global politics / news / political analysis / prison-industrial complex / race politics / social justice
by chriscrews · Published 07/13/2019
It’s a sad commentary on the state of this country that we have to hold rallies protesting the existence of migrant detention camps. It’s worth repeating–migrant detention camps–with conditions bordering on concentration camps...
news / political analysis / prison-industrial complex
by chriscrews · Published 01/31/2015 · Last modified 03/21/2015
This past Thursday (1/29) the New York Police Foundation held their annual ‘State of the NYPD’ breakfast event, in which NY Police Commissioner William Bratton gave his update on law enforcement issues across...
economics / political analysis / prison-industrial complex / race politics / social justice
by chriscrews · Published 12/08/2014 · Last modified 03/21/2015
Friends, citizens, lend me your ears. An evil shrouds this great land called America. It lurks behind doors and walks freely in every street and town. It whispers from our textbooks and it...
news / political analysis / prison-industrial complex / race politics
by chriscrews · Published 05/04/2013
Earlier this week the FBI announced that they were elevating Black Liberation Army (BLA) and Black Panther Party (BPP) activist Assata Shakur (formerly Joanne Chesimard) to their ‘Most Wanted Terrorist’ list of domestic...
education / gender politics / political analysis / pop culture / prison-industrial complex / race politics
by chriscrews · Published 03/02/2013
For those who missed it, there was an excellent event recently at The New School called Hip-Hop: Race, Politics, and Hyper-Masculinity that was organized by some former and current New School folks, and...
economics / political analysis / prison-industrial complex / science / teaching / technology
by chriscrews · Published 04/27/2012
A Brave New World doesn’t really even begin to capture it all… There has been a slow but stead growth in the logistics of surveillance, whether that be of people or of objects....
The Adventures of Mr. Chris is a collection of personal reflections, scholarly ruminations, travel adventures, and cultural analysis.
