Eric A. Gordon

Eric A. Gordon, People’s World Cultural Editor, wrote a biography of radical American composer Marc Blitzstein and co-authored composer Earl Robinson’s autobiography. He has received numerous awards for his People's World writing from the International Labor Communications Association. He has translated all nine books of fiction by Manuel Tiago (pseudonym for Álvaro Cunhal) from Portuguese, available from International Publishers NY.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon

Arts

“Do You Dream in Color? Insights from a Girl Without Sight”
October 24, 2013 By Eric A. Gordon
"My purpose is to be an artist, educator, responsible tax-paying citizen, and a contributing member to society who just so happens to be blind."
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Labor

AFL-CIO blasts big business prison profiteers
September 10, 2013 By Eric A. Gordon And Juan Lopez
The nation's prison population exploded from 500,000 to 2.2 million between 1980 and 2011, in the decades since the for-profit business of incarceration was born.
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Labor

How to build our union movement: Ideas from LA
September 9, 2013 By Eric A. Gordon
LOS ANGELES - As the AFL-CIO prepared to open its national convention here, two dozen committed union members and supporters voiced a slew of ideas for revitalizing the U.S. labor movement.
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Labor

Writers union vows support for whistleblowers
September 6, 2013 By Eric A. Gordon
CHICAGO - The National Writers Union, Local 1981 of the United Auto Workers, held its biannual Delegates Assembly here recently.
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Labor

Join LA “listening session”: Working people must be heard!
August 20, 2013 By Eric A. Gordon
The AFL-CIO, in advance of its September convention, has issued a call for "listening sessions," a way for working people and allies to come together and add their creative ideas and strategies.
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Arts

“Conduct of Saints”: conscience, crime, and Catholics in post-Nazi Rome
August 8, 2013 By Eric A. Gordon
Emanating from a small publishing house, this novel likely has no five- or six-figure advertising budget, and may escape notice. Make sure your local library gets it.
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Arts

“Fruitvale Station”: an American tragedy
July 29, 2013 By Eric A. Gordon And Dale Greenfield
Ryan Coogler gives us Fruitvale Station as a symbolic recapitulation of the Stations of the Cross, recounting the last 30-plus hours of Oscar Grant III's life.
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Opinion

It’s always Passover: Freedom is a process
March 28, 2013 By Eric A. Gordon
This is the season of Passover, the Jewish holiday of freedom from slavery in Egypt. Even if never substantiated as a historical event, it nevertheless has inspired liberation struggles all over the world.
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