If you clicked on today's Google Doodle and, after the raining of LGBTQ+ flags filled your screen, wondered who this particular man was, we are here to provide some information on Dr. Frank Kameny: astronomer and gay rights activist. The post Google Doodle Hero of the Day Frank Kameny and His Fight for Gay Civil Rights first appeared on The Mary Sue.
On Nov. 29, 2012, shortly after my two-year stint as an adjunct faculty instructor at City College, 14 of 17 scheduled employees at a Madison Avenue McDonald’s went on strike, joining 200 other fast-food workers across New York City. It was the first in an escalating series of nationwide actions demanding a $15 minimum wage and the right to join a union. Exactly four years later, at 6 a.m. on another November morning, I joined workers, organizers and elected officials in civil disobedience outside the McDonald’s located just steps from Wall Street, making the same demands.
New beech leaves, Gribskov Forest in the northern part of Sealand, Denmark. Malene Thyssen, Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link.
John Bellamy Foster is the editor of
Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. Brett Clark is associate editor of
Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Utah. Hannah Holleman is a director of the Monthly Review Foundation and an associate professor of sociology at Amherst College.
“The old Greek philosophers,” Frederick Engels wrote in
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, “were all born natural dialecticians.”
1 Nowhere was this more apparent than in ancient Greek medical thought, which was distinguished by its strong materialist and ecological basis. This dialectical, materialist, and ecological approach to epidemiology (from the ancient Greek