Taken together, the protests happening within and against the courts today seem connected as strategic flash points, part of a rising struggle over the value of legal process and legal equality for ordinary people or even a rejection of the rule of law within this bourgeois democracy.
At a time when the United States is backing Israel’s wanton destruction of the besieged Gaza Strip, in what some scholars have called a “textbook case of genocide,” principled dissent is of paramount importance.
Race relations have become so strained in the Tennessee General Assembly that even a resolution to honor an elderly civil rights activist sparked controversy.
Real estate greed, the glutted police budget, ceaseless gentrification, racist journalists, Eric Adams, Kathy Hochul, white people we cycled through the injustices, against them, resuscitating despair into focused rage.
The album gives me space to imagine beautiful places and sappy romantic love. It gives me the space to imagine intentional rest that does not imply lockdown, to imagine interactions with people that don’t signal death, and to imagine a healthy, abundant sex life that I have yet to experience.