“The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” – Audre Lorde, poet and activist The U.S. presidential election is over and the long process of campaigns and vote counting is fading away. Now, we see the disputed election and shameless lawsuits,...
In an exciting example of how to fight against a right-wing court and its government, hundreds of thousands of Polish women took to the streets in cities all over their country in late October to defend abortion rights, to the cries of “PiS (ruling party) out of our...
When facing a society in serious crisis, and a government that doesn’t represent our interests, how should we respond? This is the question posed by activist and organizer Tom Hayden in the opening scene of Aaron Sorkin’s movie, The Trial of the Chicago 7. He was not...
One of the leading pharmaceutical companies, Pfizer, says that the vaccine they’ve developed with BioNTech for COVID-19 is 90% effective at protecting people from transmitting the virus, and 50 million doses will be available by the end of the year. This...
On Friday, October 16, just as teachers and students were returning home for a two-week vacation, Samuel Paty, a history and geography teacher from the Paris region, was beheaded as he left his school by a Muslim fundamentalist. His crime? Having illustrated a course...
