5LL #63 - Reparations, Ady Barkan, Occupy Wall Street, Electricity, Kickstarter

What Reparations Might Look Like
Jennifer Epperson, The Outline

How could reparations manifest at an individual and collective level, and what might this say about unrelenting systemic racial inequality?

Ady Barkan Won't Let Dying Stop His Activism
Tim Arango, The New York Times

Democratic presidential candidates are flocking to California to meet Mr. Barkan, who is dying of A.L.S. But the sicker he gets, the more famous he becomes.

Occupy the White House
Jonathan Smucker, The Nation

The Bernie Sanders campaign is the next phase of a movement that started eight years ago in Zuccotti Park.

Whose Grid? Our Grid! Chicago's Campaign to Put Electricity Under Public Control
Alex Schwartz, In These Times

A democratically owned electric utility could fast-track the city’s transition to clean energy.

Who's the Shop Steward on Your Kickstarter?
Josh MacPhee, The Baffler

Kickstarter cultivates the illusion that when you use its fundraising tools, you are opting out of wage labor.

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