When the corona virus first hit, my reaction was that it was going to provoke tremendous social change. Diseases spread when populations are treated as disposable production units not living beings. I was sure that the pandemic was going to expose long-standing inhumane working and living conditions. But it took radical widespread protests for the […]
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It is unfortunate that speaking out on racism makes me a target for all factions of racism. There are people of color, including my half-brother, who insist that I am an outsider who cannot possibly understand their experiences. So I have thought long and hard about posting any of my own experiences. There is nearly […]
To protect those I mention in this post I am purposefully vague about dates, places and people. Never the less, this is a true report of one of my first-hand experiences with the (UN)Civil Guard and those like them. It began nearly twenty years ago when I met a woman whose son had gotten caught […]