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When Prisons Privilege Family Ties, Who Gets Left Behind?
Prisons sometimes temper their isolating nature by connecting prisoners to family, but State Raised individuals are still excluded.
Raymond Williams September 21, 2023
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The Fragile Now
A Ukrainian poet reflects on the new ordinary.
Lyudmyla Khersonska February 27, 2023
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Shmita Means Total Destroy
A manifesto from the threatened Atlanta forest
Fayer Collective January 30, 2023
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A Butterfly in Gaza
“It was just a week ago that I saw Gazan children practicing childhood the way they are supposed to, but that must have been deemed too good for them.”
Kholoud Balata August 10, 2022
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The Challenge of Defending Memory in Germany
A Berlin conference organized to combat right-wing appropriation of Holocaust memory faces enduring backlash over Palestine.
Joshua Leifer July 7, 2022
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Ramadan in Gaza
“Thinking that I was having a nightmare, I forced my eyes to stay shut. But then, the second bomb came.”
Kholoud Balata April 29, 2022
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A Seder on Rikers
On celebrating freedom with the incarcerated
Arielle Isack April 22, 2022
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The Passion of 964 Park Place
A standoff between tenant organizers and yeshiva students over the fate of a Black family’s home summoned the specter of the Crown Heights riots, and provided an object lesson in housing activism at the end of the Covid eviction moratorium.
Ari M. Brostoff March 29, 2022
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A Week on Rikers Island
“No human should be in a place like that.”
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Shabbat Terror in the West Bank
For religious Zionist settlers in the South Hebron Hills, attacks on Palestinians have become a Shabbat afternoon pastime.
Maya Rosen September 9, 2021
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Roasting in a Western Washington Prison
Climate change is intensifying the suffering of incarcerated people.
Christopher Blackwell July 2, 2021
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The Power of the Polish Women’s Strike
Six months ago, I would never have placed myself in a police cordon of my own volition. But a lot has changed since then.
Katarzyna Boni April 1, 2021
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My Prison Is Still Flouting Public Health Guidelines
In a Washington State prison, masks are scarce, and guards don’t follow the rules.
Christopher Blackwell December 17, 2020
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A Strike Against Despair
On the eve of Rosh Hashanah, a University of Michigan undergrad reflects on the sense of possibility unleashed by the grad student strike.
Miriam Saperstein September 18, 2020
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Watching the Protests from Prison
We cannot protest our treatment at the hands of the police state, but we are looking to the protesters with pride.
Christopher Blackwell June 16, 2020
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Taking Care
In the Twin Cities over the past week, protesters refused the state’s mythic monopoly on care, and thus its thin alibi for its violence.
Nathan Goldman and Claire Schwartz June 5, 2020
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Lessons From Strike University
Coronavirus disruptions have only intensified the resolve of striking UC Santa Cruz grad students fighting for a pay increase.
Delilah Friedler April 2, 2020
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A Missed Opportunity
New York’s march against antisemitism, meant as a show of unity, instead highlighted the deep fissures between the different American Jewish communities.
Joshua Leifer January 7, 2020
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Tea and Solidarity
In the UK, Jews and Indians on the left are joining forces against the right’s Islamophobia and bigotry.
Imogen Rez and Ilyas Nagdee December 11, 2019
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The ADL Cannot Lead on Civil Rights
At its annual conference, the organization’s Trump-aligned, right-wing Israel advocacy eclipsed its liberal agenda.
Joshua Leifer November 27, 2019
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How Far Is J Street Willing to Go?
Its annual conference has become a space for left-wing criticism of Israel, but the organization remains cautious.
Arianna Skibell November 6, 2019
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Don’t Call It an Anniversary
One year after the Tree of Life attack, the Jewish community of Pittsburgh is still trying to make sense of what happened.
C.A. Pinkham October 28, 2019
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Tradition Compels Us to Respond
Religious communities are confronting the threat of climate change with activism.
Arianna Skibell September 25, 2019
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We Will Protect Each Other
Efforts to scare anti-ICE protesters with extrajudicial violence won’t work.
Eve Condon August 16, 2019
