- Athena Psyhogios (Henderson) Talks About the Escape Plan to Free Alekos Panagoulis This interview was granted to Demetra Giannopoulou-Gaitanou* for the Athens News Agency-Macedonia Press Agency (ANA–MPA) and was published by ANA-MPA on May 1, 2014, the anniversary of the death of Alekos Panagoulis in 1976. Translation by James C. Henderson orn on January 30, 1929 in Detroit, Michigan, USA, Athena Psyhogios returned to Greece in 1932 […]
- Representative Democracy? REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY? by Scott Thompson onservatives and right libertarians sometimes argue that the United States is supposed to be a republic, not a democracy. According to this argument, a republic is an elected government in which the individual has sovereign rights, and a democracy is a “tyranny of the majority” in which the minority has […]
- 99% Brighid-A Pagan Liberation Theology 99% BRIGHID–A PAGAN LIBERATION THEOLOGY by Scott Thompson he year 2011 saw massive uprisings and popular protests all over the world in the name of democracy and social justice. From October 2011 onward I was personally involved in these struggles as an activist for Occupy Minnesota. Given the reputation of Minneapolis as “Paganistan,” it’s not […]
- Choices CHOICES by Toni Fagerhaugh There he is. I’ve seen him before, standing on the corner under the street light looking at our house. “Who is he?” I ask my mother. She answers, “He’s a bad man. Stay away from him.” I am afraid. My father has gone. It has been months. We do meet him […]
- Occupy Revisited OCCUPY REVISITED by James C. Henderson It’s been over a year since we occupied the Hennepin County Government Center Plaza in Minneapolis, Minnesota. We called it, “The People’s Plaza” and then populated it with liberated people day and night. It’s empty now.
- Building a World That Works for All BUILDING A WORLD THAT WORKS FOR ALL A Speech Given to the Minnesota Alliance of Peacemakers in November 2012 by Scott Thompson he theme of our gathering tonight is “Building a world that works for all.” This phrase is not just a nice thought or a hopeful intention; it’s the whole spirit of Occupy condensed […]
- Emma Lazarus and the Politics of Poetry EMMA LAZARUS AND THE POLITICS OF POETRY by James C. Henderson ark Strand and Eavan Boland, in their book, The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms, say that the sonnet is a poetic form that features “one strong opening statement of eight lines” and then poses an “emotional or intellectual question” […]
- Cultural Succession CULTURAL SUCCESSION by Afterparty Jones from Occupy Vacant Lots of Philadelphia Originally published at Cultural Succession Occupy Vacant Lots Facebook The Movement Grows like the Forests: Cultural Succession ou may have read about – or if yer a seasoned OG (Original Gardener) you may have witnessed – the pattern that emerges over time as forests […]
- What Happened to America? WHAT HAPPENED TO AMERICA? by James C. Henderson t this point, I thought America would be farther along. I did. I really did. I was born in 1955 and grew up in a time when progress was not just a slogan but was being achieved. All the old mistakes, prejudices, and conceits were being swept […]