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May 20, 2014December 28, 2014

Dreamers of the World, Unite

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May 6, 2013December 13, 2020

Richard Rhodes Memoir of an American Boyhood

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February 24, 2013December 16, 2013

Thinking for Yourself in America: Revisiting “The Middle Mind”

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January 8, 2013October 31, 2015

Remembering Studs Terkel (May 16, 1912 – October 31, 2008)

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We Are All Living on Planet Hiroshima (2017)

By Mark T. Harris on August 5, 2017

Remembering Sadako Sasaki and All Victims of Nuclear War When the first atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, two-year-old Sadako Sasaki was at home with her family. Unlike tens of thousands of others, she was fortunate enough to survive the immediate blast of the 15-kiloton Uranium-235 bomb. But the young, athletic girl

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The Revolutionary Imagination: Rosa For Our Times

By Mark T. Harris on August 3, 2017

It was 98 years ago that the brilliant socialist leader Rosa Luxemburg was murdered by a right-wing paramilitary group in Berlin. Her death in early 1919 came at the hands of one of the Freikorps death squads that roamed post-war Germany, killing left-wing workers and socialists who supported the anti-government uprisings that came with the end

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Memoir: In the Wild Fields of Summer

By Mark T. Harris on May 8, 2017

This essay was previously published on Rebelle Society. Wild things happen in the summer fields. Wild flowers grow and ladybugs flitter and the sky burns bright blue.  Today, scattered swells of white clouds loom in one California field nearly straight overhead. They do not block the sun, but their presence makes the sky appear even

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Memoir: A Dream in Black and White

By Mark T. Harris on February 2, 2017September 12, 2017

This essay was previously published on Rebelle Society. Outside, the fast-moving clouds are breaking as the soft morning light falls over the grass and trees and old courtyard buildings that line the street. I crack the window open for the first time in months and the embryonic spring air wafts in. It’s early, just after sunrise,

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Dawn of the Resistance

By Mark T. Harris on January 27, 2017February 24, 2017

Published on Common Dreams (Jan. 24, 2017). As someone once said, a lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth puts its boots on. In the 2016 presidential election, right-wing billionaire Donald Trump’s lies may have carried him as far as the White House, but with this past weekend’s global Women’s March on

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“Here is a voice of great clarity and conviction. Mark Harris writes convincingly, even beautifully, of the possibilities for a transformed world.” — Riane Eisler, Center for Partnership Studies

Mark Harris is a Portland, Oregon-based writer. His essays and other writing appear in Utne magazine, Common Dreams, Counterpunch, Truthout, The Oregonian, Z, and other publications and news sites. Harris is a featured contributor to “The Flexible Writer,” fourth edition, by Susanna Rich (Allyn & Bacon/Longman, 2003); and “Guide to College Reading,” sixth edition, by Kathleen McWhorter (Addison-Wesley, 2003).

Contact: MarkHarris.media@gmail.com

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