Contributions by:
Benjamin Shepard
On my way home from one of the crazy trips I took to DC over the Kavanaugh confirmation battle in the fall of 2018, I wondered about all the years of actions in DC. Our trips to fight wars, presidents, and looming fascism, to try to make democracy work for people. Most of the time,…
Read Full Article...Books reviewed: The Pox Lover: An Activist’s Decade in New York and Paris by Anne-christine d’Adesky, (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2017) No Fascist USA! The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today’s Movements by Hilary Moore and James Tracy (San Francisco: City Lights Press, 2020) Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and Future of Addiction by…
Read Full Article...Epidemics expose a great deal about who we are. They always have. Old orders die. New ideas take shape. “There is something deep here connected to what is the real truth about who we really are, not what we are told about ourselves,” says social movement scholar Marina Sitrin. “Yes, we are afraid. Yes, we…
Read Full Article...Movements fly, ascending, descending, ebbing, shifting, with overlapping stories building on each other, ideas crashing across borders. This is what I thought of when I heard about Christophe Broqua’s study Action = Vie: A History of AIDS Activism and Gay Politics in France, the English translation of his history of ACT UP Paris, by Jean-Yves…
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