Making Rights Work: A Review of “The Human Rights Enterprise” By Cynthia Kaufman A few years ago, when California was…
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Making Beautiful Things Where Everyone Gains and No One Profits
By Cynthia Kaufman My friend Annette Aylward is trying to make a living as a crafts person. She makes beautiful…
The Fortress World of Capitalism vs. the Beautiful Possibilities of Cooperation
By Cynthia Kaufman Our beloved world is entering an increasingly unstable period, full of dangers and also full of possibilities.…
Bring Back Pell Grants for Prisoners
By Cynthia Kaufman When I was in working on my PhD in philosophy at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst,…
The Power to Stay: Magical Realism from SF’s Mission
Daily life in San Francisco frequently involves bearing witness to yet another suddenly-shuttered local business, mostly the ones that don’t…
Google Will Never Be a “Good Neighbor”; We Need to Be Our Own Best Hope
Pictured here is some of the dark side of the Star-Wars-themed demonstration, “Google: Don’t Be Evil,” on Wednesday, June 25,…
Organizing Social Spaces as If Social Relations Matter
The Four Rs Throughout the history of resistance, rebellion, and revolution—the three Rs that should be taught alongside the traditional…
What Silence Might Say
On the one hand, we need a certain amount of faith in life in order to keep moving through it…
Anarchism
Note: This piece is a reworked extract from my book Anarchism and Its Aspirations (IAS/AK Press, 2010, http://www.akpress.org/anarchism-and-its-aspirations.html) for the Lexicon…
Homes Not Games
There is this game that landlords play in San Francisco. They write all the rules, of course. And they break…