This year, the second day of the Athens Human Rights Festival coincides with International Workers Day, or May Day. This workers holiday is a time to show unity with workers at home and abroad. Athens will commemorate May Day 2016 with a Workers for Human Rights march. In Georgia, workers […]
Monthly Archives: April 2016
In her book, The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander argues that the criminal justice system in the US functions as a system of racial control as oppressive as any in the segregated south of bygone eras. In her opinion, it does so even while claiming to uphold the law impartially […]
Newly released plans show that a parking lot for the new CCSD offices may be built on the current West Broad Garden location with the garden being moved and diminished to only 30% of the current size. Serious concerns are arising around the future of the West Broad Garden due […]
“Commons could be a way to understand not only what is at stake but also how to get there. I believe that we need to create forms of collective struggle that match collective emancipatory aims, forms that can also show us what is worthy of dreaming about an emancipated future.” […]