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The Sunsetting of MPD150

By Ricardo Levins Morales on November 8, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Tactical choices in tough times

By Ricardo Levins Morales on November 3, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

A Moment of Liberation

By Ricardo Levins Morales on July 14, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

What Time is it on the Clock of the Police Abolition Movement?

By Ricardo Levins Morales on April 22, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Sweet Nothings and the Corporate Cats

By Ricardo Levins Morales on November 5, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Are reforms useful?

By Ricardo Levins Morales on November 1, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

The slave patrol in the classroom

By Ricardo Levins Morales on November 6, 2015 • ( 2 Comments )

The very idea that the rules of the system are rigged is so threatening to the white racial self-image of earned privilege that it cannot be seriously entertained.

That time we sank the Santa Maria

By Ricardo Levins Morales on October 12, 2015 • ( Leave a comment )

In the winter of 1987-88 I was back in Puerto Rico visiting and read that a flotilla of canoes was leaving South America, tracing the Taino migration up the Antilles to Puerto […]

Martin Luther King Goes to the Mall (or WWMD?)

By Ricardo Levins Morales on April 29, 2015 • ( 2 Comments )

“It’s important to make an example out of these organizers, so that this never happens again.” This message was sent to the managers of the Mall of America by Sandra Johnson, the […]

Black Lives at the Mall of America: the long shadow of history

By Ricardo Levins Morales on April 24, 2015 • ( 1 Comment )

In the dock are eleven Black Lives Matter activists fingered by police as the “ringleaders” of a peaceful rally at the Mall of America last December. An additional 25 have been charged […]

History Moves in a Spiral

By Ricardo Levins Morales on April 13, 2015 • ( 1 Comment )

It is not enough to revere those who came before. We must engage them in conversation.

Whites fighting racism: what it’s about

By Ricardo Levins Morales on January 7, 2015 • ( 10 Comments )

Note: I was asked by SURJ (Showing Up for Racial Justice – a group which organizes white folks against racism) to write a few paragraphs offering a perspective on white solidarity. It […]

Ferguson and the long wave

By Ricardo Levins Morales on November 28, 2014 • ( 2 Comments )

At the local Ferguson protest the other night two students from Minneapolis’ South High School talked about the sit-in and walk-out they’d organized, coordinated with other high schools. I realized that forty […]

Community Soil and Exchange Capacity

By Ricardo Levins Morales on July 26, 2014 • ( Leave a comment )

When I think about the East Side Freedom Library I think about dirt. More specifically, about dirt and community and the similar ways they are structured and how those structures determine the […]

Monsanto in the Mirror

By Ricardo Levins Morales on May 28, 2014 • ( Leave a comment )

One of the great inventions of the past hundred and fifty years is the rear-view mirror. It permits us to move forward while remaining aware of where we have come from. As […]

Unity and Division in the Ninth Ward

By Ricardo Levins Morales on November 4, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )
“I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.” Eugene V. Debs

I wasn’t going to say anything aloud about the ninth ward, Minneapolis city council race. I don’t ignore electoral contests exactly but they don’t dominate my attention, either. You see city councils, […]

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