April 2012
5 posts
“Because we are un-waged, we are the imminent shock absorbers of every economic...”
– Selma James
Listen: Many on the left see the working class as the primary agent of radical change. Where does this leave people like housewives and others whose work goes uncompensated? Selma James sees unwaged work as crucial to capitalism’s operation and continuation. She addresses the...
“The ACT UP Oral History Project is a collection of interviews with surviving...”
– ACTUP Oral History Project
listen: AIDS and Gentrification
AIDS and Gentrification (Listen to this Program) It’s only been a decade and a half since the height of the AIDS epidemic. Yet there’s profound amnesia about what happened during those years, in which hundreds of thousands of people died in this country, ignored by a government that only helped those with the disease after being forced through direct action. Writer Sarah Schulman...
