One of the more vivid images from the Phillipine "People Power Revolution" which brought down the dictator Marcos and was supposed to bring democracy, representation, peace, justice, and economic development to the Phillipines forever was Imelda Marcos' shoe closet which had an unimaginable number of bespoke shoes in it, all of them of course ( Read more... )

Once upon a time I was an Emma Goldman anarchist. There was a reason. Well, a couple-few reasons. Among them, my father, who though he belonged to the Communist Party for a decade or so, was really an anarchist all along. But I went to anarchism on my own, as a young adolescent. I'd chosen The Haymarket "Riot" as a history research topic knowing it ( Read more... )