"Taking Back Chinatown": A look back at when Chinatown was radical. (CultureStrike, December 2013).
Also listen to an accompanying audio feature on WBAI's Asia Pacific Forum.
"A Deluge of Sewage in Palestine, but Still No Water" (Guernica, December 2013)
"Chinatown: the next front in the gentrification war." (The Guardian, November 2013)
Also listen to an accompanying audio feature on WBAI's Asia Pacific Forum.
"A Deluge of Sewage in Palestine, but Still No Water" (Guernica, December 2013)
"Chinatown: the next front in the gentrification war." (The Guardian, November 2013)
Twilight years less lonely for New York's LGBTs feature on Al Jazeera America (November 2013), with a slideshow(!) on New York's growing LGBT senior community.
Talking about Bangladesh garment workers with Mark Provost on The Real News Network (October 2013).
"Rethinking Care": Care labor and aging with dignity. (Jacobin, October 2013).
"Rhyming with Two Tongues": Kilusan Bautista's hyrid spoken word. (CultureStrike, September 2013)
"War Stories": Korea's "Comfort Women" still struggling for recognition. (CultureStrike, August 2013).
Discussing food safety and food workers on Attitude with Arnie Arnesen, a New Hampshire based radio show, June 2013.
Some clips from discussions on Huffington Post Live:
40K Cashiers:
Inflating the Minimum Wage:
Further Reading:
Who Started the Fires in Sweden? Riots in a Nordic wonderland. (Truthout, June 2013)
Opening Taksim Square: Unrest in Istanbul. (Dissent, June 2013)
Promoting Human Rights versus Promoting Prostitution: PEPFAR’s anti-prostitution “loyalty oath” is hindering aid groups’ efforts to help sex workers. (The American Prospect, May 2013)
Invisible Immigrants: What Will Immigration Reform Mean for Migrant Women? (Dissent, April 2013)
The Landscapes of Border Resistance: Walls, citizenship, identity. (Jacobin, April 2013)
Invisible Workers, Global Struggles: From the home to the streets, domestic workers organize to counter abusive job conditions. (The American Prospect, January 2013)
Wallflower: Lady Pink’s World (originally published in CultureStrike, 2012)
It’s not just forced ultrasound: Abortion rights under assault: An investigation into the politics and ethics of state abortion restrictions, supported by the Nation Institute. (Salon, October 2012)
Editorial Cartoons in the Black Press During World War II (Sociological Images, July 2012)
ConEdison Puts New York's Power at Risk During Heat Wave with Lockout of Workers (Alternet, July 2012)
Two Years After Haiti's Earthquake, Women Are Still Shattered by Sexual Exploitation (The Nation, February 2012)
Banana Republic Legacy Thrives in Today’s Latin America (In These Times, February 2012)
America’s healthcare crisis hits minority seniors—and things are getting worse.
No Country for Old People (In These Times, October 2011)
Is the perversion of our environment morphing little girls' bodies?
Little Girl Lost: Early Puberty Hides Environmental Injustice (On The Issues, Spring 2011)
"Arab Spring" Blossoms Around the Globe
The Wave of Popular Uprisings Has Washed Beyond the Middle East (Colorlines, February 2011)
News flash: Public workers are not the anti-Christ:
The Truth About Civil Servants (In These Times, October 2010)
Anti-abortion laws are literally insane:
It’s Not Abortion That Drives You Mad, It’s the Law (Ms. Blog, September 2010)
Why inequity grows despite "development":
One Step Forward, Two Steps Apart on UN’s Development Goals (ColorLines, September 2010)
The face of endless war:
Time Pictures Afghan Women, Obscures Realities of Endless War (ColorLines, August 2010)
The government finally acknowledges modern-day slavery in the United States:
Slavery in Our Time (In These Times, August 2010)
On Haiti:
- The Total Failure of Global Aid in Haiti (ColorLines, October 2010)
- Rebuilding Haiti: The Job Everybody and Nobody Wants (In These Times, July 2010)
- In Haiti, a Miami Transplant Seeks New Horizons (ColorLines, July 2010)
- The Women of Haiti Still in Rubble (ColorLines, July 2010) Women's Health in Haiti:
- "Tomorrow" is a Distant Future (RH Reality Check, July 2010)
Going mental:
An Uncle Breaks the Silence (In the Fray, June 2010)
Welfare reform and the punishment of the poor:
It’s time to restore the social safety net (Progressive Media Project, June 2010)
Poor Families Still Falling Through the Cracks in Welfare Reform (Huffington Post, June 2010)
Reclaiming the City from developers:
New York Sits on Empty Housing While the Poor Face Displacement (Huffington Post, June 2010)
The Pacific War continues: American Occupation Casts Long Shadows Over Okinawa (Common Dreams, June 2010)
The denuclearization of the American family:
Farewell, June Cleaver: ‘Non-Traditional Families’ and Economic Opportunity (In These Times, May 2010)
Anti-immigrant hysteria in the Sunbelt:
- McCain Ad Promotes “Danged” Fence He Once Thought Danged Dumb (Racewire, May 2010)
- SB 1070’s Impact on Kids: Broken Families and America’s Soul (Racewire, May 2010)
- Immigration Law and Disorder (Colorlines.com, May 2010)
- Will Police Hate Arizona's Anti-Immigrant Law, Too? (Huffington Post, April 2010)
Of apartheid and power plants:
Turning schools into warzones:
"The 'school to prison pipeline' must end" (Progressive Media Project, January 2010)
We could all use a day off this week... permanently: "Same Work, More Play" (In These Times, January/February 2010)
The bloody truth behind "humane labeling" in the livestock industry:
"Making Farms Friendlier: Watchdogs Expose Myth Behind “Humane” Food Labeling" (Women's International Perspective, January 2010)
Interview on climate change, migration, and the media:
Michelle Chen on Copenhagen, Joe Conason on ACORN videos (Counterspin, December 2009)
Poor American communities facing meltdown:
"Falling Through the Climate Gap" (In These Times, August 2009)
Higher learning under siege:
"Public higher ed imperiled across US" (Clarion, Summer 2009, p. 4).
Hyperlocal media on the rise:
"Local Heroes: A new media model may be right around the corner--literally" (Extra!, July 2009)
