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Review
“Free CeCe!” Explores Prison Abolition and Anti-Trans, Anti-Black Violence
“Free CeCe!” will be available streaming as soon as 2017.
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Attica: How the Suppression of an Uprising Fed the Prison Industry
Those who ordered the slaughter at Attica prison intentionally sent the US down the path of mass incarceration.
Making Rights Work: A Review of “The Human Rights Enterprise”
This review looks at the real, on the ground ways that claims to human rights actually function to challenge power.
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A Lawyer Who Turned the Tables: Graphic Biography Immortalizes Leonard Weinglass
A graphic biography of Leonard Weinglass vividly depicts the brilliance of this passionate advocate for justice.
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Comics Teach Union History and Importance of Solidarity
A comic book series on 150 years of Canadian labor history shows “hope is critical to struggles for social change.”
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“The Legend of Tarzan” Promotes the White Savior Myth and Historical Amnesia
The new Tarzan flick promotes an ahistorical white savior complex.
See You at the Barricades! Three Books That Revive the Memory of the Paris Commune
Radical comics editor Paul Buhle explores the history of street fighting Parisians and the lasting legacy of Communards.
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The Punishment Paradigm: Two New Books Take on Prison, Race and History
Two works by young scholars of color bring fresh perspectives to the history of mass incarceration and the rise of debtors' prisons.
Novel Charts One Man’s Efforts to Stop Climate Change
Pity the poor, middle-aged curmudgeon whose life did not turn out as expected.
An End of Power? The Weakening of the Transnational Ruling Class
Moises Naim's argument that we need to attend to shifts in how power operates is right, but he is wrong in claiming power no longer exists.