By Mark Lewis Taylor, September 9 (Day of the U.S. Prison Strike) Here I offer responses to Frequently Asked Questions that arose after my online article in CounterPunch of early July, entitled “Now is the Time – To Defeat both Trump and Clintonian Neoliberalism.” I later divided up that longish article and reposted it as […]
by Mark Lewis Taylor What kinds of movements, organizing work and protest actions are necessary for taking on Clintonian neoliberalism, the policy tradition in which Hillary Clinton stands? (photo at right, ‘La protesta’ painting, David Alfaro Siqueiros, oil on masonite. Copyright 2010, Artist Rights Society, NY/SOMAAP, Mexico City.) In this column I suggest a distinctive approach […]
by Mark Lewis Taylor The U.S. “Left” often invokes the notion of “neoliberalism” to name the brutal structures of politics and economy that it resists today. It is right to do so, but I think our political movements need to give it more clarity. Movements across Latin America have long taught this “neoliberalismo” in their […]
The talk of needing to stop Trump is a legitimate fear. But the talk is spun in ways designed to provoke a stampede toward the candidacy of Hillary Clinton. In this way, the fear is often left unexamined and unchallenged. (fear image at right above I found at the ‘Shiel Yule Weblog’) I do not […]
by Mark Lewis Taylor * (first published at CounterPunch) If Trump is the price we have to pay to defeat Clintonian neoliberalism – so be it. Mumia Abu-Jamal With these words the revolutionary journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal offers a bold challenge to those who circulate the fear of a Donald Trump presidency to drum up a mandate for voting for Clinton. […]
Here is one carefully rewritten and revised section from chapter 1 of the newly released, 2015 edition of The Executed God: The Way of the Cross in Lockdown America. I also treated this issue of prison rape in a special section of the 2001 edition. None of many reviewers even mentioned the section or the […]
Listen to Podcast at RELIGION FOR LIFE: RELIGION, SOCIAL JUSTICE & PUBLIC LIFE I was pleased to do this interview with John Shuck on his Religion and Life program. The questions were excellent. Check it out here as I discuss the new revised and expanded edition of The Executed God.
“. . . having invited Booker Washington to his 1902 inauguration as president of Princeton University, Wilson spent the next eight years working to keep every other Negro off campus and out of the student body altogether (not wishing to make uncomfortable any southern white who happened to enroll for classes).” Kenneth O’Reilly, Nixon’s Piano: Presidents […]
Excerpt No. 8 from The Executed God: The Way of the Cross in Lockdown America (released, Nov. 1, 2015) This excerpt is from a section on “The Bitter Gall of Injustice” in chapter one’s treatment of Lockdown America’s dissemination and implanting of terror. The photo at right is from Oklahoma Watch and shows rows of double-stacked bunk […]
Excerpt No. 7 of The Executed God: This 2015 revised and expanded book is dedicated to Mumia Abu-Jamal. Moreover, my newly written main Preface to the book begins with Abu-Jamal’s words about Golgotha. This excerpt from the Preface, which follows Abu-Jamal’s quote, sets forth my book’s quiding argument in The Executed God: The Way of the Cross […]