by Judy Helfand In Eating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian Avenger, Kelly Cogswell whirls the reader into her life as a cofounder of Lesbian Avengers in New York City, 1992. The book’s title comes from one of their first actions where several Avengers learned how to eat fire as …
We recently received a letter from one of our readers that we wanted to share with a wider audience. The email letter is posted below. Dear Blog Editor, I believe capital punishment is one of the critical social justice issues of our country, and is, in many ways, the sharp …
The East Bay Solidarity Network has released Evict This! a handbook on the history of housing in West Oakland and tools to resist displacement. The burst of the “housing bubble” in 2008 began a process of siphoning the hard earned wealth of families of color into the hands of the …
Recently I had an opportunity to sit in on a class at Santa Rosa Junior College where the speaker was Steve Martinot and the topic was “How Race Was Created and Became Part of Our Institutions.” One of my big takeaways from this talk was the concept that “the construction …