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Dec 12, 2024 | 
scalawagmagazine.org | Julian Rose
I have been asked for a plan for dealing with current and coming political threats many times, and I've always felt that these requests had anti-democratic undertones. I could respond with some ideas, of course, but one individual's grand plan for shifting The Left's relationship to American elections means nothing to me. I believe that we need to know what people are willing to commit to in real life to create a real plan.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
scalawagmagazine.org | Julian Rose
With the 2024 presidential election now over, we owe it to ourselves to find any ground truths left to hold onto. Just as the world does, just as the DNC and the GOP continue to do, factions of "The Left" attempt to discipline—or, what they call "organize"—the South and its Black communities into obedience.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
blackagendareport.com | Roberto Sirvent |Garrett Felber |Julian Rose |Gerald Horne
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Sam C. Tenorio. Tenorio is Assistant Professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and the Department of African American Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. His book is Jump: Black Anarchism and Antiblack Carcerality. Roberto Sirvent: How can your book help BAR readers understand the current political and social climate? Sam C.
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Dec 12, 2023 | 
blackagendareport.com | Roberto Sirvent |Julian Rose |Raymond Turner |David Swanson
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Joy James. Dr. James is Ebenezer Fitch Professor of Humanities at Williams College. Her book is New Bones Abolition: Captive Maternal Agency and the (After)life of Erica Garner. Proceeds from New Bones Abolition: Captive Maternal Agency and the (After)Life of Erica Garner go to Prison Radio.
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Dec 12, 2023 | 
blackagendareport.com | Roberto Sirvent |Julian Rose |Raymond Turner |David Swanson
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Joy James. Dr. James is Ebenezer Fitch Professor of Humanities at Williams College. Her book is New Bones Abolition: Captive Maternal Agency and the (After)life of Erica Garner. Proceeds from New Bones Abolition: Captive Maternal Agency and the (After)Life of Erica Garner go to Prison Radio.
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Sep 19, 2023 | 
blackagendareport.com | Raymond Turner |Margaret Kimberley |Roberto Sirvent |Julian Rose
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Celeste Winston. Winston is Assistant Professor of Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University. Her book is How to Lose the Hounds: Maroon Geographies and a World beyond Policing. Roberto Sirvent: How can your book help BAR readers understand the current political and social climate?
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Aug 1, 2023 | 
nonprofitquarterly.org | Isaiah Thompson |Rithika Ramamurthy |Julian Rose |Colleen Hagerty
For decades, communities around the country that are home to large, wealthy nonprofit institutions like universities and hospitals have struggled with an economic conundrum. On the one hand, these nonprofits drive employment; attract talent and capital; and bolster the status, reputation, and desirability of the cities they call home. On the other hand, the same nonprofits often have vast real estate holdings—land on which, as nonprofits, they generally pay nothing in local property taxes.
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Aug 1, 2023 | 
nonprofitquarterly.org | Julian Rose |Cali Slepin |Rebekah Barber |Chuck Collins
How can we safeguard radical, mutual aid funding efforts? On May 31, Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents and Atlanta police arrested three organizers of the Atlanta Solidarity Fund. These were Marlon Scott Kautz, the fund’s chief financial officer; Savannah D. Patterson, the group’s secretary; and Adele MacLean, CEO of the fund. Organizing that challenges capitalism, White supremacy, policing and prisons, and imperialism always carries risk.
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May 2, 2023 | 
scalawagmagazine.org | Julian Rose
Reflections on abolition, carcerality, and our #StopCopCity movement from justice-impacted Black revolutionariesThis essay mentions state-sanctioned murder. In this interview, I speak with Bridgette Simpson, lead organizer with Barred Business, to probe her perspective on the connections between Atlanta's persistent carcerality and the prison industrial complex's creation of state enemies by criminalizing Black life and resistance.
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Feb 23, 2023 | 
shareable.net | Julian Rose
It should come as no surprise that we are experiencing ongoing crises that are most impacting Black folks, poor folks, queer folks, disabled folks, and others of marginalized identities. Our context under capitalism is fraught. In the last year alone Atlanta saw the impacts of price gouging, causing 11% inflation in 2022.
