5LL #44 - Gun Control, Piven, Flowers, Labor, Pete Seeger

Where Is the Left on Gun Control?
Jacob Bacharach, The Outline
Despite the upswing of progressive politics, little has been said about our country’s problem with guns.
This 86-Year-Old Radical May Save (or Sink) the Democrats
Alex Traub, The New York Times
Frances Fox Piven has become the intellectual guru of activist progressives. But not everyone is ready to storm the barricades with her.
We Must Force Our Children To Love Flowers
Nathan Robinson, Current Affairs
If you do not weep with joy in a garden centre, has something gone wrong?
Labor Needs a Party
Paul Blest, Splinter
The United States is unique among Western democracies. We do not, and have never really had, a party of labor.
Happy Birthday, Pete Seeger
Dick Flacks and Peter Dreier, Jacobin
Pete Seeger would have turned 100 today. Few figures in American history have lived as influential and deeply radical lives as he did. Let's celebrate him today.
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