Book Review – If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
In If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution, published last year, journalist Vincent Bevins attempts to explain how a decade of massive protests led to few changes, and in some cases brought about almost the opposite of what participants in the movements originally wanted. To do so, he takes us around […]
Trump Cabinet Picks and Officials, Part II
Last week Trump announced the first dozen nominees to his Cabinet and other high level positions in what will surely be a reactionary, anti-worker government. Since then another half dozen have been publicly named. Robert Kennedy Jr. will be nominated for Secretary of Health and Human Services. Kennedy is yet another opportunist who was willing […]
Who Killed Malcolm X?
Recently, the historic Black activist Malcolm X’s children brought forward a $100 million suit against the Department of Justice (DOJ), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), and the New York Police Department (NYPD). They allege that these agencies played a role in the assassination of Malcolm in 1965. The lawsuit includes claims […]
Reseña de la película: Radical (2023)
Radical (2023) es una película basada en la historia real de Sergio Juárez Correa, un maestro de escuela primaria en la ciudad fronteriza de Matamoros, en el noreste de México. Conocida por los lugareños como una “escuela de castigo”, los estudiantes viven en la pobreza y rodeados por la violencia de los cárteles del narcotráfico. […]
Film Review: Radical (2023)
Radical (2023) is a film based on the true story of Sergio Juárez Correa, a grade school teacher in the border town of Matamoros in Northeastern Mexico. Known by the locals as a “school of punishment,” the students live in poverty amid drug cartel violence. After losing faith in the education system, Sergio arrives with a plan to try a radical new way of teaching. He challenges […]