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A Generational Love Letter to Western Hills Mall
Despite the promises made, renovations announced, and significant economic impact predicted, the Western Hills Mall project has offered nothing more than silence, abandonment, and a community left to figure out what comes next without a say in the matter.
Transplant Wars: From Bankhead to "Upper Westside"
Over time, Bankhead's reputation as underdeveloped and unsafe became about the people who lived there and the conditions they were left to navigate.
We Cannot Abandon Cuba
Whereas imperialist propaganda dehumanizes entire people by reducing them to the worst (and often exaggerated) aspects of their government, Cubans are able to distinguish the contradictions between the U.S. empire and the people domestically subjected to its repression.
Defrost the Home Depot
The DTHD coalition is putting pressure on Home Depot to: denounce ICE activity in its stores and parking lots; express support for customers, workers, and day laborers; and create policies to keep ICE agents from conducting raids or entering stores without warrants.
The Assassinated Word: Kanafani at 54
The same logic that bombed a novelist's car in 1972 is now embedded in today's content moderation policies, platform architecture, large language model training data, and the deliberate severing of a fibre-optic cable.
Pedagogy of the Southern Worker
The Union of Southern Service Workers (USSW) is an organization of workers in the low-wage, high-turnover service industry of the U.S. South, with members in North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, and Georgia. From the beginning, the union has placed political education at the center of its strategic vision. USSW understands that to transform workplaces and…