I grew up in East Dearborn, the daughter of Arab immigrants, learning early that my body was always suspect. After the towers fell, my sister and I counted coins from a jar under our shared […]

It’s Memorial Day 2025, a holiday dedicated to U.S. military personnel who died in the line of duty, as opposed to Veterans Day, which is dedicated to those who lived through their service and, in […]

New Work New Culture Reader  Prototype Edition Table of Contents7 Preface  By Frank Joyce  9 Introduction: A Conversation about new work new culture What’s Wrong with “Old” Work? 19 The JOB System  20 Is Progress […]

Data Centers. A buzzword for a phenomenon that is affecting many communities across the Great Lakes Region, these “centers” are warehouse-sized computers that consume enormous amounts of energy and water, disturb local ecologies and economies, […]

Intelligence Is Not Wisdom James W. Perkinson 9-13-25 AI—a gargantuan topic, both as something talked about and as an embodied Subject.  Hard to know how to focus and limit the reflection to a thousand-plus words—especially […]

WSU student encampment for Palestine By Monica Isaac In November of 2010, University students in Dublin descended upon the city center to protest bloated registration fees and cuts to essential school funds. Nearly 40,000 students […]

By Monica Isaac “It is the final triumph of a system of domination when the dominated start singing its virtues.”  Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong’o wrote this as part of a collection of essays in […]

by Monica Isaac I recently heard a clip from a speech with Journalist and Author Chris Hedges proclaiming very solemnly that we, as people living in the US empire, have failed the people of Palestine. […]

In 1977, Audre Lorde wrote a series of questions entitled, “The Audre Lorde questionnaire to oneself”, adapted from The Cancer Journals. In it, she poses a few questions to herself reflecting on transformation, finding language, […]

“We are millions, we are billions, we are all Palestinians!” This chant has been a rallying cry for over 42 days. It has decimated the notion that the world has sided with the apartheid state, […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, NOVEMBER 13th 2023  CONTACT: media@blockcopcity.org  HUNDREDS MARCH TO COP CITY SITE FOR NON-VIOLENT ACTION, POLICE RESPOND WITH TEAR GAS AND FLASHBANGS; FOREST DEFENDERS PREVAIL: CONSTRUCTION STOPPED TODAY  Press Conference and Vigil Scheduled […]

By Monica Isaac Today I watched as a group of resolute Palestinian Children stood in front of Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest medical complex in the Gaza Strip, to hold a press conference. They pled to […]