By Joe Richard
Gainesville, it’s been a long time coming. We both knew it was going to happen. We’ve known each other for years now, always with the thought that, one day, our two lives would cease their parallel course and veer in wildly different directions. But at this moment of our nearing departure, I’d like to raise [...]
By Joe Richard
In November 2008, President Obama was elected in a massive outpouring of energy, enthusiasm and high hopes for the change that this country so badly needs and was so arrogantly deprived of in the eight-year nightmare of the Bush administration. Roughly 2 million people traveled to Washington, D.C., to watch his inauguration. Professors showed the [...]
By Joe Richard
Why is Haiti the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere? Why does the immense majority of Haitians live on less than $2 a day? Why does the capital of Port-au-Prince (which is built on a fault line) have no building codes to regulate proper building construction like similar cities? Why is the Obama administration sending thousands of troops to Haiti, instead of serious economic and humanitarian aid? Why are U.S. warships surrounding the waters off the coast and refusing to allow anyone to leave the island?
The answers to all of these questions can be found in the long history of U.S. interventions in the first modern country to abolish slavery and establish a black republic.
By Joe Richard
Going to work in a restaurant is like going to prison. You deal with snitches, scabs, backstabbers, dealers, narcs, dirty cops and crooked shitheads in positions of power. The knives, the drugs, the turf wars, the punishing of creative expression. The wages are low, and maybe because of this, cigarettes are worth more than money. [...]
By Joe Richard
Thousands of people from all over the country will gather in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 10 and 11 to demand the Obama administration finally guarantee full legal rights for the LGBTQ community. After generations of legal discrimination, the time has come for folks to get out of the trenches and move onto the attack. The [...]
