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Taking Hope and Laughing, Too
Below is my review of a great new eBook, America’s Got Democracy! The Making of the World’s Longest-Running Reality Show. Haymarket Books, 2012, $8.99. This article first appeared in Socialist Worker....
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Do-It-Yourself Disaster Relief
Ordinary people can be extraordinary in a crisis. During a mammoth storm, they can risk their own lives to pull others from harm’s way. Within hours, they can load up cars and vans with those stranded...
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Gaza’s Right to Resist Israel’s Terror
This article originally appeared in Socialist Worker, Nov. 20, 2012. Residents of Gaza City carry the victims of the Israeli assault on Palestinians OF THE 1.7 million people currently living under...
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Our Stockholm Syndrome
In the early 1970s there was a spate of kidnappings that received such widespread attention that even my third-grade class played kidnapping at recess (when we took a break from playing Vietnam). Ah,...
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Obama: Shoulder to Shoulder with an Apartheid State
Barack Obama with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Ari Zoldan) THE HEAD of the U.S. empire paid a three-day visit to the praetorian guard of the Middle East oil lake that concluded March 22....
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NYC Dykes to Israel: Meh
Israel, I’ll be blunt, NYC dykes are just not that into you. I’ve been on a bit of a dating whirlwind these last months, which basically means I’ve had an inordinate number of rendezvous in cafés and...
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The Case for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
Here is the video of my talk at UC Berkeley, April 17, 2013, “Israel is an Apartheid State: The Case for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions.” Later that evening, I had the enormous joy of attending part...
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NYC Turkish Protests: Accidental Activists
The crowd of 150 or more outside the Turkish consulate in midtown June 4 was not filled with seasoned activists. Mostly in their early twenties and studying in the New York area while working low-wage...
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Queer Liberation or LGBT Rights? Sexuality, Reform and Revolution
Video of my talk at Socialism 2013, June 29, 2013.
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My latest video at the Nation.
This was my 3-minute response to the Nation’s videographer Karen Rybold-Chin about my thoughts regarding the connection between the expansion of LGBT rights and the struggle for queer liberation.
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