American Consumer Empire in Puerto Rico
Puerto Ricans were forced to become “Porto Ricans” – adopting Anglo customs and holidays all while subsidizing American profits – without the hope of equality.
Tag: politics
A Patriotic Day of Protest
Today’s activists would be wise to take a page from history and use the Fourth of July holiday to illuminate the ways in which American society is becoming ever more unequal.
A Man of Impeachable Character: A Roundtable with the Editors
What we have now is not a president with scandals, but a scandalous presidency. We do not wonder that the president is now personally under investigation, but only how it could have taken so long.
Brexit, Uncertainty, and Encounter: An Interview with Corrymeela Community’s Executive Director Colin Craig
As the generation that built the system that promoted peace in Europe fades away, we find ourselves struggling to maintain those institutions. This is in large part because we forget too easily that their original and true purpose was not the sacrifice of national identity at the altar of economic integration. The purpose was peace.
The Handmaid’s Tale: America in the Age of Pence
The emphasis on the purity of women and an obsession with controlling sexual urges that creates ideas like the Billy Graham Rule are apparent in The Handmaid’s Tale, where the agency of the Handmaids has been stripped from them and their sanctioned sexual encounters are limited ritualized sessions in order to produce children.
Monuments and Power in Urban Spaces: Looking at New Orleans, Louisiana from São Paulo, Brazil
The removal of monuments in New Orleans has captured national attention, with reports of tempers flaring and tensions rising among protestors and counter-protestors in one of the country’s most historically and culturally significant cities.
Inheriting Expulsions from the Insurance Industry
Any conversation about health care must begin with the collective acknowledgement of a simple fact: the selective incorporation of humans based on statistical predictions of vitality is the foundation upon which insurance companies assembled themselves.
Treating Mental Illness in Victorian Britain
In 1884, four years after his release from Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, and following the death of his sister, George Longmore re-admitted himself into the asylum.
The Power of Storytelling: An Interview with Social Change Leader David Hunt
There has never been an activist movement without storytelling being a fundamental tool of it.
Call for Contributors for July 2017 Issue on “Revolutions”
The Activist History Review invites proposals for articles that address the theme of “revolutions” to be featured in the July issue.
