Making Our Arrests Count
“The Tombs” is the less-than-endearing nickname for New York City’s Central Booking, the jail you get sent to if you are arrested in Manhattan and set to be arraigned before a judge. This spiraling...
View ArticleReclaim Your City With a Global Movement
Well, it happened — massive protests around the world, strikes across Europe, tens of thousands in the streets of New York City, student walkouts, radical art, banners hanging everywhere, slogans...
View ArticleOccupy Sandy, From Relief to Resistance
Two weeks ago I was in my hometown of Hoboken, New Jersey, wading waist deep in a murky combination of floodwater, oil and sewage. More than a week later, after finally getting unstuck from New Jersey...
View ArticleThe Best Response to Disaster: Go On the Offensive
They say the best defense is a good offense. I Googled the hell out of this phrase but couldn’t find a definitive answer on where it comes from. It’s attributed to everyone from the football coach...
View ArticleTime to Go on the Offensive
The best defense is a good offense. It’s been almost two months since Hurricane Sandy. Windows of opportunity that have opened will soon close again, and we need to seize the moment. There are now...
View ArticleA Symphony For Trayvon Martin
I had been to Atlanta, Ga., before — running trainings with Occupy Our Homes Atlanta as part of the Wildfire Project. But until Saturday, I had never been to Atlanta the day George Zimmerman was...
View ArticleConfessions of a Climate Change Denier
I suppose it wasn’t really until I was standing on the west side of Hoboken, N.J., in water and oil up to my thigh, that climate change really made sense. And it wasn’t until I was out organizing on...
View ArticleUndoing the Politics of Powerlessness
I’m in a warmly lit apartment on the Lower East Side. It’s a cool night in early October of 2011, the height of Occupy Wall Street. What a fucking whirlwind it’s been. Two months ago I had just moved...
View ArticleThis Country is Up For Grabs
It’s the morning of Feb 3, 2017. I’m at my desk at home, in Brooklyn, sunlight creeping through the blinds on the window to my left. I’m hovering between work emails and Facebook, following the rabbit...
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Bernie’s Back and He Wants Us to Fight For Each Other
Bernie Sanders’ rally in Queens on Saturday was electric. The speeches were powerful. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez brought the house down. She reminded us that a year ago she was a waitress in lower...
View ArticleReclaim Your City With a Global Movement
Well, it happened — massive protests around the world, strikes across Europe, tens of thousands in the streets of New York City, student walkouts, radical art, banners hanging everywhere, slogans...
View ArticleOccupy Sandy, From Relief to Resistance
Two weeks ago I was in my hometown of Hoboken, New Jersey, wading waist deep in a murky combination of floodwater, oil and sewage. More than a week later, after finally getting unstuck from New Jersey...
View ArticleThe Best Response to Disaster: Go On the Offensive
They say the best defense is a good offense. I Googled the hell out of this phrase but couldn’t find a definitive answer on where it comes from. It’s attributed to everyone from the football coach...
View ArticleTime to Go on the Offensive
The best defense is a good offense. It’s been almost two months since Hurricane Sandy. Windows of opportunity that have opened will soon close again, and we need to seize the moment. There are now...
View ArticleA Symphony For Trayvon Martin
I had been to Atlanta, Ga., before — running trainings with Occupy Our Homes Atlanta as part of the Wildfire Project. But until Saturday, I had never been to Atlanta the day George Zimmerman was...
View ArticleConfessions of a Climate Change Denier
I suppose it wasn’t really until I was standing on the west side of Hoboken, N.J., in water and oil up to my thigh, that climate change really made sense. And it wasn’t until I was out organizing on...
View ArticleUndoing the Politics of Powerlessness
I’m in a warmly lit apartment on the Lower East Side. It’s a cool night in early October of 2011, the height of Occupy Wall Street. What a fucking whirlwind it’s been. Two months ago I had just moved...
View ArticleThis Country is Up For Grabs
It’s the morning of Feb 3, 2017. I’m at my desk at home, in Brooklyn, sunlight creeping through the blinds on the window to my left. I’m hovering between work emails and Facebook, following the rabbit...
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Truths My Teacher Told Me: Reframing the Debate on Iran, Iraq and US Imperialism
Author photo via Facebook. My earliest memory of being politicized was by my high school history teacher, Dr. Charles Case. It was the fall of 2000 and the USS Cole, a U.S. warship, was bombed off the...
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