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 Vol. 084 Issue 006 (December 1 2020)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Carrying the Torch
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EDITOR’S NOTE CARRYING THE TORCH
A simple truth of magazine publishing is that it does not take place, like so much else, at the speed of light. There is a lag, especially for monthly and...
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The Damage Done, the Job Ahead
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LUEDERS, BILL
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COMMENT by BILL LUEDERS THE DAMAGE DONE, THE JOB AHEAD
T he damage done by Donald Trump will not end with his presidency. It will take years, perhaps generations, to flush out the toxins he...
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Armed and Dangerous
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Roberts, Zach D.
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ON THE LINE by ZACH D. ROBERTS ARMED AND DANGEROUS
America was built on armed protest—it is how the nation was founded. I’ve covered protests in America for the last twenty years. But it...
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NO COMMENT
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NO COMMENT Their Best, Their Brightest Lawyers defending the Illinois teen charged with shooting three protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin (killing two of them), are portraying their client as a...
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LETTERS
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LETTERS Thoroughly Disgusted, and Still Supportive On receiving your October/November 2020 issue, I felt thoroughly disgusted by your focus on Trump’s sociopathic actions over the past four...
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BLAST FROM THE PAST
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BLAST FROM THE PAST A NEW PRESIDENT An editorial in the December 1960 issue of The Progressive set an agenda for the nation’s newly elected President, John F. Kennedy. Here’s a taste: T he...
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Madison Cawthorn Is Not My Wheelchair Brother
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Ervin, Mike
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SMART ASS CRIPPLE by MIKE ERVIN MADISON CAWTHORN IS NOT MY WHEELCHAIR BROTHER I should be ecstatic, but instead I feel cheated. On Election Day, the voters of North Carolina’s Eleventh...
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A Bridge to a New Era
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Conniff, Ruth
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MIDDLE AMERICA by RUTH CONNIFF A BRIDGE TO A NEW ERA
W e were in the backyard with our teenage girls, enjoying one last warm, socially distanced evening with friends who also have teenage...
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American Carnage: An Index
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SMOKING GUN AMERICAN CARNAGE: AN INDEX
Here are some metrics of the United States after four years of Donald Trump: Unemployment rate in January 2017, when Trump took office: 4.8 percent....
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The Graying of Mass Incarceration
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Law, Victoria
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Graying
The of Mass Incarceration Prisons, ill-suited for providing health care, are facing an explosion of elderly inmates. BY VICTORIA LAW MARY FISH turned sixty-eight in September....
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A Hunger for Justice
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Feltz, Renée
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In March, a man detained at the Tacoma ICE Processing Center in Washington State began showing COVID-19-like symptoms. He was vomiting as guards removed him, and others in his unit took notice....
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'Transformative Change' Proves Elusive
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Lahm, Sarah
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‘Transformative Change’ Proves Elusive Police reform efforts falter in
Minneapolis, yet hope persists.
BY SARAH LAHM ROBIN WONSLEY WORLOBAH has an incredibly busy schedule these days. The...
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Rebel Cops
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Schivone, Gabbriel
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My Students, the Police
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Bader, Eleanor J.
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Eleanor Bader is a freelance writer from Brooklyn, New York, who writes about education, domestic social justice movements, books, and art. My Students,the Police I t’s the .rst day of the...
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Losing Your Health Care to COVID-19
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Johnson, Sharon
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Losing Your Health Care to
COVID-19
The pandemic has forced workers off of employer-sponsored plans and into the unknown. FOR MORE THAN FORTY-FIVE YEARS, Shirley Smith has been a dedicated...
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Students on Strike
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McMenamin, Lexi
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STUDENTS ON STRIKE
COVID-19 has sparked a new wave of activism.
BY LEXI MCMENAMIN
From public institutions like the University of Iowa and the University of Massachusetts Boston, to...
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ONE QUESTION
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Schenwar
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ONE QUESTION K AGBEBIYI Organizer, social worker, and co-author of the 8 to Abolition
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As I was introduced to organizing a little bit before the .rst wave of BLM protests...
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Making Black Lives Matter at School
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Hagopian, Jesse
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BOOK EXCERPT Making Black Lives Matter at School
The national movement has four key demands to eliminate racism in education. BY JESSE HAGOPIAN
Advocates for justice know that racism in...
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Bad Leadership Drove Schools into Crisis
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Bryant, Jeff
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Bad Leadership DroveSchools into Crisis COVID-19 exposed how important teachers are to students and families—but politicians and policy leaders are still not listening to them. BY JEFF...
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Red Alert
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Nash, Stephen
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Not long ago, I rolled into windblown Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge, seeking to renew an old acquaintance—with a program aimed at rescuing the red wolf, a critically endangered species,...
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'It's Not a Sprint, It's a Marathon'
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Miyasaki, Jan
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INTERVIEW ‘It’s Not a Sprint,
It’s a Marathon’
Kevin Alexander Gray on the
importance of organizing
between elections.
BY JAN MIYASAKI K evin Alexander Gray, a contributor to and...
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Favorite Books of 2020
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BOOKS Ruth Conniff Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson’s epic account of the Great Migration, The Warmth of Other Suns, was the deeply reported...
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Our Exceptionally Unexceptional Future
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Farsad, Negin
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HEMMING AND HAWING by NEGIN FARSAD OUR EXCEPTIONALLY UNEXCEPTIONAL FUTURE
I t’s May 2021. Joe Biden has been President for four months, presiding over a somewhat divided government. There’s a...
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How We Can Do Better
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Higgins, Maeve
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MAEVE IN AMERICA by MAEVE HIGGINS HOW WE CAN DO BETTER
I t has long been known that American exceptionalism is little more than a marketing ploy, yet the world cannot look away from this...
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The Sound of Silence
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Zirin, Dave
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EDGE OF SPORTS by DAVE ZIRIN THE SOUND OF SILENCE
I n May, sportswriter Jane McManus tweeted that “sports are the result of a functioning society,” a comment quickly echoed by others. It is...
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Saving It Is This Real
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Ostriker, Alicia
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POEMS by ALICIA OSTRIKER SAVING IT Some think the world can be saved by love some think it can be saved by intelligence It is the old quarrel of the heart and the head each of which would be...
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After the Election, a Note of Hope
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Hightower, Jim
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VOX POPULIST by JIM HIGHTOWER AFTER THE ELECTION, A NOTE OF HOPE
M any years ago, literary critic Dorothy Parker skewered an unfortunate author with the apocryphal line: “This is not a...
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