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Valerie Vande Panne

I’m not changing my name to give White people diversity cred

I am a mixed race person. My ancestors on my father’s side are from multiple tribes of present-day Texas, New Mexico,…

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30 Jul 2019

Talking Amazon with Sonali Kolhatkar

Worker Strikes and Calls for Boycott on Amazon Prime Day from Rising Up With Sonali on Vimeo.

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16 Jul 2019

The Case to Repair, and Not to Replace

The Right to Repair movement rejects the primacy of disposable culture and proprietary technology. How proposed legislation could notch a…

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17 Jun 2019

Local Currency: The BerkShare grows strong

Back in the 1990s, a couple of farmers and a deli owner in Western Massachusetts were denied loans, despite their…

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1 Jun 2019

The Paper on the Street

How street newspapers in cities empower the people who experience homelessness. In 2011, when Michael Thistle, 60, became homeless after…

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28 May 2019

I spent a day with Rashida Tlaib

Photographers Eric Howard and Rosa Maria Zamarron were there too. We were there for In These Times, a socialist magazine out of…

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18 May 2019

About those Rocket Mortgage commercials

My take, for National Lampoon’s Final Edition Radio Hour: Apply Simply. Sign Quickly. Bend over.  

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4 May 2019

Cooperative Acupuncture in the Heartland

LINCOLN, NEBRASKA–In a nondescript strip mall that could be just about anywhere in America, Cait Cain has set up nine…

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2 May 2019

Nails.

Looking at my analytics, it seems the post y’all like and share the most is my piece on breaking the…

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10 Apr 2019

Listen to me talk big box store redevelopment on NPR

Talking about the old Meijer store in Greenville, Michigan. Here is the article we’re discussing.

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4 Apr 2019

Oh look, Politico landed my Beto O’Rourke piece in their Morning Shift newsletter

Pretty funny summation, given the level of Michigan sass on display in the In These Times piece.

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29 Mar 2019

Beto O’Rourke Swings and Misses with Working-Class Michigan Voters

Democratic presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke visited Michigan last week. Shirtsleeves carefully rolled up, he stood on tabletops across metro Detroit…

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25 Mar 2019
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