Will The Death Of George Floyd Mark The Rebirth Of America? By Nick Turse, Tom Dispatch. June 15, 2020 Will The Death Of George Floyd Mark The Rebirth Of America?2020-06-152020-06-15https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/george-floyd-new-yorker-cover-full.png200px200px Above photo: “Say Their Names,” by Kadir Nelson. The New Yorker 2020. For a close-up interactive version of this cover in which the murder of George Floyd embodies the history of violence inflicted upon black people in America visit the New Yorker. A Man Forced to Die with His Face Pressed to the Ground May Yet Shift the Earth Under Your Feet. They were relegated to the protest equivalent of a ghetto. Their assigned route […]
Rebirth
Tonight should have been the Tony Awards. But Broadway has been shut since March 12, and with it the postponement of those shows (and cancellation of a few others) that would have qualified for them. Indeed, this year the Awards feel a faraway shadow—and not just because there is no Broadway to fuel a ceremony right now. The death of George Floyd and subsequent protests and debates about racism and change have led Broadway and the wider world of theater—like many individuals and institutions—to necessarily question itself, not for the first time, about the need for urgent change. Yet again, theater […]
COVID-19 Sparks A Rebirth Of The Local Farm Movement May 25, 2020 COVID-19 Sparks A Rebirth Of The Local Farm Movement2020-05-252020-05-25https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/urban-farm-e1590418037436.jpg200px200px Above photo: Urban farmer Ali Greer inspects her crops at Avenue 33 Farm, a backyard urban farm in Los Angeles on March 25, 2020. – Tomassini and his partner Ali Greer, who sell their produce to restaurant chefs and to direct to consumers via community-supported agriculture (CSA), say that despite demand from chefs dropping off due to restaurant closures due to the coronavirus (Covid-19), demand for their produce and flowers is higher than ever as consumers look for a steady source […]
The Rebirth Of A Logistic Workers’ Movement? By Flynn Murray, Dissent Magazine. May 20, 2020 The Rebirth Of A Logistic Workers’ Movement?2020-05-202020-05-20https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/1589553098upsfeature.jpg200px200px Above photo: A UPS driver in late April in Brooklyn, New York. John Lamparski/Getty Images. The history of rank-and-file organizing at UPS reveals the opportunities and challenges for a union movement of delivery and warehouse workers. An interview with Joe Allen, author of The Package King. Booked is a series of interviews about new books. For this edition, Flynn Murray spoke with Joe Allen, author of The Package King: A Rank and File History of UPS (Haymarket Books). Joe Allen’s The Package King, published in […]