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Get Their Knees Off Our Necks
Haley Pessin’s speech for Juneteenth 2020 addressing Amazonians United, rank and file workers at Amazon.
Middle School Can’t Be Digitized
A middle school teacher explains why we can’t just throw all of our lessons online in the face of COVID-19 and pretend that education is continuing as usual.
Clinic Defense and Abolition
Emily Janakiram gives a first-hand account and analysis of Planned Parenthood Clinic Defense, June 20, 2020
A Message from Walter Rodney
Robert Cuffy gives a speech at a march in New York City on Juneteenth, drawing on the words of Guyanese revolutionary Walter Rodney.
Defunding the Police Means Transforming Our Society
Gerald Smith speaks at today’s Juneteenth West Coast port shutdown against racist police violence, continuing the ILWU’s long history of waging antiracist struggles as class struggles.
“We Survive by Working in Their Homes, If They Refuse to Pay Us, How Will Our Homes Run?”
Three domestic workers from India talk about how the pandemic has exacerbated the worst features of working in the informal economy.
American Carnage
Nicholas De Genova argues that, rather than being an aberration, police racism is constitutive of a system of white supremacy embodied in state power.
What Do I Tell My Students?
A NYC teacher provides an account of being severely beaten by the NYPD for violating an 8 p.m. curfew.
Bartending in the Apocalypse
Interview with James Brooke about his graphic vignettes from Bartending the Apocalypse, and excerpts from the work. More available on Instagram: @bartendingintheapocalypse