Author: Jeanne Strole

Jeanne Strole is a political activist, artist, and graphic designer living in New York City who has been involved in local anarchist organizing on antiwar, social and economic justice and anti-globalization projects since shortly after September 11, 2001. She is currently a co-director of the A.J. Muste Memorial Institute, an organization supporting nonviolence and social justice since 1974.

BOOK REVIEW: Debt: The First 5,000 Years

By Jeanne Strole

Between Credit, Bullion, and Rebellion Debt: The First 5,000 Years By David Graeber 2011, Melville House Publishing, 544 pages, $32 Right now, everyday people are feeling increasing stress from all directions. Pressure from the faltering economy, violence and warfare, debt/deficit worries, and austerity measures are approaching a breaking point. Human-scale economic considerations are being crushed…

BOOK REVIEW: Day of Honey

By Jeanne Strole

The Flavor of Freedom…and War Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love and War By Annia Ciezadlo Free Press, 2011, 400 pages, $26 Annia Ciezadlo is a self-described “Polish-Greek-Scotch- Irish mutt from working-class Chicago…who curses like a sailor.” She says she will “eat anything, from tongue to tripe to grilled lamb testicles…a delicacy in…