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Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Brazil’s Runaway
In this phrase, Nascimento refers to the popular term, “negro de alma branca” or the “negro of a white soul”, which refers to the black individual that whites consider to possess attributes that society associates with white people such as intelligence, education, middle class status and sometimes a distancing from the black community. In some ways, it is similar to the term “oreo cookie” used in black American communities.
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Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Worker Atrocities
On Saturday, June 29, Center City Philadelphia hummed with activity as shoppers and gawkers surged across the sidewalks, enjoying the first sunny day all week. But outside of the Gap outlet on Walnut Street, the crowds pause to look at the dozen people lying on the sidewalk.
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Tuesday, August 6, 2013
Shorter Hours
This essay was originally published in Issue 10 of Jacobin.
“A hundred years ago [Benjamin] Franklin said that six hours a day was enough for anyone to work and if he was right then, two hours a day ought to be enough now.”
Lucy Parsons spoke those words in 1886, shortly before the execution of her husband, Albert.
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