The Care(ful) Work of Abolishing Prisons
How to kick our national addiction to prisons.
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Issues
Where鈥檚 the Humanity in Intercountry Adoption?
An adult adoptee shines a light on the system of international adoption.
Black History, Unearthed
鈥滱 Darker Wilderness鈥� explores the relationship of Black folks to nature and to the state.
Inspiration: Haruki Murakami
鈥淲hat lasts, lasts; what doesn't, doesn鈥檛.鈥�
精东影业 Issue Contributors
Jonita Davis is the film critic, writer, and pop culture junkie behind the online publication The Black C.A.P.E. magazine. She is also a published author, English professor, and podcaster. Her
Reckoning With Tradition
Can we create new traditions that honor where we've been and help guide us where we need to go?
Why I Give
Leslie Lewis is a faculty member at the University of California, San Diego. She has been reading 精东影业 since 2014. What kind of work and/or volunteering do you do? I
The Work Issue
I am privileged to be able to say that I love the work I do. I find meaning, purpose, and even a sense of identity in my work here at 精东影业 Media. But I also know that, compared to many people in this country, I am in the minority.
The Past, Present, and Future of Work
Our work environment is deeply dysfunctional. But making systemic change requires understanding how we got here.
Undergrads Fight for Their Right to Organize
Long-underpaid undergrad students who work on campus are increasingly seeing the value of their labor and organizing unions.
Can Unions Still Transform the Workplace?
Young workers, women, and people of color are combining digital innovation with old-school face-to-face organizing to build a new labor movement.
The Caf茅 That鈥檚 Upending Capitalism
Cafe Euphoria isn鈥檛 just another co-op. Its trans and gender-nonconforming owners are pursuing a vision of radical equality.
Labor and Climate Form a More Perfect Union
Environmental and labor activists have found success collaborating at the local and state levels. Now they have their eyes on federal policy.
Child Care: Invaluable and Undervalued
Direct payments to home-based child care providers can sustain them and the essential work they do to care for the children of working Americans.
The Job Is Not My Work
Our profit-driven health care system pushes workers to the breaking point. What would it look like to take back our power?
To Transform Work, We Must Rest
Rest is not antithetical to work. We cannot imagine work without it.
The Future of Work Is No Work
Activists have long suggested that oppressive institutions should be abolished rather than reformed. The same could be said about labor.
The Benefits of Berries
Late summer and fall offer a bounty of berries bursting with flavor鈥攁nd healing potential.
Terra Affirma: The River Reclaims
Landscape endures even when the infrastructure of hubris cannot.
Beyond Decolonization
These activists are working to ensure Indigenous perspectives are included in fields as diverse as education, health care, and scientific research.
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