by Andreana Clay* The Stuart Hall Project, Stuart Hall, (c) Smoking Dogs Films 2013 Phillip Seymour Hoffman died of a heroin overdose this week and I had all kinds of feelings about it: he was a brilliant actor, one … Continue reading →
This post is part of a series on the possible impacts of Trump’s election on a variety of social justice issues. Click here to read more. • • • by Clifford Welch* The new year had barely begun when the sting of a yet-to-be-installed … Continue reading →
by Laurindo Dias Minhoto* In Rio de Janeiro—the “marvelous city”—there is an old port where slave ships that brought captive workers from different parts of Africa to the center of the colony docked. The port area has been recently named … Continue reading →
by J. Patrice McSherry* In 2012 and 2013 there have been important developments in the case of Víctor Jara, the beloved Chilean folk singer and songwriter who was tortured and killed in the Stadium of Chile after the 1973 … Continue reading →
by David Edgar* Whisper it softly, but Britain may have turned the global political tide. To understand the extraordinary political events of the last few days, it’s necessary to grasp a little history. Seven years ago, in the immediate wake … Continue reading →
by Cliff Welch* While Olympic athletes faced victory and defeat along the putrid shores of Rio de Janeiro’s Guanabara Bay, on the shores of sparkly Lake Paranoá in Brasilia, Brazil’s 36th president, Dilma Rousseff, faced only defeats as her enemies … Continue reading →
by Edward J. McCaughan & Ani Rivera* If going home is denied me then I will have to stand and claim my space, making a new culture—una cultura mestiza—with my own lumber, my own bricks and mortar and my own feminist … Continue reading →
by Laurie Coyle* * This is the first in a series of dispatches by filmmaker Laurie Coyle and Chicana activist and former political prisoner Olga Talamante documenting their current trip to Argentina. The occasion is the November 28, 2013, premiere … Continue reading →
(Click on any author’s name to download the pdf) 1984–1980 (Nos. 21–13) 2015– | 2014–2010 | 2009–2005 | 2004–2000 | 1999–1995 | 1994–1990 | 1989–1985 | 1979–1974 Nos. 21-22 (1984) International Lawlessness and the Search for Justice Anthony M. Platt and Gregory Shank, Editorial: … Continue reading →