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Chicago Can’t Tell the Difference between a Confederate General and an American Hero

June 11, 2021 By Erik Curren

As Confederate statues are rightly coming down across the South, the quintessentially northern city of Chicago is wrongly targeting for removal statues of the men who saved America from those same Confederates.

AOC Will Win with the Radical Formula of a Sharp-Tongued Abolitionist Congressman

June 4, 2021 By Erik Curren

Compromise with Republicans? Not yet. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez can win the Green New Deal by staying true to her values, taking a path blazed more than 150 years earlier by the most Radical and successful abolitionist in Congress.

Would You Help with My New Book on Climate and Abolition?

May 28, 2021 By Erik Curren

I’ve just finished the draft of my next book, “Abolish Oil Now!” It aims to unblock the major barrier to serious action on climate change — political opposition from Big Oil. But I need your help to make it great and spread the word.

[Book Review] ‘The Third Reconstruction’ by Rev. William J. Barber II

May 20, 2021 By Erik Curren

When it comes to the God who hates poor people, immigrants, and gay people, Rev. William J. Barber says he’s an atheist too.

[Book Review] ‘Stop Saving the Planet!’ by Jenny Price

May 6, 2021 By Erik Curren

A slim, easy-reading guide full of fun short lists and snark that packs a punch meant to shatter your ideas of what it means to help the environment.

[Book Review] ‘Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880’ by WEB DuBois

April 27, 2021 By Erik Curren

A classic that’s more relevant today than ever. By busting the myth of the failure of post-Civil War Reconstruction, DuBois gives us a history of the amazing time when America first tried to create a truly multiracial democracy.