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VISITING HERMAN IN THE AGE OF TRUMP

Sunday, February 05 2017 @ 08:48 pm Contributed by: Susie Day
This past year was good for prison activists. Those who advocated for high-profile political prisoners in the federal system celebrated when President Obama commuted the sentences of Chelsea Manning and Oscar Lopez, both now scheduled for release on May 17. Activists who supported less-known "social" prisoners, most serving inordinate time for what the media like to call "nonviolent drug offences," rejoiced at Obama's unprecedented 1,715 commutations by the end of his presidency. ¶ But Obama also denied a record number of petitions (14,485, including Leonard Peltier's)...
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HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE DONALD

Friday, January 06 2017 @ 05:54 pm Contributed by: Susie Day
I was blue the other day, thinking how little power I have over my life. Like, how I didn’t vote for you, but how you’re going to be president anyway? Bummer....
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FORWARD EVER, NORMAL NEVER: TAKING DOWN DONALD TRUMP

Thursday, December 08 2016 @ 01:47 am Contributed by: Susie Day

This dream. Something is in the house, something's breaking, the things I love are going away. I reach for Laura, she becomes translucent, evaporates. I wake up, telling myself this dream means I'm worried about how tired and worn Laura has grown from years of activist work trying to get people out of prison. I've always nagged her about doing too much, and now, with Donald Trump slouching towards Washington, that's inevitable. Doing too much will be a necessity.

THE MAD ACTIVIST REFRAINS FROM ASSASSINATING DONALD TRUMP

Wednesday, October 12 2016 @ 12:46 am Contributed by: Susie Day

Time to vote for our next president! Time to choose just the right person to lead our world's most militarily advanced superpower. That's why presidential elections should be nonviolent and fulfilling on a deep personal level! O whom, shall I choose? Let's see…

POLICE SHOOT ANOTHER RICH WHITE MAN

Friday, August 26 2016 @ 03:14 pm Contributed by: Susie Day

Darien, CT – Only days before he was to enter Yale Law School, Trey Von Der Brown, 22, was mowed down behind the wheel of his powder-blue 2016 Mini Cooper convertible in a hail of police bullets.

Letters to Hillary...

Tuesday, July 05 2016 @ 12:10 am Contributed by: Susie Day

Dear Hillary Rodham Clinton,

I am voting for you to be our first woman president because Sisterhood is Powerful, and who doesn't love power? For a woman to be accepted as "one of the boys," she has to be twice as good at the things boys like. War, for instance. That's you, Sister!
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First Woman President Nukes Iran

Thursday, March 03 2016 @ 05:15 pm Contributed by: Susie Day
WASHINGTON – President Hillary Clinton, making good on her 2008 threat to “totally obliterate” Iran, celebrated her first week in office by ordering a nuclear strike on Iran's capital city of Tehran. As a squadron of F-35s streaked through the sky toward the Mideast metropolis of over seven million, President Clinton outlined her foreign policy to a bevy of reporters at a White House press conference...
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In Bad Repair: An Exclusive Interview with Mr. Zeitgeist

Thursday, March 12 2015 @ 03:10 pm Contributed by: Susie Day
Because my aim is to pass off my radical activism as “journalism,” I wanted to talk to Mr. Zeitgeist about U.S. reparations for slavery.
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OUTING TORTURE QUEEN BIKOWSKY

Thursday, January 08 2015 @ 05:11 pm Contributed by: Susie Day

Dear Alfreda Frances Bikowsky,

So many people want to be famous. Not you. You were content to let Jessica Chastain portray a more competent version of your waterboarding and bin Laden-stalking self in the film Zero Dark Thirty. You never asked for credit. But now, thanks to the Senate Select Intelligence Committee’s Report on CIA Torture, we know you’ve made more history than the average, anonymous schlub. Jane Mayer of The New Yorker calls you “The Unidentified Queen of Torture.”

Shoppers Without Borders: Cure for Media-Inflicted War Wounds

Wednesday, August 27 2014 @ 02:02 am Contributed by: Susie Day
Paige Turner, a 29-year-old graduate of Grinnell College’s creative writing program, came to New York to start her life as a novelist. She got some gigs chronicling upscale Manhattan lifestyles for glossy magazines: “good background for my first socially conscious bestseller!” Things were going great – she was online most of the day, researching fashion stories. Then she started to feel “awful” from coming across videos and news photos depicting Palestinian civilians dying under Israeli bombings. Paige developed a massive writer’s block.
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