Efforts are underway to chloroform the public about the realities of the procapitalist, imperialist politics of the Biden administration and the catastrophic economic and social conditions under which it begins.
By Greg Markley
Four years after I attended Jimmy Carterâs inauguration, things were changing. I graduated from college with a bachelorâs in political science (which in that economy could get you a good job with a lot of luck and abundant prayer.) After working as a security guard for nine months, I said what-the-heck why donât I save money for two months and go to Reaganâs inauguration?
On the Amtrak train heading to the nationâs capital, I talked with fellow passengers. This was before the onslaught of personal electronic devices which have much utility but do separate people a lot. I came across a young man adorn in the Ivy League style that I was familiar with from attending lectures at Brown University, near my own college in RI.
Killing Zoe is Generation X s first bank caper movie, an ultra-violent screamfest about a soft-spoken American who gets involved with a gang of drugcrazed Parisian thieves and blunders into a hostage situation. It must have been even more exhausting to make this film than it is to watch it. But it s made with a kind of manic joy that makes me suspect its writer-director, Roger Roberts Avary, might develop into a considerable filmmaker, once he thinks of something to say.
The movie stars Eric Stoltz as Zed, a shaggy-haired American safecracking expert who met the Frenchman Eric (Jean-Hughes Anglade) during a student exchange program. They have remained fast friends since those carefree school days, when they robbed minimarts together, and now Zed has flown to Paris to open the safe of the bank Eric plans to rob.
Famous for its social movements against the Vietnam War, in defense of the planet, demanding Black civil rights, gay liberation, and women’s equality the 1960s and 1970s were also a fertile time for the underground press in the United States. Reveal Digital’s Campus Underground collection on JSTOR includes more than seventy-five publications, many from college campuses or college towns (often produced by a loose cluster of students and other college-aged young people). The open access digital archive provides an exhilarating glimpse into this creative and politically incendiary period.
The explosion of small publications alongside the political upheaval the latter of which is documented in a companion collection, Student Activism is not a coincidence. Historically, an alternative press has thrived when social movements are most active. Political organizing gives the alternative press more material to write about. The movements also produce more readers for such outlets: in polit