In this cafeteria flies swarm the recruiter’s cropped hair. “One thing I hate—” he spits out—”flies!” His dominant hand swipes the air. Pure reflex. . In this same room girls carry plastic babies, lifeless until internal mechanisms inspire crying when …
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a review of On Community: Field Notes #8 by Casey Plett. Biblioasis, 2023
VOTE DRUM The League of Revolutionary Black Workers has been participating in elections of UAW locals and found itself confronted with vote fraud when it was clear the union bureaucrats could win in no other way. At the Chrysler …
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Dear F.E., Just got the new issue. It’s too good to be true! Two issues in a row with relevant, well-written, hip articles specifically for women [FE #105, May 14-27, 1970]. Women being equal with men in all things except …
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“a very great revolutionary force latent in the American people” —Peking Radio, May 9 President Nixon’s announcement of the invasion of Cambodia effectively implemented the old SDS slogan “Bring the War Home!” Millions of people joined the revolutionary struggle, striking …
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MONTEREY, Calif. (LNS) — In over a dozen actions at military bases across the country on May 16, thousands of anti-war soldiers and civilians marched and rallied against the traditional celebration of Armed Forces Day.
2023 has officially been designated as the worst fire season on record in so-called Canada, with almost 20 million acres burned by summer’s end. While these wildfires deeply ravaged many communities, they have most severely impacted Indigenous communities, many of …
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Abuelo, like a history professor, extrapolated on The Zone’s relationship, or lack thereof, with Chicago, the USA, the rest of the world…and, the unlikely events that created a place found on no maps. Abuelo pulled down a screen with a …
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a review of Resurgence: Jonathan Leake, Radical Surrealism and the Resurgence Youth Movement 1964-1967 edited by Abigail Susik. Eberhardt Press, 2023
HIP POLITICS The danger facing freeks—even many so-called “cultural revolutionaries”—is that hip culture is close to a revolutionary cultural movement, but more of a lumpen middle-class culture, deformed by capitalist society, to the extent that it even preserved class-lines between …
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