Vol. 85 No. 5, October 2021

Index

• THE FAITH OF THE LA FOLLETTES.
• THE POWER AND PROMISE OF ORGANIZING.
• A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH.
• Fight the Imaginary Enemy!(NO COMMENT)
• Gun Control Success Story.
• Now He Tells Us.
• Reign of Tearers.
• The New Normal.
• Unjust Mercy.
• Wherever Would They Get That Idea?
• Break 'Em Up.
• Hey, Joe: Stay in Your Lane.
• Let the Truth-Telling Begin.
• Not Progress Enough.
• Praise for Schools Package.
• Sex Work Not Victimless.
• BLAST FROM THE PAST.
• Correction.
• Spreading the Cooperative Idea.
• Way to Go!(LETTERS)
• SAVING CANCER ALLEY: Activists in a polluted stretch of Louisiana continue to fight against new fossil fuel industry developments, despite the pandemic.
• WELCOMING REFUGEES.
• NOT TAKING IT TO THE STREETS.
• CRACKING DOWN ON PROTEST.
• Biden, Democrats Face 'Pivotal Moment': Can they be pushed into doing the right things?
• Creating a Powerful, Broad-Based Moral Movement.
• One World, Many Defenders: The urgency of climate change is spurring a broad array of activism.
• Fighting the Eviction Epidemic: Without a federal eviction moratorium in place, organizers are often the last line of defense for vulnerable renters.
• Our Housing Crisis: The Tucson Tenants Union fights evictions, which have worsened since the beginning of the pandemic.
• REFUSING to SERVE: Restaurant workers are rejecting low wages and deteriorating conditions.
• The Movement to Organize Restaurants: I'm a food service worker in New York City; here's why I'm fighting against the chronic low pay and unstable working conditions we've gotten used to.
• Q: How Can Activists Organize Against Economic Inequality?
• On Becoming the Heroes We Were Waiting For: The Affordable Care Act saved my life. I am one of many health care activists in the United States who wouldn't be here without it.
• Help for Heroes: Unions take aim at what ails the U.S. health care system.
• Solitary by Another Name: As states pass new laws to reform solitary confinement, advocates are pushing for this harmful practice to be fully abolished.
• The State of Solitary.
• UNLOCK THEM UP! In Massachusetts and elsewhere, advocates ate pushing for alternatives to incarceration.
• BEYOND BARS.
• Librarians to the Defense: Groupsform to fight a conservative-led attack on libraries'efforts to promote social justice.
• 'Endless Wars' That Never Should Have Begun.
• Take This Job and Love It: Worker cooperatives offer an alternative to keeping power and profits in the hands of a few rich people.
• Taking a Knee: New book tells the stories of dozens of people who joined Colin Kae per nick's protest Here is one of them.
• 'We Have to Reduce Corporate Power': An interview with professor and activist Zephyr Teachout.
• Truths and Roses: In the spring of 1936, the writer George Orwell planted roses in his garden.
• A Message We Must Hear: In Until I Am Free, a wonderful and timely new book on the life of civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, author Keisha N. Blain deftly portrays Hamer as a thoughtful and prescient political activist whose message for todays racial justice movements is as powerful as it was more than a half-century ago.
• The White Stuff: The nonfiction anthology A Field Guide to White Supremacy is a book that meets the moment. Edited and presented by Kathleen Belew and Ramon A. Gutierrez, it is about the idea of white supremacy--and, as Chicago poet Haki R. Madhubuti once said, "Ideas," and their creators, "run the world.".
• HOMEOWNERS OF THE WORLD, RELAX.
• NO SPORTS UNTIL WE'RE WELL.
• in the event i become some unrecognizable beast.
• WORKERS WANT TO WORK, AND TO GET RESPECT.