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Gentrification Rocks NC’s Historic Black Community
Ever since the New York Times highlighted Durham as one of the best new cities to live in the South, gentrification has been steadily creeping.
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School Killings Put US Culture in Spotlight
The increase in violence on a national scale, especially the recent spate of shootings on school grounds, has many Americans, even the u201cexpertsu201d on mass killings, asking one another; …
Out of the Mouths of Babes
My seven-year-old daughter’s new favorite song is, no joke, “Banks of Marble,” sung by Pete Seeger.
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Socialism and Sports
The world of organized sports is a microcosm of corporations vs. workers and community. This meme can also be exploited to our benefit.
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Mondragón and the System Problem
The bankruptcy declaration of Mondragu00f3n Corporation's major subsidiary, Fagor Electrodomu00e9sticos Group, illustrates the need for large-scale cooperatives to go beyond competition in the existing economic system and begin to …
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With Great Concern: A Plea for Marissa Alexander and All New Afrikan Women
An inmate at California's Pelican Bay State Prison makes an impassioned plea for Marissa Alexendar:
Political Cowardice Is Political Courage
It seems telling that the most vocal people fervently endorsing many elements of the reform agenda have either a political or economic stake in moving those policies forward.
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Remembering Lou Reed
Reedu2019s true legacy is his example for the survivors, those of us who will live through the coming turmoil.
A Nostalgic America, Haunted By Ghosts
The America that believed in technology as a solution to all things has become almost a century later a landscape where ghosts comfortably dwell.
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John Carpenter’s Prophetic Visions of the American Police State
Those seeking a good scare tend to overlook the deeper, overarching themes that speak to the filmmakeru2019s concerns about the unraveling of our society, particularly our government.