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Obsessive Culture War Is a Dead End. Just Ask Ron DeSantis.
If there was ever any doubt that Donald Trump has this thing in the bag, it was removed by last night’s results in New Hampshire. It was the state where Nikki Haley’s chances were the best. From here,...
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Time Has Come Today – Becoming Revolutionary
[The following is a mildly edited transcript of the 267th episode of the Podcast Titled RevolutionZ.] I borrowed the title Time Has Come Today from a Chambers Brothers song, released in 1967. I added...
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From Rebel to Retail − Inside Bob Marley’s Posthumous Musical and...
The long-awaited Bob Marley biopic “One Love” will highlight important moments in the musician’s life – his adolescence in Trench Town, his spiritual growth, the attempt on his life. But as a music...
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Pro-Israel Patriots Owner Robert Kraft Spends $7m to Use Super Bowl as...
Super Bowl LVII in 2023 was the most-watched US telecast in history, and with well over 100 million people expected to tune in on Feb. 11, Super Bowl Sunday will provide one of the biggest platforms on...
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Gaza Besieged, Jews Divided, & a World in Pain: Gabor, Aaron, & Daniel Maté...
Gabor Maté and sons Aaron and Daniel got together in Vancouver BC to discuss what’s happening in Gaza, Israel, and the worldwide Jewish community. Full Transcript
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Will Sports Gambling Ruin Super Bowl Sunday?
In a startling 44% increase from the previous year, an estimated $23 billion will be spent on sports betting on Sunday’s Super Bowl game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs. Just...
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Singles Project: For the Love of Activism
Does getting involved in social change work help you meet people, make friends and even find love? And would it matter if it did? If the goal is to grow resilient people-powered movements, then it is...
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The Man Who Changed Colors
Dashiell Hammett, the key writer in the twentieth-century detective novel both in print and in screen adaptations of his work, had it right. “The Butler Did It,” the answer to the mystery in a...
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How the Ruling Class Became Vulgar
Who governs? For socialists, the answer is often an obvious one: the capitalist class governs, of course. But upon closer inspection, the composition of the ruling class is no more obvious than that of...
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Right-Sized Belonging: Six Practices For Organizers
Belonging is a fundamental human need that shapes our motivations and actions. In a social movement context, belonging can be defined as people feeling that they are seen, valued, and recognized as...
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Laying the Groundwork for Gaza’s Permanent Exodus
Since the beginning of Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip, innumerable treasures of Palestine’s cultural heritage have been damaged or destroyed. Like so much of the rest of the besieged enclave,...
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The Obliteration of Gaza’s Multi-Civilizational Treasures
Since the beginning of Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip, innumerable treasures of Palestine’s cultural heritage have been damaged or destroyed. Like so much of the rest of the besieged enclave,...
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Outdated Narratives Have Humanity in a Downward Spiral—It’s Time to Tell...
The stories we do and don’t tell about ourselves and these times in which we’re living shape the direction of our lives and our cultures. Stories have the power to alter how we interact and relate....
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The Concept “Privilege”: Barrier or Bridge to Social Justice
I recently participated in a brief email exchange about “privilege” and it made me think a broader discussion might prove worthwhile. Does using the concept privilege as in “white privilege,” “male...
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Changing the World with Fire and Love
The easiest way to cope with the news is to shrivel it into an us-vs.-them abstraction and, thus, to extract as much humanity from it as possible. I’m thinking about the recent protest death of Aaron...
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‘Opera has never been white’: The Invisible Legacy of Black Women in...
It was 1781 when a 14-year-old girl made her debut as an opera soloist in Saint-Domingue, the former French colony now called Haiti. She was a free person of color, the first person of African descent...
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We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt, the Power of Defiant...
“We speak of four fundamental forces,” a physicist recently said to me, “but I believe there are only two: good and evil” — a startling assertion coming from a scientist. Beneath it pulsates the...
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The Double Edge Theater’s Project to ‘Rematriate Land’
The economic realities in the U.S. do not generally support working-class artists and culture bearers—an issue that has only been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. According to a March 2021 report...
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Tish Murtha: Born With a Silver Camera in Her Hand
March is Women’s History Month. A suitable time to celebrate Tish Murtha. March also marks the eleventh anniversary of her death. March 2024 would have seen her celebrate her 68th birthday. She ought...
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Close-up of Death Culture: 1,000 in Entertainment Biz Proclaim Support for...
Last week, Variety reported that “more than 1,000 Jewish creatives, executives and Hollywood professionals have signed an open letter denouncing Jonathan Glazer’s ‘The Zone of Interest’ Oscar speech.”...
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