An Interview with Victoria Law
Victoria Law is a freelance journalist and author who covers incarceration. Her books include Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women, Prison By Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular…
Vol. 2 N. 1
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2/01/25 – 4/30/25
Interview
Is it really because we fear the end of democracy?
In the novel I am writing, the protagonist, a preacher of rather progressive and unconventional thought (yes, he is a bit biographical) is reading a novel set in the era of jimcrow Alabama,
Under the Radar Organizing for the Resistance
If you are going to be involved in any sort of resistance activity from peaceful marches to “Luigi” style actions, you would do well to do your organizing off line.
How do you do that?
A New Way Forward
The grand plans we had for Better Than the Times have been derailed by my serious illness. I am in a long struggle to stay alive over the next few years, with chemo and radiation and godknowswhat.
(a lyric micro-essay by Liam Starkey, a writer living in Manchester, United Kingdom)
My first memory of coffee is having an espresso scented silver coffee pot as a child.
We are still open for submissions, and the work of other writers and creators will be featured above my own. So if you have the urge to contribute, please do. For now, the interview with Victoria Law will remain at the top of each issue until something more important comes along. We will remain a left wing publication so don’t bother with MAGA or Heritage Foundation kind of stuff, it wont be published.
Anthony Watkins, publisher
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