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David Gilbert’s fame, already widespread due to his own accomplishments, grew last year when his son, Chesa Boudin, ran for and won the office of San Francisco district attorney. Chesa emphasized during his campaign that he had grown up visiting his parents in prison and learning the cruelty of imprisonment to prisoners and their families. When Chesa tweeted this photo last August, he wrote: “Flashback to 1985 on one of countless prison visits to my dad. In this one, I’m rocking the homemade Rosa Parks t-shirt! Her legacy is a testament to the fact that racial justice will never be achieved unless we have the courage to rock the boat.”

Free David Gilbert: It’s that time of year again, Clemency 2020

David Gilbert, now 76, is in Shawangunk Correctional Facility in his 40th year of a life sentence. In the interests of justice, mercy and the good of society, he and countless others deserve to be released.

Monthly Review Essays

Class, Gender, Race & Colonialism: The ‘Intersectionality’ of Marx
by Kevin B. Anderson
It is important to see both Marx’s brilliant generalisations about capitalist society and the very concrete ways in which he examined not only class, but also gender, race, and colonialism, and what today would be called the intersectionality of all of these. His underlying revolutionary humanism was the enemy of all forms of abstraction that denied the variety and multiplicity of human experience. For these reasons, no thinker speaks to us today with such force and clarity.
Philosophy and Technology: A Perspective from Health Care and Law
by Alysson Leandro Mascaro
The philosophical understanding of technology historically presents a pendular characteristic, swinging between enthusiasm and fear. The control of nature, the creation of artifacts that substitute what is naturally given, and the liberating while subjugating power of technology all give rise to enchantment and apprehension, which impact the philosophical horizon.

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