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Filmmakers Lily Qi and Sarabi Woods covering events in downtown Chicago for Activism Now. David A. Holcombe When the Black Lives Matter and other social justice uprisings hit Chicago last year, the creators at Soft Cage Films were ready. The nonprofit film production company has been documenting social change, combating oppressive systems, and amplifying unde...

I bring up this tired old cliché because of its applicability to the Parentis, father and son. The father, Michael Parenti, is a hardcore Communist activist who wrote for the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) theoretical journal Political Affairs among other CP publications. He is the author of 23 books (some used as college texts) and countless more articles. His specialized area of focus is on the structural class conflict of capitalist society and power. His communist affiliations were written ...