... with her young life. A tragic junkie and I were the only native English speakers. I’d recently left a bad marriage and had many financial and personal worries that kept me up at night, but I spent an inordinate amount of time grappling with the word for what I was doing. One night, I awakened from...

..., then I’d add not a thing to his pain within that aloneness— not the torment of death, and not the sorrow of passing away. Instead I’d be content to ignore him when I passed him by on the street—as I convinced myself that paying him no attention in itself was a kind of revenge. — Nazareth, April...

... with." - (Former bundler, Sayles Finishing Plant) The annual oattng o$ the sruperintendents and foremen, June 1923 "And, of course, we had a very close familiarity there. I think I knew everybody's name in the whole plant. And I'd know if they had...

.... Ellen Noonan of the Radical History Review editorial collective conducted the interview on June 13, 2000, at Wallace’s home in Brooklyn. Ellen: I’d like to start by talking about your career at the City University of New York [CUNY]. How long have you been...

... it a fascinating society. But they were training us as historians at Wisconsin so really the issue came down to the fact that if you’re going to work in twentieth century Russian history you’re smack up against the basic source problem. So I decided I’d work on American foreign policy. But I wrote...

.... The formative lesson of those years for me was less an abiding Marxism than it was an abiding political mentality. RHR: What happened when you got to Brandeis? JS: I quickly sought out ”political” people. Some were friends I’d known at camp, others were people who shared my views. I remem- ber...

... clearly, “My God, that’s an American.” I mean, that’s not no Afro-American, that’s not no black—that’s a straight-up American. And I heard that, not just the accent, but the emphasis on certain things, you know: the “com- mander in chief.” I’d never heard a black...

... their church in social justice. Our congregation basically had, I’d say, of the forty people, maybe ten to fifteen of them would have said they were not Christians. Maybe twenty-five said they were Christians. In fact, that was one of the big internal things of how we would go about establishing our...

... move out of academia. “I was very clear. I’d left Wye College. I’d never seen the landed gentry before I’d got to Wye College. I was a Birmingham lad, and then I came across this lot. Bloody hell.” From his work at the BSSRS, Clutterbuck built a career working with trade unions, largely...

... to read a lot, and I was impressed by what I'd read about the United Steelworkers. But I thought that was basic steel only. I was reading about Phil Murray and John L. Lewis, and Walter Reuther. In those days, you could look up to this leadership, just read- ing...

... of a Textile Town. A Booklet Commemorating the Second Massachusetts History Workshop, Lawrence, Massachusetts, October 12, 1980 (Boston, n.d 6-8, 20-24. Contrast this setting with Marion, North Carolina, where Rosa Holland said of the 1934 strike defeat: “If I’d been in the union right along, you see...

... and then outside of the tepees was this corn. And I just thought, good Lord! And then right next to it there were these people from some place like North or South Dakota building a sod house. I’d never seen a sod house. During this two-weekend fes- tival, if you came every day you witnessed this house...

..., formal meet- ings, to discuss the politics of the country. And we wrote the occasional letter to the newspaper and things like that. But it was a series of experiences like that that made me decide that I wasn’t going to go on with physics. I’d also become involved in the Africa Society at Oxford...

... a long time because of the many friends and acquaintances we have in common. Recently I also met Uday Singh Mehta. I’d read his Liberalism and Empire: India in British Liberal Thought (University of Chicago, 1999) this summer in Calcutta and it had made...

...Empower [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by MARHO: The Radical Historians’ Organization, Inc. 2024 The word trafficking is a powerful word that stops normally sensible people from thinking clearly. It is a word that makes sure we are not seen or heard. I’d prefer not to use...

... BY CROOKS," and "I'd be embarrassed if a domestic crook and a war criminal like Nixon endorsed my book."2 Szilagyi had been blind-sided by the backlash. In the following collection of counter-obituaries, then, our goal is to contribute to the backlash that is already well in progress against...

... was perfect and plus if they had lots of experience and knowledge of Jerusalem, I’d accept them. But I’d be a bit more sensitive about what groups I’d give them or wouldn’t give them. A museum in Israel automatically becomes a place for “find[ing] . . . Jewish iden­ tity” — even the Tower of David...

... were genuinely taking career risks in a way I was not. I'm not saying my career was unaffected by my coming out. It very definitely was. One concrete example: I used to be able to literally pick up the phone and call the New York Times Book Revim and say "I'd like to review this new book...

...://alqaws.org/siteEn/index (accessed March 15 , 2023 ). ASWAT . “ Palestinian Feminist Center for Gender and Sexual Freedoms .” https://www.aswatgroup.org/home (accessed March 15 , 2023 ). Ben David Tamar , and Ben David Lilach . “ ‘I’d Rather Die in the West Bank’: LGBTQ...

... Infirmary. I’d like to begin by to asking you about the term harm reduction and how it came to be a guiding methodology of care for sex workers. Naomi Akers : I first heard about harm reduction at Promise, in the mid-nineties. I had always been interested in drug policy as well, and I’ve always felt...