Stories

"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)

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)

More scribblings

Other odds and ends:

A new collection of poems published by the lovely people at Red Bird Chapbooks. 

Some more poems.

Discussing affirmative action on Radio in Black and White on WPRR in Grand Rapids.

Discussion of Labor Rising on Now with Alex Wagner.

Discussing Occupy and labor on KPFA's Saturday Morning Talkies.

Independent Sources: Discussing women and the economic recession with economist Heather Boushey.

My attempt at wonky chit-chat on GritTV's media roundtable.

Globetrotting at IntheFray Magazine.

Live at the Village Vanguard.

Bad poetry--but not just any bad poetry: mine! More here in Foliate Oak.

My alter-ego as a PR person for the family business.