Category: Opinion
CHECK IT OUT: Police sensitivity training: DC Trans Coalition fights for transgender rights
| May 8, 2012 | Posted by Laya Monarez under Opinion, Print Issues, Stories, Volume 2, Issue 3 (May/June 2012) |
Imagine you are in your teens or twenties and your family no longer wants you at home. Then your friends desert you and you can’t find a job. You are out of options and left on the streets, perhaps having to perform sex work to pay your bills, possibly leading to an encounter with police.… more
EDITORIAL: The gears of democracy are turning
| April 29, 2012 | Posted by Coulter Loeb under Opinion, Print Issues, Volume 2, Issue 2 (March/April 2012) |
Since Occupy DC was evicted from McPherson Square, I’ve been sleeping in a college house known as Porterhaus – a short walk away from American University. I was eager to see how American University General Assembly (AU-GA) functioned since some of my roommates are involved. After months spent standing in the metropolitan assemblies of Cincinnati… more
EDITORIAL: Health workers occupy to fight for jobs: Occupy Chicago joins with nurses, doctors to save clinic
| April 27, 2012 | Posted by Aaron Cynic and Natalie W. under Opinion, Print Issues, Volume 2, Issue 3 (May/June 2012) |
The following is an edited excerpt from a piece originally published on diatribemedia.com. The authors describe the actions taken by workers at the Woodlawn Mental Health Clinic in Chicago after budget cuts shut down two city clinics and threatened four more. The editors of the D.C. Mic Check felt the spirit of joyous revolt –… more
EDITORIAL: A balanced approach to organizing: Anti-Oppression and economic justice go hand-in-hand
| April 7, 2012 | Posted by Mike Isaacson under Opinion, Print Issues, Volume 2, Issue 2 (March/April 2012) |
Perhaps one of the greatest obstacles to overcome in checking one’s privilege is the luxury of not having to recognize its existence at all. Certainly, there are obvious ways in which privilege manifests itself in society at large – education, health care, the legal system, etc. But there are many ways in which oppression of… more
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