Tens of thousands of California educators joined forces statewide, wagering that they could win more by working together. The result was a wave of strikes this school year that defied narratives of austerity and won better funding.
From teachers to the mothers searching for the forcibly disappeared, Mexico will be holding numerous, massive protests against the 2026 Men’s World Cup as it kicks off in Mexico City on Thursday. This follows hundreds of protests and actions held over the past months as FIFA and governments prioritize tourists and corporations over urgent local [...]
I was recently surveying my computer’s contents and I came across the text of a book I had written over a half century ago. It was published in 1974 by a small progressive publisher named for its founder, Porter Sargent, located in Boston Mass. I turned, I think, 25 when I was writing it. Its [...]
What would you do if you could get anything that you ever wanted? Not through some act of blood-soaked violence, but simply through the force of your desire. What if you could manifest it, just make a wish for that thing you really wanted more than anything else? What if all you needed to do was tap a button on a screen and any product you could think of would be with you in just a day? What would you rationalize and excuse away? You could do everything and anything you wanted, able to outsource your sense of responsibility or justice to an abstract and impersonal force, able to be a monumental coward and still indulge your own desire.