Some explanations, for those of you who do not read french, or are not from Quebec, are below. For those of you who do read french, and are from here, you should be able to get it without having to read further. As the below is an explanation of …
Texas reigns supreme in the punishment business. With 173,000 inmates and more than twice as many paid employees as Google, Texas’s prison system is the largest in the United States, outstripping even California, which has an overall population 50 percent larger. By almost any measure, Texas stands out. The state’s …
The Red Army Faction, A Documentary History – Volume 1: Projectiles for the People (February 2009); Volume 2: Dancing with Imperialism (June 2013) Edited by J. Smith and AndrĂ© Moncourt, Published by PM Press and Kersplebedeb Volume 1, Forewords by Russell “Maroon” Shoats and Bill Dunne ISBN: 978-1-60486-029-0, Paperback, 736 …
Another Black/New Afrikan transwoman has been murdered, more business as usual in this horrible world. As a 2012 study by GLAAD revealed: People of color, transgender people, and gender non-conforming people continued to experience higher rates of homicide in 2012. LGBTQH people of color represented 53% of total reported survivors …
[Reblogged from MrZine; see the original here] Twenty-five years ago, I, a hapless reporter on assignment, went to the DC Jail and met the woman who was to be my life’s partner. I interviewed her about her political bombing case; we fell in love; I visited her in various prisons …
This essay is a review of The Failure of Nonviolence: From the Arab Spring to Occupy by Peter Gelderloos (Seattle: Left Bank Books, 2013) by Gabriel Kuhn; it first appeared on the Alpine Anarchist website. When, some months ago, I read on thegild.blogspot.se that Peter Gelderloos was among someone’s “favourite activist writers”, I wasn’t …
Been reading Punishing the Poor:Â The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity for some time now – in fact began at the beginning of the year, stopped, and now thanks to my newfound enthusiasm for reading on a tablet, i’ve started again. Wacquant writes from a social democratic point of view, which …
i was prepared to be annoyed by David McNally’s Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires and Global Capitalism, and was pleasantly surprised that i was not. This book was much more nuanced and interesting than i had expected. (i had been somewhat mislead by his very short essay on the same subject …
Everything about Crystal’s life was ordinary, except for her death. She is one of a demographic—white women who don’t graduate from high school—whose life expectancy has declined dramatically over the past 18 years. These women can now expect to die five years earlier than the generation before them. It is …
A year ago, Ebony magazine published a useful article about CeCe McDonald, the 23-year-old Black transgender woman who was sentenced to 41 months in prison for second-degree manslaughter despite clear evidence that she was simply defending herself from a violent racist and transphobic attack. It was a good article, and included …