Author: Sam Friedman
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Making sense of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Tempest member Sam Friedman reviews Paul Le Blanc’s book Making Sense of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine published by Resistance Books.
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Who should run hospitals?
Tempest’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.
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Sixty-seven days on strike
Tempest’s Sam Friedman reports on an ongoing strike by nurses at RWJBarnard Hospital in New Brunswick, NJ.
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War is hell
Sam Friedman reviews the documentary film capturing the initial twenty days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in the southeastern city of Mariupol.
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Why don’t they just negotiate?
In this poem, Tempest member Sam Friedman observes the limits of pacifism while children die and catastrophe looms.
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Fatal abstractions
There 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.
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Anti-lamentation
In this poem, Tempest member Sam Friedman considers how, through collective work, we can resist the apocalyptic threats of capitalism.
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Was I a recruiter for Don Quixote?
A poem by socialist Sam Friedman is part of a collection reflecting on his radicalism from the 1960s forward.