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I Watched People Jump (opens the original)
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Standing on the rooftop of my Lower East Side tenement, I could make out tiny figures plunging from the burning towers about a mile and a half away as the crow flies.I can still see one figure splitting into two, each one gaining speed at precisely the same rate as they plunged to their deaths.The backstory wasn’t hard to guess. “I’m scared. I can’t jump,” one of them said as the flames burned them. “Hold my hand, we will jump together.” And they did. It was horrible and quick.<a class="image-li
The Anarchist-Style Politics of DSA (opens the original)
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What exactly is the Democratic Socialists of America? It’s not a vanguard party or revolutionary socialist organization. It’s not a single-issue movement. It carries out a lot of electoral campaigns but it’s not a political party like the Democrats or Republicans. It has some similarities with labor unions, or at least the NYC-DSA chapter does, but it does no real labor organizing itself.Then it struck me: DSA* shares a lot of commonalities with what passes for American anarchism. Having reporte
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