating children from parents when they arrive at the Mexican-US border.  Although the news reports from the detention centers are not

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Something Lost? Something Gained?

April 25, 2018 No Comments

The New York Times recently published a profile of Saul Chandler, a seventy-year old man who now spends most of his time on a boat docked at City Island, a small sliver of land off the east coast of the Bronx.  Apparently, he’s a bit of a local legend on

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Why He Did It

October 16, 2017 No Comments

The authorities and the media sometimes seem more annoyed and frustrated at Stephen Paddock because they can’t figure out why he did it than they are about him killing 58 people and wounding hundreds.  More precisely, they are annoyed and frustrated because they can’t come up with a story about

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Abolitionism: a Study Guide

December 31, 2016 No Comments

By John Garvey and Noel Ignatiev (This was first posted at hardcrackers.com). We think it would be useful to study American abolitionism as a home-grown radical movement launched in inauspicious times. To further that end, we have prepared a reading list and a set of questions.[1] For hard-to-find works, we can

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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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