Dear EJS Supporters, Several weeks ago before we were all sheltering in place, EJS received a $5,000 gift from Tom Given, my friend from my days at Northwestern. He once lent me his Pontiac Trans Am to drive with my friend Jim Fiddler AKA Weasel Piss to Wisconsin to go sky diving but that is another storyContinueContinue reading “On Tyranny: Defend Institutions”
Author Archives: Eva Paterson
This Week in White Supremacy #119: California’s health directors say they have zero data on POC who are infected with or dying from COVID-19
Colorlines – Black and Brown people in large cities are being hit hard by the COVID-19 crisis—WBEZ in Chicago confirmed that as of March 4, 70 percent of Cook County’s deaths were Black; in cities like New Orleans, Detroit and Milwaukee, Black people are dying at astronomical rates—and Los Angeles’ public health director Barbara FerrerContinueContinue reading “This Week in White Supremacy #119: California’s health directors say they have zero data on POC who are infected with or dying from COVID-19”
At Long Last – The Remembering 1619 Video is Released
On August 20th, 2019, in the pre-Covid-19 world, many of us saw an amazing and transformative performance created by Faye Carol, Joanna Haigood, Marcus Shelby, Cheo Tyehimba-Taylor, David Goldberg, Kim Euell, Steven Anthony Jones, and Joe Warner. The performance took us from Mother Africa in the 1600s to the present day. In the intervening sevenContinueContinue reading “At Long Last – The Remembering 1619 Video is Released”