I saw the most amazing play yesterday. I left the theater, feeling chilled, with prickles erupting across my skin. Of course, this being Berkeley, two elder women, white with gray hair, exited ahead of me, talking loudly: “Well, there were so many problems…with the wardrobe. I mean, really! First, Irina’s dress wasn’t pressed.” “No, really?” [...]
The Great Rehearsal: A symposium and week of events on the World Revolution of ’68 and its legacies September 17-25 www.greatrehearsal.org 1968 was a world revolution. From Mexico City to Tokyo, Paris to Prague, Columbia University to Berkeley, it was a revolutionary event that at once failed and transformed the world. The process it put [...]
We’re all subprime now, so says the general consensus by economists while the Fed bails out Bear Stearns and provides corporate welfare to the tune of over $13 billion daily $28 billion in just three days. How did this happen, I and David Leonhardt ask? Steve Randy Waldman tries to explain it to us: Alice, [...]
Yvonne Yen Liu is a nerd for the racial justice movement. She lives in Oakland, California. You can write to her at yvonnegrapher at gmail dot com.
Yvonne Yen Liu is a nerd for the racial justice movement. She lives in Oakland, California. You can write to her at yvonnegrapher at gmail dot com.