Towards a New Abolitionism

Crossposted from The GC Advocate (http://opencuny.org/gcadvocate/).  By guest contributor Jesse A. Myerson, writer, activist and author of the forthcoming 'Onward: An Occupier's Guide to Understanding the Current Crisis When I began to write this essay, there were cars floating on Wall Street. It sounds like some sort of trader lingo, perhaps describing General...

USA scores own goal by moving the goal posts

by nathan thanki There was quite a stink created this week when US Special Envoy for Climate Change (the big-shot who shows up late to the UN climate talks and gets interrupted by his constituents for not truly speaking for them) made a "remark" to his old College, Dartmouth. There was widespread condemnation of the apparent u-turn on US climate policy, which had previously agreed...