Category: Writer
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
I delayed writing this reflection until after midnight on Thursday Nov. 5, so essentially early Friday, Nov. 6. As I write, the election of a president has still not as yet been accomplished, even though a clear and insurmountable majority …
People Get Ready
PART’s Perspective: People Get Ready: The Best Defense is a Good Offense by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-Los Angeles/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) Trump’s hospitalization with COVID-19 increases the range of eventualities in the upcoming national election, adding death and …
Book Review: The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer: New York: Riverhead Books, 2019. 512 pp. reviewed by Roxanne-Dunbar-Ortiz, written for Wicazo Sa Review: A Journal of Native American Studies. Editor, James Riding …
We Must Go All the Way This Time
Transforming a culture of solidarity, resistance and liberation into thoroughgoing social, political and economic revolution There is no question that a profound and long-overdue collective self-examination and cultural revolution is now going on in the United States, not uniformly or …
Time for Total Transformation
PART’s Perspective: Time for Total Transformation by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-Los Angeles/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) An undeniable sea change in mass public consciousness and practice has been taking place in the US in the past couple of months. …
Against Repression and Reformism
The Power of the People is the Force of Life by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-LA/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) I was sent the following link to a piece worth reading, if you have the time and a collegiate dictionary, by public …
Stop the Olympics Police State (1984 L.A.)
OLYMPICS 1984: COUNTER-INSURGENCY GOES FOR THE GOLD Prefatory note from 1996: This article, based on research and drafts by Michael Novick, is reprinted from the Spring 1984 issue of BREAKTHROUGH, the political journal of Prairie Fire Organizing Committee, an anti-imperialist …
Letter of Comment on “Empty the Prisons”
Letter of Comment: On “Now Is the Time to Empty the Prisons” I was hopeful when I saw the title of Eve Ottenberg’s editorial (“Now Is the Time to Empty the Prisons”), but after reading it, I was very troubled, …
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Fight for the Future
PART’s Perspective: Fight for the Future by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-Los Angeles/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US, where as we were (belatedly) going to press, the number of cases are the highest …
The World is in Flames and the US is Barely Smoldering
The World is in Flames, and the US is Barely Smoldering by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-L.A. (This appears in the November 2019 issue of Change Links, southern California community calendar and progressive news — www.change-links.org) There are simultaneous protests going …
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LAUSD Teacher Dara Bloom – Sugar Mama of British Neo-Nazis
by James Poulter In August 2017 a gaggle of young neo-Nazis cowered in a lost-luggage storage area in Liverpool’s Lime Street Station. They’d just been surrounded by angry anti-fascists and locals who were preventing a planned fascist march through …
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TTT Vol. 13 #3
PART’s Perspective: Police, Protests, and People’s Power Building Communities of Resistance by Michael Novick The smoke has cleared, figuratively speaking, from the Republican and Democratic Party conventions in Philadelphia and Los Angeles. With, if not the whole world, then at …
ARA Network 1998 – West Coast History
First Wave ARA — West Coast USA The Anti-Racist Action network has western and west coast roots that go back to the first wave of ARA’s in the late 80’s. People Against Racist Terror (PART), a southern California affiliate …
Stop the Olympic Police State
CENTENNIAL OLYMPICS, ATLANTA 1996: COUNTER-INSURGENCY GOES FOR THE GOLD by Michael Novick ( Turning The Tide, V9#2, Summer 1996) Atlanta, GA is gearing up to host the 1996 Summer Olympics, on the 100th anniversary of the founding of the modern Olympic Games. …
TTT Vol. 9 #2 Summer 1996
Centennial Olympics: COUNTER-INSURGENCY GOES FOR THE GOLD CENTENNIAL OLYMPICS, ATLANTA 1996: COUNTER-INSURGENCY GOES FOR THE GOLD by Michael Novick Atlanta, GA is gearing up to host the 1996 Summer Olympics, on the 100th anniversary of the founding of the modern …