Julian Assange is a character of his time. He conceives and practices journalism based on principles such as freedom of expression and information, the need for transparency in the exercise of government, and the use of technological resources that characterize the telecommunications revolution, a revolution that has transformed the ways…
Works in Progress
I was a Marxist and didn’t know it. A few weeks ago, my good neighbor told me he’s a Marxist. When asked what that meant, he said among contemporary political figures, Bernie Sanders’ viewpoint, though basically socialist, aligns well with Marxist philosophy. Supporting Bernie’s platform but ambivalent about his run…
A couple years ago I found myself in the kitchen of a white working-class organizer with decades of food service and movement building experience. Airen’s eye rolls, laughter, cursing, and ability to cook, strategize movement work and build relationship all at once offered me a place to reflect on the…
“We came to work. I know I’m not getting asylum because they don’t give you asylum for hunger,” a young migrant from Honduras told a reporter. “But us on the caravan would rather die fighting than sitting in Honduras waiting to starve or be killed.” A history of US intervention…
This morning my roommate told me that people, when they are screaming, bleeding to death in Iraq, usually scream about their families. Their wives, children, parents. He says he saw it on the internet. A website with movies taken by soldiers over there. Shows what war really is, he said,…
As truth seekers, we trudge through youth and try to learn the ways of this world. We see a messed up world and wonder how thinking humans continue to tolerate the ridiculous state of affairs. Our common sense tells us that we can have a much better world —a world…