Author Archives: Sarah Jaffe

Katrina 5 Years After: Loving New Orleans from afar

By Sarah Jaffe | Published: August 28, 2010
Or maybe I can feel New Orleans shrugging at me and saying "Don't cry for me, what good will your tears do?"
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Editor’s Diary: Being allowed to want

By Sarah Jaffe | Published: August 22, 2010
How could she dare want something more? Something else?
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Editor’s Diary: Musical High Holy Days

By Sarah Jaffe | Published: August 8, 2010
Sometimes it's worth the wait to have them all hit you at once, a sort of musical High Holy Days.
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Share This! A conversation with Deanna Zandt

By Sarah Jaffe | Published: August 6, 2010
What we're seeing with our changing notions of sharing and ownership might be a new hybrid of orality and literacy.
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Editor’s Diary: Fear and Hustling at Netroots Nation

By Sarah Jaffe | Published: July 26, 2010
But it's those little moments when you feel like you might actually be creating a movement that sustain me.
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Searching for David Bowie in London

By Sarah Jaffe | Published: July 16, 2010
I like the idea of Bowie the man but what I wanted from London was the glam-rock god (or ghost).
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Rethinking Work: service industry labor and the face of SEIU

By Sarah Jaffe | Published: April 23, 2010
This is not your daddy's organized labor.
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WikiLeaks and monsters

By Sarah Jaffe | Published: April 13, 2010
This video gives us ghosts of what we do to soldiers. And what we make them do.
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From Nixonland to Obamanation

By Sarah Jaffe | Published: March 27, 2010
Nixon politics: splitting the class resentment and aiming some of it below as well.
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U.S. Health Care Reform: we don’t stop here

By Sarah Jaffe | Published: March 23, 2010
The fearmongering will continue.
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