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Reportback from Common Ground Relief 09.04.08
Hello friends, comrades and allies We, from Common Ground Relief, have just returned from the Louisiana Gulf Coast from delivering…
Will the real story please stand up? Darby, democracy and self
Hello comrades, friends and allies After listening to the pieces on ‘This American Life’ about Brandon Darby in which parts…
Anniversaries So We Don’t Forget: Katrina, Common Ground and New Orleans four years on.
August 29th 2009 Hello comrades, friends, companera’s and allies It is that annual time of the year when in the…
Eating Crow: Mistakes, Brandon Darby, the FBI and Our Resilience
January 5th, 2009 “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”—Zora Neale Hurston Dear Comrades, Friends, Compañeros and…
Who is this man? Part 1
What a black and white photograph of an unidentified man found in the Lakehead University Archives tells us about violent…
How Albert Woodfox Survived Solitary
As one of the Angola 3, he was in isolation longer than any other American. Then he came home to…
Yellow Vests
Self-organized Yellow Vest Protest Movement Exposes Inequality and Hollowness of French Regime by Richard Greeman Ignored by Macron, distorted by…
The Center Falls Out:[1] The Role of the Faculty in the Columbia Strike
By Richard Greeman Most of us who teach English, Philosophy, or History of foreign languages to Columbia College undergraduates have…
Seasons Greetings from France’s Yellow Vests: “We are not tired”
(Montpellier, France, Dec. 29) Is the Yellow Vest rebellion, now in its seventh week, “petering out?” Such was the near-unanimous…