Four years ago, Barcelona voters made international news when they chose Ada Colau, a young feminist and housing rights activist, to be mayor of Spain’s second largest city. Colau was backed by Barcelona En Comu, a social movement coalition opposed
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Six Unusual Veterans Ponder Active Duty and Its Aftermath  It happens all the time in small towns and big cities across the country. A young person from a poor or working-class family can’t find a good job or afford to
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Peter’s Cole’s Dockworker Power (Illinois; $35) looks at the history of “dockers” in Durban, South Africa, which sits on the Indian Ocean, and dockworkers San Francisco, which sits in a place we all know very well. The comparisons and the
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The Racist, Reactionary World of Bigtime Sports I’ve been a sports fan since the early 1960’s. And it’s harder than ever to justify loyalty to a sports world whose approach toward African-American athletes remains reactionary and often racist. If you
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Mention the two words “Black Panther” to anyone under the age of 40, and they’re likely to think, right off the bat, of the 2018 action, adventure film Black Panther. They’re not likely to think of the Black Panthers of
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“I ain’t never been to San Francisco. But I believe a thing has happened there” – Tony Joe White, “Soul San Francisco” The American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald observed in his 1936 book The Crack Up that, “The test of
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The Divided City: Poverty and Prosperity in Urban America by Alan Mallach In his preface to The Divided City, Adam Mallach says he would not be addressing “New York and San Francisco, or the half-dozen or so hot coastal cities
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Pia Guerra’s Image Comics collection “Me The People” makes a timely appearance for Americans numbed and traumatized by the venality and mendacity of Trump’s America.  The visible wincing and sometimes loud laughter Guerra’s images evoke will reassure these readers that
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