July 4th, 2011, marks 235 years since our stumbling experiment in democracy threw off the shackles of colonialism and inaugurated a new way of organizing society. The founders of this country refused to pay treasure (or respect) to a British Monarchy that afforded them no parliamentary representation, no say in how their taxes were spent....
An Open Letter to Councilmember Hugo Soto-MartinezDear Councilmember Soto-Martinez,
The man you replaced, Mitch O’Farrell, was perceived by many as a cynical politician who placed the desires of wealthy real-estate developers over the concerns of the people he was supposed to represent. Sensitive to any perception of impropriety, you’ve made it a point to not accept…
For more than forty years one of our favorite writers, Detroit-based Peter Werbe, has been publishing provocative essays about capitalism, technology, religion, politics, and popular culture in the anarchist journal The Fifth Estate, where he’s long been an indispensable member of the editorial collective. Some of his best work is now organized in a compulsively readable...
