Eleanor Goldfield

Eleanor Goldfield is a creative radical, journalist, and filmmaker. Her work focuses on radical and censored issues via photo, video, and written journalism, as well as artistic mediums including music, poetry, and visual art. She is the host of the podcast, Act Out, co-host of the podcast Common Censored along with Lee Camp, and co-host of the podcast Silver Threads along with Carla Bergman. Her award-winning documentary film, “Hard Road Of Hope” is about West Virginia as both resource colony and radical inspiration. She also assists in frontline action organizing and training. See more of Elanor's work @ ArtKillingApathy.com | HardRoadofHope.com

Que représente pour nous la Journée internationale de la femme ?

Le féminisme se présente souvent comme une force de libération, mais trop souvent, il sert de façade à l’impérialisme et à l’oppression. Dans cette discussion spéciale du Projet Censuré, Mnar Adley et Afeni Evans rejoignent Eleanor Goldfield pour exposer comment le féminisme dominant a été instrumentalisé pour justifier la guerre.

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Par Eleanor Goldfield

This week, a special Project Censored episode: “What To Us Is International Women’s Day?,” a variation on the question asked by Frederick Douglass: What to the Slave is the 4th of July? March 8th is International Women’s Day, and while many will and do celebrate this day in revolutionary ways, the truth is that IWD like so many other holidays is

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Microcosms of Mayhem & Humanity: Destroying Black & Brown Lives for High-Rises in the Nation’s Capital

Amidst all the confusion, one thing is clear: the city has done a terrible job on outreach and ensuring that those who need permanent housing have access to it.

Eleanor Goldfield
Par Eleanor Goldfield

ADAMS MORGAN PLAZA, WASHINGTON — “Where that McDonald's is right now,” he says pointing across the street. “That used to be a news stand where I'd buy comics as a kid.” Dumah Muhammad stands in Adams Morgan Plaza in Washington, D.C., a light drizzle misting a small crowd of supporters and press. A few people wrangle a tarp over the PA system and

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From Judaism to Fascism: How Zionists Turned Their Backs on Their Own Culture

For the Zionists, the drive to climb the blood-soaked ladder of imperialism, to no longer be on the bottom rungs, shrouded not only their humanity but their own cultural teachings.

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Par Eleanor Goldfield
Right wing Jews Feature photo

WASHINGTON -- In late June of this year, New Scientist blandly reported that the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) had “used a swarm of small drones to locate, identify and attack Hamas militants,” the first documented case of a drone swarm being used in so-called combat. In his book, “Exterminate All The Brutes,” Sven Lindqvist contextualizes Adolf

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Addressing America’s Homelessness and Squalor: What We Could Do If We Cared

The nation’s homeless could be housed for $10 billion a year, less than the price of one aircraft carrier.

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Par Eleanor Goldfield
DC Housing Feature photo

WASHINGTON, WARD 1 -- “I wanna know where the $2.5 million is – that's my reaction.” Muhsin Boe Luther Umar -- or as we call him, Uncle Boe -- throws his hands up and shakes his head. In his role as both Resident Council President at Garfield Terrace and D.C. Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) 1B03 Member, he's had more than his fair share of

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Moth-Eaten Eviction Moratorium Leaves Hundreds of Thousands Without a Roof

During the pandemic, landlords have filed for 284,490 evictions – and that’s just in five states and 27 cities. But how could this be? After all, a moratorium shouldn’t allow for hundreds of thousands of households to fall through the cracks. 

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Par Eleanor Goldfield
pandemic evictions Feature photo

WASHINGTON -- “Raise your hand if you can't pay rent,” she yelled sharply and resolutely into a microphone. A Spanish translation echoed her words as hands shot up across the crowd. “Now make that into a fist. Because we gotta fight! It's only when we fight that we can win!” Cheers and hollers muffled by face masks reverberated off the brick

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Don’t Be Fooled: The Official Unemployment Numbers Are a Lie

A dive into the murky waters of unemployment to see the designed failings of a system that purposefully miscounts, disaggregates and excludes millions of people. 

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Par Eleanor Goldfield
Unemployment Feature photo

The official unemployment rate now stands at 6.7%. But that doesn't feel right, does it? Unless you live in a gated community, the reality on the ground feels more dire and more destitute. Behind that cheery 6.7% stand millions of uncounted people – uncounted by design. “'Underemployed' would be the most accurate, but there's not really a good

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Despite What You Heard, There Was No Peaceful Transition

A critical look at Biden’s first Executive Orders set against the backdrop of Operation Peaceful Transition in Washington, DC.

Eleanor Goldfield
Par Eleanor Goldfield
DC Inauguration Feature

Anyone trying to find the edges of the U.S. Overton Window right now must feel like they're tracing an amateur rendition of an early Picasso. After a summer spent chanting “defund the police,” self-identifying progressives applaud the pouring of some 25,000 troops and busloads of out-of-city law enforcement into the streets of Washington, DC. Those

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