This year's commemoration marks a turning point in Holocaust remembrance. What we want is to honor the dead and empower the living, but often we end doing neither.
We may no longer herd people with HIV/AIDS into colonies, but economic policy still leads to destitution and despair. That's why activist group ACT UP UK have reformed.
Even in a just war we need to feel the
pain and tragedy of losses on the other side. And in the Brink's
robbery our own mistakes and failings led to unnecessary casualties.
An extract from Love and Struggle: my life in SDS, the Weather Underground and Beyond.
The
need for a despised underclass of darker-skinned cheap labor has underpinned
American prosperity since slavery. A new film looks at the lives of the latest
class of disposable “plastic people.”
I’m sick of seeing people die, I’m tired of losing loved ones. I don’t want to die on the streets, I don’t want to get shot over some nonsense and I don’t want to shoot anyone.
Author and activist Leslie Feinberg died this week, just before Transgender Day of Remembrance. As the opposite of a single-issue activist, ze showed what it was to resist, and to stand in solidarity with others.
In immaculate clinics people are segregated, held down, drugged, often with no other purpose than to control them and get them out of the way. Content warning: eating disorders, self harm, medical abuse.