Update Available: Why Big Tech is in the business of education reform
By Kelly Seacrest My home town recently started to host screenings of the documentary Most Likely To Succeed. I went to a screening with an open mind, excited about the potential for interesting discussions about education. What sadly proceeded was a documentary about the importance of training children to work in the tech industry. Following the screening there was a “community discussion” with a Google … Continue reading Update Available: Why Big Tech is in the business of education reform
Into the Red: Where Local Organizers Talk Shop
Strat Chat. Nebraska is a long-time conservative state. But it wasn’t always that way. Back in the day, the Great Plains region was the most progressive in the US. Democratic Socialists of America members Erika Paschold and Jude Kerouc chat with Mark Honey about how to bring that energy back. Mark Honey: What should Nebraskan socialists be focusing on at this time? For … Continue reading Into the Red: Where Local Organizers Talk Shop
No One Left to Speak Out
Fiction by Bao Hu Yi At the piercing sound of her blaring text tone, Teresa was suddenly and inconveniently awake. She reached around for the offending device, doing a fair impression of Ray Charles before he’d had his coffee. ‘Someone had better be dead I swear…’ she thought as she clumsily knocked the contents off of her bedside table in the struggle. She’d been up … Continue reading No One Left to Speak Out
Can we build a society for all animals?
By Phil Gillen You don’t have to look hard to find absurd, laughable statements made in the name of animal rights. Whether it’s PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) asking us to stop using “anti-animal language” like “kill two birds with one stone,” or an earnest vegan attempting to convince us that drinking milk is equivalent to rape, animal rights activists often make … Continue reading Can we build a society for all animals?
The Power of Alternative Institutions
By Evan Carlson It should come as no surprise that capitalism pits our short-term needs against our long-term revolutionary goals. Want to go on strike for a living wage? Too risky. Better to have shitty pay than be out of a job. Want to confront your landlord about that black mold problem they’ve been ignoring? Again, too risky. Better to breathe tainted air than to … Continue reading The Power of Alternative Institutions
The Papers Fly
By Wyatt It’s 2:30 a.m. on a cool fall morning. Two hundred sleepy-eyed workers form a line outside the Lincoln Journal Star 10th and Q distribution center. The line of “independent contractors” gather their daily papers while their minds recalculate how fast they will have to work today to meet the 6 a.m. deadline. Some carriers deliver hundreds of papers in that three-hour window, … Continue reading The Papers Fly
Whispering Blue Murder
Police officers almost never get convicted for killing people. by Mark Honey When Zachary Bearheels was kicked off his charter bus last summer, he hadn’t taken his medication. He was bipolar and schizophrenic, and had no idea where he was. Omaha was certainly not Oklahoma, where his mother was waiting for him. Around midnight, hallucinating, he walked west. At the Bucky’s gas station on 60th … Continue reading Whispering Blue Murder
Poems by Amanda R. Huckins
NAMED STUFF EXISTED my newer parts are impressionable. i dont smoke drugs or eat drugs or drink alcohol anymore and midnight is late but not too late to eat mayonnaise out of the jar off one of my fingers. didn’t witness the hit, but witnessed the run. i can see but not the whole thing. i can put on tea and wish i were drunk … Continue reading Poems by Amanda R. Huckins
The Coup in Brazil Marches On
By Rosa Asque When I first spoke to Luiza, I was running my plans to visit South America by her. Brazil was high on my list of places to go. We had met on Instagram a few years prior, and sharing music lead us into talking about life and politics right away. How could it not? The tension was so thick, I could see the … Continue reading The Coup in Brazil Marches On
The Power of Halloween
A Night for Confronting Power By Phil Gillen That night on which the boundary between this world, where we live our meager lives, and the other-world in which the unseen spirits of the dead roam, becomes transparent for a short time, making possible all sorts of odd things, is the night of Halloween. It has come and gone by the time these words are … Continue reading The Power of Halloween
The Triumph 