Over the last year there's been an intensifying struggle over the future of our downtown and who gets to be part of it. We can no longer naively dismiss vacant storefronts and the threat of beloved businesses suddenly closing their doors as random isolated incidents or the benign vagaries of market economics (as if market economics aren’t by their very nature rooted in unequal access to power, wealth, and capital). Theories abound as to why operating a business in downtown R

I see lineages all around me. Lineages of violence and tyranny, but of abolition and liberation, too.

"Magic is the keynote on which the lives of the Ekoi are attuned. The river itself is magical..." P.A. Talbot In the Shadow of the Bush,...