Ode to an encampment
by Sam Friedman
Tempest’s Sam Friedman offers this ode to faculty, students, staff and others who have camped in solidarity with Palestine.
Making sense of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
A review
by Sam FriedmanTempest member Sam Friedman reviews Paul Le Blanc’s book Making Sense of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine published by Resistance Books.
Who should run hospitals?
Conversations with striking nurses in New Brunswick
by Sam FriedmanTempest’s Sam Friedman reports on conversations with striking nurses at RWJBarnabas, who are drawing the conclusion that health care workers, not corporations, should run our hospitals.
Sixty-seven days on strike
Nurses at RWJBarnard are standing strong
by Sam FriedmanTempest’s Sam Friedman reports on an ongoing strike by nurses at RWJBarnard Hospital in New Brunswick, NJ.
War is hell
A review of 20 Days in Mariupol
by Sam FriedmanSam Friedman reviews the documentary film capturing the initial twenty days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in the southeastern city of Mariupol.
Why don’t they just negotiate?
A poem
by Sam FriedmanIn this poem, Tempest member Sam Friedman observes the limits of pacifism while children die and catastrophe looms.
Fatal abstractions
Disease, death, and capitalist abstraction
by Sam FriedmanThere are effective vaccines for COVID-19 and effective treatments for HIV/AIDS, but both remain global epidemics. Medical researcher Sam Friedman explains how the profit system is limiting the reach of life-saving medicines.
Anti-lamentation
A poem by Sam Friedman
by Sam FriedmanIn this poem, Tempest member Sam Friedman considers how, through collective work, we can resist the apocalyptic threats of capitalism.
Was I a recruiter for Don Quixote?
by Sam Friedman
A poem by socialist Sam Friedman is part of a collection reflecting on his radicalism from the 1960s forward.