Josh Healey: Occupy Oakland at a Crossroads: Rebirth or Self-Destruction?
Over the last few months, I have been an active, critical, yet ultimately proud member of Occupy Oakland. Despite the sometimes-questionable tactics and lack of much diversity in this working-class,...
View ArticleJosh Healey: The Quiet Racism that Killed Trayvon Martin: Reflections from Miami
Before he became the latest and most-Tweeted victim of racial violence in America’s long, dirty history, Trayvon Martin was just another kid growing up in Miami. He was a high school junior, got A’s...
View ArticleJosh Healey: Why Passover is the Greatest Holiday of All Time
Why Passover is the Greatest Holiday of All Time more than the fourth glass of wine in a family that gets drunk off two more than the smirk you throw at your older brother when you recite the tenth...
View ArticleJosh Healey: May Day in Oakland: Immigrant Rights, Occupy Agitation, and a Tank
I wake up to the sound of helicopters. Living in Oakland, the city of beautiful rebellion and tragic violence, I’ve long since learned to recognize the distant buzz of police choppers, but I usually...
View ArticleJosh Healey: Wisconsin after the Recall Beatdown: Down but Not Out
It is election night in Madison, Wis., and I am standing where it all began, in front of the state Capitol here in the heart of America’s rebel dairyland. Earlier today was the recall election against...
View ArticleJosh Healey: White Terror in Wisconsin: Paul Ryan, Segregation, and the Sikh...
I remember the first time I saw a Confederate flag in Wisconsin. It was my sophomore year at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and I was driving with my friend Kevin to go see The Roots in...
View ArticleJosh Healey: The Tree Hugger
This is a poem for Oakland, for the fallen brothers, for the fallen trees — and for the good men in my life. The Tree Hugger his skin is brown limbs long, he is lanky like me but still: strong arms,...
View ArticleJosh Healey: The Millionaire Tax Virgin: Spread the Love for Prop 30
Taxes are sexy. Yeah, I said it. I know that most times you hear about taxes – from Obama to the latest Tea Party wingnut to your local city council bureaucrat – that conversation is boring, it’s...
View ArticleJosh Healey: Mayans, McDonald’s, & The (Real) Apocalypse of 2012
Is it true? she says. Do you think the world is going to end in 2012? Roberto takes a deep breath, like this topic is a secret that's painful for him to even acknowledge. He looks out at the tombs of...
View ArticleJosh Healey: Holiday Present: Mom Has a Girlfriend
My mom told me she's a lesbian and it rained for a week, not because she told me she's a lesbian but because sometimes it just rains like that
View ArticleJosh Healey: A Dream Detained
A Dream Detained (after Langston Hughes) For the Dream Defenders, occupying the Florida state capitol for Trayvon Martin and racial justice And the #Dream9 immigrant activists, who were...
View ArticleJosh Healey: Jewish vs. Goyish! – Hilarious Video just in time for Hanukkah
As Hanukkah approaches this week, earlier and more turkey-filled than ever, it’s important to ask that age-old question: What’s really Jewish? Rabbis and poets and the atheist uncles at my family’s...
View ArticleJosh Healey: Keystone XL has a Job for You! (video satire)
When Keystone XL’s top job recruiter comes to town, he reveals just what types of jobs the controversial oil pipeline would really create. Oil executives like to claim that the Keystone XL would create...
View ArticleJosh Healey: Yuri Kochiyama and Amiri Baraka play 2-on-2 in Heaven
I had this crazy dream last night. Yuri Kochiyama and Amiri Baraka were up in heaven…playing Ronald Reagan and Strom Thurmond in a game of 2-on-2 basketball. The stakes? Dismantling the segregated...
View ArticleJosh Healey: The Greenest Man in America!
Going green is about more than buying all the gluten-free quinoa you can fit in your Prius. It's about community organizing against corporate polluters and challenging environmental racism -- and then...
View ArticleJosh Healey: White Terror in Wisconsin: Paul Ryan, Segregation, and the Sikh...
I remember the first time I saw a Confederate flag in Wisconsin. It was my sophomore year at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and I was driving with my friend Kevin to go see The Roots in...
View ArticleJosh Healey: The Tree Hugger
This is a poem for Oakland, for the fallen brothers, for the fallen trees — and for the good men in my life. The Tree Hugger his skin is brown limbs long, he is lanky like me but still: strong arms,...
View ArticleJosh Healey: The Millionaire Tax Virgin: Spread the Love for Prop 30
Taxes are sexy. Yeah, I said it. I know that most times you hear about taxes – from Obama to the latest Tea Party wingnut to your local city council bureaucrat – that conversation is boring, it’s...
View ArticleJosh Healey: Mayans, McDonald’s, & The (Real) Apocalypse of 2012
Is it true? she says. Do you think the world is going to end in 2012? Roberto takes a deep breath, like this topic is a secret that's painful for him to even acknowledge. He looks out at the tombs of...
View ArticleJosh Healey: Holiday Present: Mom Has a Girlfriend
My mom told me she's a lesbian and it rained for a week, not because she told me she's a lesbian but because sometimes it just rains like that
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