A voice of progressive democracy and the Resistance
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Six years ago today we fought to liberate Portland from a mass of fascists who had converged from throughout the nation to occupy the city; a force which included organized deniable assets of white supremacist terror like the Proud Boys who are a terror bro group of white male grievance, the Oathkeepers who are an... Continue Reading →
The idea of freedom is in question, as America falls into tyranny and state terror, captured state of the Trump Fourth Reich and its mission of the sabotage of democracy both here and throughout the world has now reached the tipping point where her institutions are too damaged by infiltration and subversion to resist... Continue Reading →
On this day in 1619 over four centuries of slavery and Resistance began in America with the first slave auction, and no human being has been truly free or equal here since, for we are all possessed by the legacies of our history as shared national trauma. We must bring a Reckoning for... Continue Reading →
The Lovecraft Mythos remains an iconic study in fear as the organizing principle of an invented mythology of Absurdist Nihilism; it also reveals how we use fear to shape ourselves and others. What are its methods and purposes in Lovecraft, and in horror literature in general? Why do we need fear as an instrument... Continue Reading →
We learn languages to be able to think the thoughts of others and to inhabit their imaginal realities as our own, and to turn boundaries into interfaces as a global family member. Language is the primary layer of identity, which determines the kinds of ideas we are able to have, and since my teenage... Continue Reading →
There are some things which must never be forgotten, lest they be repeated, and six years ago today America came perilously close to re-enacting the Holocaust. Trump did not conceal it; he campaigned on it. And won. This is the central truth with which we must grapple, we Americans, we human beings, and... Continue Reading →
Because the personal and the political are interdependent, and we are made of the stories we tell about ourselves, to ourselves and to others, I offer here a story from my family history as told to me by my mother of how Jewish people saved our family, when no one else would, and without whom... Continue Reading →
Let us celebrate and amplify the cause of all black cats, figures of historically marginalized others and all those whom Frantz Fanon called The Wretched of the Earth; the powerless and the dispossessed, the silenced and the erased, with whom I, as the founder of Lilac City Antifa and member of the Resistance founded... Continue Reading →
Of the Fall of Afghanistan we may say with Charles Dickens as written in A Tale of Two Cities; “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity,... Continue Reading →
Hispanic-American History & Literature Hispanic-American History Century of the Wind, Eduardo Galeano Crucible of Struggle: A History of Mexican Americans from the Colonial Period to the Present Era, Zaragosa Vargas El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America, Carrie Gibson The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A... Continue Reading →
Who is an African American, and who decides? What is race, and what are its consequences as an idea for a nation founded on the principle of universal human equality which recognizes no such differences under the law, but which historically has seldom behaved so? Of the legacies of our history, there are... Continue Reading →
The world rejoices in the anniversary of the Fall of the British Raj, and Independence Day in India and Pakistan, nations which embody the civilizational duality of the subcontinent, long afflicted with sectarian division and its weaponization in service to power as a legacy of colonialism, and of the imposed conditions of anticolonial struggle.... Continue Reading →
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