Reflections from the margins of what I’m reading, watching, and doing. Embryonic ideas, less formal observations on the world, on … More
Author: Chas Walker
former union organizer, current PhD student
politics and culture | social movements | race and class
The Working Dead: Reviving the Crowd as a Protagonist
Disaster films since the 1990s fail to imagine a future in which ordinary people have a place, let alone one that they build. We need to envision a different horizon.
“Soul Searching” Will Not Stop the Police Murders of Black People
Framing issues of racial oppression and police violence as something to be fixed by examining our inner lives lets existing power structures remain intact and unchallenged.
Poverty wages in nursing homes have accelerated the coronavirus outbreak
In the era of COVID-19, nursing home residents and caregivers are paying an even greater price for the low wages and understaffing that plague the industry.
Frederick Douglass and the Transformational Power of Courage in a Fearsome World
A teenage Douglass fought a notorious slavebreaker in 1833, and the courage he found is relevant to contemporary struggles for liberation.
They called us ‘flat-earthers.’ But we were right.
Reflections on the upsurge of strikes and militancy by today’s social movements from a veteran of the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle.
