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Author Sign at the entrance of the CHAZ. Seattle, Washington / USA – June 10, 2020. VDB Photos / Shutterstock.com The Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, colloquially known as the “CHAZ,” was an occupation that took place between June 8 and July 1 of 2020 in Seattle, Washington during the midst of mass protests against the police killing of George Floyd. On July 1, the Seattle Police Department retook the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), giving rise to the following account: We awoke in the early hours to the sounds of police sirens. We had all grown used to this sound over the past fi...

Columnist Carrie N. Baker: Calling out and calling in CARRIE BAKER Published: 2/24/2021 4:34:58 PM Smith College Gender Studies Professor Loretta Ross teaches an online course on “Calling In the Calling Out Culture.” In this course, she shows a YouTube video of two gazelles fighting in the middle of a savanna. In the distance, you can see something running toward the gazelles. Other nearby gazelles run away, but the two gazelles locking horns remain in battle, oblivious to their surroundings. For 30 seconds the lion sprints across the grasslands toward the two gazelles, who are too busy...

HALL It’s funny, I was not a movie star, I was a stand-up comic — MURPHY Oh, no, no — he also did an episode of [the revived] “Love, American Style.” He’s with a “Soul Train” dancer named Damita Jo Freeman and they play a couple. I’ve looked all over. I looked on YouTube, but I can’t find it. [The segment can be found here.] We were friends, and I always like to be with some other comedian, to make it as funny as it can be. There’s me and Richard [Pryor in “Harlem Nights”], there’s me and Arsenio, me and Martin [Lawrence in...

The Nation, check out our latest issue. Subscribe to Support Progressive Journalism The Nation is reader supported: Chip in $10 or more to help us continue to write about the issues that matter. Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? Natalie Wynn knows that people can change. After all, she sometimes jokes, she was a “male alcoholic” until 2017. A 32-year-old trans woman, she’s now a wildly popular political YouTuber. Her channel, ContraPoints, was a cultural bright spot of the Trump era, and she may be one of the few people ...

Authoritarians, Vanguards and Anti-Capitalist Movements An anarchist response to the Socialist Workers Party's criticisms of the anti-capitalist movement in the 2000s. From Black Flag 220 (2001). The Socialist Workers Party are targeting "anti-capitalist" demonstrators as the next `big thing' and ideal recruiting fodder. Chris Bamberry, a leading member, puts it dearly enough: "The test for the SWP will be how it shapes and directs the anti-capitalist movement." Another, Julie Waterson, knows precisely what they want out of it: "A cadre of Bolsheviks," Again the SWP sees working class and ...