Disaster Optimism
A review of Rebecca Solnit’s A Paradise Built in Hell (Author’s note: A good companion piece to this book is Catastrophism: The Apocalyptic Politics of Collapse and Rebirth, recently published Continue reading
By the Book
Not the James Tracy from Florida.
Listen Whitey! James Tracy Interviews Pat Thomas
An interview with Pat Thomas, author of Listen, Whitey! The Sights and Sounds of the Black Power 1965-1975 Available from Fantagraphics Books. ____________________________________________________________________ The Latin origin of the word “radical” is radix Continue reading
Repost-Hidden 1970′s Review
This is a review of the Hidden 1970s: Histories of Radicalism, book edited by Dan Berger. It was just published in the Journal of American History. I contributed a chapter Continue reading
By the Book 12/13/2011
What We See: Advancing the Observations of Jane Jacobs (New Villiage Press, 2010) Jane Jacobs was one of the few voices in the wilderness of city planning against 1960s urban Continue reading
By the Book 12/12/11
On the Road To Healing, An Anthology For Men Ending Sexism, Basil Shadid ed. (Dual Power Press, 2009) There’s the old saying that the personal is political and the political Continue reading
Occupy Books by Deric Mendes
“The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain Continue reading
We Speak of Our Comrade
This poem was written in 2004, at the request of Andrew Wood, for a fundraiser at El Rio. We has just learned that our good friend Eric Quezada was battling Continue reading
I’m very happy to be a part of this important event, to support my friend Sarah Shourd’s work to free her fiancee Shane, and their friend Josh from prison in Continue reading
A Look Back: Jobs or Income Now Community Union
Early Years In 1965, Peggy Terry and Dovie Thurman met for the first time in a storefront office in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago. The two women, one white and one Continue reading
The Case for Community-Owned Bay Area Sports
What is to be done? We can only say what is heretical, as two lifelong Bay Area residents and sports aficionados: Don’t let the door hit you on the ass on the way out.
