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Saturday Reading List

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NJ Domestic Workers 1 Step Closer to Protections

TBT: Astroturf is Bad for Baseball and Politics

The Bully Pulpit

Monday Music: Random Notes

Sunday Poem: ‘Certainties and Uncertainties’

Saturday Reading List: More on Israel and Gaza

Thursday Op-Ed: In Defense of Academic Freedom

Stefanik Uses Jews to Grandstand

Sunday Poem: 'White Fish'

Saturday Reading List

Share the Land

Flickerings

‘Iron fist, a steel heart’

Sunday Poem: On Gaza and Israel

Targum Commentary: RU's Austerity Schtick

Permanent Scars

The Progressive: RWJ Nurses Still on Strike

Rough Notes on Hostages & ‘Human Shields’

Audio Commentary: Confusion and Sadness

TBT: Predicting the Bubble's Burst

PP Preview: Nurses Fight the Power

Respecting Uncertainty

Sunday Night Reading List

Sunday Poem: On Empire

A Little Less than Divine

Ceding the Moral High Ground

Comments on 'War Crimes'

Audio Update: On the Nurses' Picket

War Crimes

Unions are Power

Brief First Thoughts on the Hamas Attacks (Audio)

Friday Union Update: D-Backs Cross the Picket

TBT: Beggars Can Be Choosers

Alice is in the House!

Brief Follow on Nurses Strike

Friday Union Update: UAW, WGA, and New Brunswick Nurses

Menendez is Evidence of Broken System

Press Critique: Times Turns Focus to Senator’s Wife

Taking Sides

I’m Interviewed in New Labor Forum

Grassroots: Surfing the Strike Wave

Monday Music: The Stones Are Back

Sunday Poem: Echoes from Earlier Wars

A Brief Weekend Reading List

What Are Words For

TBT: Difficult Decisions

Holding the Strings in Our Hands

RWJ Nurses Fight for Better Care

Tiny Fingers

TBT: The Man in Black

Monday Music: Labor Day Edition

Poem: Kitamatsu, Shaft No. 8

Saturday Reading List

Monday Music: Live Stiffs Live Stiffs Live Stiffs Live

Poem: Here Comes Spider-Man

Poem: It Is Love

Poem: Akeidah

Monday Music: The Vapors

Poem: Capital City

A State of Ill Health

Saturday Photo

TBT (cont.): It's Still a Gas

TBT: A Matter of Race Mattering

The Nuclear Debate

Literary Losses

What Price Liberty

Music Monday: Banging on Their Drums

Affirmative Action Needed on the Court

Reconsidering ‘Independence Day’

Happy Belated Birthday, Willie Nile

Healthcare for Adjuncts Now

We Fight Together

TBT: Not Just Theoretical

Anti-LGBTQ+ is Anti-Citizenship

TBT: In Praise of Small Insurgencies

Debt Deal Offers Guns, but No Butter

Prioritize Human Needs not Corporate Greed

Happy Birthday, Mr. Jones

Press Narrative Turns 'Migrants' Into Threats

Victory at Rutgers, But the Fight Continues

RU Strike: An Interview With Tempest Magazine

TBT: Notes on Unequal Justice

Podcast Alert: A Conversation On Academic Strikes

Rutgers' Uprising at The Progressive

Poetry Reading at SB Public Library

Annotations on the National Mood

Monday Music: An Archetypical Riff

Socialism for the Rich

Photo Essay: Post Strike Day 4

Post-Strike Diary: Wake Up Rutgers

The Fetish for Firearms

Post-Strike Diary: A Step Back and Some History

Post-Strike Diary: Rutgers Unions Fight On

RU Strike Diary, Day 5 Ends With a 'Framework'

RU Strike Diary, Day 4

RU Strike Update, Day 3

Day 3, Keeping Up the Pressure

RU Strike Diary, Day 2 Post Mortem

From the Line, Day 2

RU Strike Diary, Day 1 Post Mortem

RU Strike Diary, Day 1

Challenging Austerity

The Soros Slur

Monday Music: Another Band that Mattered

TBT: War and Its Aftermath

Prose Poem: Las Vegas from the Backseat of a Lyft

Grassroots: Eco-Terrorism, Corporate Style

We R Strike Ready

Quick Note

Reading Merton and Ferlinghetti as War Rages in Ukraine

My Response to Holloway

Music Monday: With Guitars

Why I’m Strike Ready

TBT: It Was 20 Years Ago

Monday Music: And They Danced

All Aboard the Strike Train

RU Budget Address A Nutrient-Free Offering

TBT: Remembering the Great Recession

For the Labor Movement, There Is No Substitute for Activism

Fighting Back Against the Neo-Liberal University

Adjuncts: the Gig Workers of Higher Education

Temp Workers Get a Win

Music Monday: Some 'Words from the Front'

A Marvelously Militant Moment for Labor

Are We On a Slippery Slope to War

Thoughts on a Lost Poet

Academic Freedom Requires Job Security

Grassroots Preview: Free Speech, not Corporate Control

New Year’s Poem