Susie Day

New York

journalist, rude columnist, @NatCounterPunch: author, "Snidelines: Talking Trash to Power" (Abingdon Square, 2014); "The Brother You Choose" (Haymarket, 2020)

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Articles

War Crimes in the Hood

1 month ago | counterpunch.org | Susie Day

WOO-HOO! There’s a new bookstore in Washington Heights – three blocks from where we live! I must qualify my WOO-HOO, however, with the fact that this bookstore is “progressive” in an NPR-ish sort of way, while NPR might define me and my partner more as “communist hardliners.” Laura and I are members of WAWOG — […] To read this article, log in here or subscribe here.
Lisette’s Brother Is in Prison

Mar 29, 2025 | counterpunch.org | Susie Day

Recently in New York State, prison guards, largely to counter media exposés of their brutalities—like the beating death of Robert Brooks at Marcy Correctional Facility last December—staged a wildcat strike. The strike left thousands of prisoners locked for weeks inside cold cells, cut off from food, showers, medicine, visits. The strike is over now; the […] To read this article, log in here or subscribe here.
In Handcuffs, Smiling

Mar 2, 2025 | counterpunch.org | Susie Day |Peter Bach

You may have heard that, in New York State, there has been an unauthorized strike of prison guards in 40 of the state’s 42 prisons, and that a settlement has been proposed by the governor. Ostensibly, the guards have been protesting understaffing and unsafe conditions; but more importantly, they have used their strike to distract […] To read this article, log in here or subscribe here.
What We [DON'T] Talk About When We Talk About USAID

Feb 16, 2025 | counterpunch.org | David Price |Susie Day

“USAID is the CIA’s little sister.” –Father George Cotter, Maryknoll Catholic Priest, 1981 Among the flurry of Trump’s crazed executive orders causing angst in America and worldwide is his clumsy attempt to shutter the U.S. Department of State’s Agency for International Development (USAID). While much of the press’ critique of this move focuses on USAID’s […] To read this article, log in here or subscribe here.
The Future of Organized Labor in the Time of Trump and Farage

Jan 19, 2025 | counterpunch.org | Peter Bach |Susie Day

It never used to be the case here in the UK that people ignored the unions. As the Grateful Dead sang back in the 1970s: ‘What a long, strange trip it’s been.’ It was following Tory prime minister Edward Heath’s fall in the 1970s that the late financier Jimmy Goldsmith backed something sinister called Truemid—the […] To read this article, log in here or subscribe here.
What is Guerrilla Journalism

Jan 5, 2025 | counterpunch.org | Susie Day

Writers Against the War on Gaza (WAWOG) was launched in the waning hours of October 7, 2023, when growing numbers of journalists, artists, academicians, and poets around the world saw that Israel was escalating what had been a quieter, more contained genocide into the complete annihilation of the Palestinian people. WAWOG charges that this enhanced […] To read this article, log in here or subscribe here.
The Fight for Palestine and the Fight for Socialism is The Same

Nov 17, 2024 | counterpunch.org | Sudip Bhattacharya |Susie Day

Charlotta Bass, the first African American woman to serve on a major presidential ticket as part of the Progressive party, stated in 1952, “We fought to destroy Hitlerism—but its germs took root right here.”[1] Now, Bass wasn’t entirely correct in her timeline of fascism rearing its head on the domestic scene, considering how at the […] To read this article, log in here or subscribe here.
WRITERS! Win More Prizes Than Pankaj Mishra!

Oct 6, 2024 | counterpunch.org | Susie Day |Jeffrey St. Clair

Congrats to renowned author and novelist Pankaj Mishra, who recently won Canada’s prestigious Weston International Award! As winner of this impressive honor, Pankaj was asked to deliver a lecture at the Royal Ontario Museum, excerpts of which were to be published in Canada’s paper of record, the Globe and Mail. For his lecture, Pankaj chose […] To read this article, log in here or subscribe here.
COINTELPRO on Steroids

Sep 8, 2024 | counterpunch.org | Susie Day

Social justice activist Mizue Aizeki worked for years at the Immigrant Defense Project in New York City. There, she challenged the criminalization of city residents in what came to be known as the “police-to-deportation pipeline.” After the 9/11 attacks, these New Yorkers were increasingly targeted by the newly created Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Agents […] To read this article, log in here or subscribe here.
Sing Sing the Movie Gets Raves; Sing Sing the Prison Gets Off Easy

Aug 4, 2024 | counterpunch.org | Susie Day

Although the movie Sing Sing is, as the promos say, “based on a true story,” it’s a work of art. The film, directed by Greg Kwedar and co-written by Kwedar and Clint Bentley, is also about art: in this case, a play performed inside Sing Sing prison, via a program called Rehabilitation Through the Arts. […] To read this article, log in here or subscribe here.