By Tallon Kennedy October 1, 2016 Back in September of 2015, The Atlantic produced a piece entitled “The Coddling of the American Mind” about the rise of trigger warnings and safe spaces […]
Safe Spaces and Trigger Warnings: What’s Actually Going on in America’s Classrooms?
Cooperative Principles: Framework for a Democratic Economy
By Jeff Jaeger and Ron Gaydos October 1, 2016 This is the first article in a series of seven that will present fundamental cooperative principles. The Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers in […]
Journey Toward Justice
By Bette McDevitt October 1, 2016 I’ve admired Sister Patricia McCann, of the Pittsburgh Sisters of Mercy, for years, and now I know what makes her tick. “My social justice orientation is […]
The 100th Anniversary of the Battle of the Somme and the Easter Rising in Ireland
By Michael Drohan October 1, 2016 The first day of the Battle of the Somme of World War 1 was July 1, 1916. On that sad day, England suffered 57,400 casualties and […]
White Supremacy Illustrated: Terence Crutcher, Tyre King, Keith Lamont Scott, and Vindication for Colin Kaepernick
Earlier this week, in response to death threats aimed at him for kneeling during the national anthem, Colin Kaepernick said that killing him would only be another example of why his protest […]
Pulse Shooting Survivor Returns Home $600,000 Dollars in Medical Debt
by Tallon Kennedy Pulse shooting survivor, Leonel Melendez, has returned home and is starting rehab. According to NowThis, Melendez was shot in the head, leg, and foot, and lost consciousness, and was […]
Growing Concern About the Link Between Fracking and Earthquakes
By Winnefred Ann Frolik On Saturday, September 3 I received a text from my aunt in Nebraska mentioning that she’d felt an earthquake that morning which shook the bed, an experience she […]
How To Be A Woman, a poem by Tallon Kennedy
Outside of Mr. Smalls, his eyes see the stars and their absence. Light pollution again polluting this light. Angel Olsen polluted the air with questions. Won’t you open a window sometime? I […]
Prison Strike, a poem by Tallon Kennedy
Moving chains across sidewalks. Pots banging on guard rails. A noise made to silence the police sirens in the distance. Distance is what got us here. Distance from our ancestor’s guilt. […]
How Brock Turner’s Pathetic Jail Time is Yet Another Victory for the Straight White Male, and a Devastating Loss for Justice
By Tallon Kennedy September 12, 2016 Brock Turner, rapist convicted of penetrating a drunk unconscious woman was released from jail this Friday after serving only three months of his pathetic six month […]
