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

No Socialist Paradise: Sweden’s COVID-19 Response Is Nothing to Envy

Eleanor Goldfield reports from Stockholm on how COVID-19 has laid bare the US-style capitalist reality creeping into Sweden’s already struggling socialized programs.

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By Eleanor Goldfield
Sweden COVID

From Djurgården, I walk along the water on Strandvägen – a rising fall whips in a determined wind across the water, slicing at remnants of summer and carving pathways around centuries-old buildings. Colors like Nordic interior design catalogs look like they've been stirred among clouds – a muted vibrance that evokes a calm and stoic

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Struggle Theater: Don’t Let Theatrics Shroud the Reality of Systemic Oppression

America’s power brokers are hoping murals, kente cloth, and a series of half-baked legislative reforms will appease activists into giving up the fight for real change.

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By Eleanor Goldfield
Black Lives Matter Feature photo

The crowd cheered. I hustled to slide the fresh battery into place, snap the latch closed, click on, and survey the scene. On their knees, protestors in front of the newly erected fence applauded as a cop on the other side took a knee. Around him, other cops seemed to take no notice, shifting in their riot gear as the sun slowly dipped behind the

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Surviving this Pandemic is Hard, For America’s Most Vulnerable, its Nearly Impossible

This coronavirus pandemic has laid bare the exclusion of whole subsets of the most vulnerable in our society, exemplifying the toxic mix of racism, sexism, imperialism, and capitalism that the US blends so well.

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By Eleanor Goldfield
Coronavirus capitalism Feature photo

They talk about it as if they're doing a garbage, low budget remake of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” but instead of a golden ticket, it's a $1,200 check. And instead of a magical trip through a fantasy land of candy and orange-faced crooners, it's a paltry pittance from an orange-faced fascist who held up the delivery in order to ensure

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Disunited States: Government Failure to Address Coronavirus is Sparking a Mutual Aid Revolution

As state and local authorities struggle and the federal government focus on saving Wall Street, a volunteer-driven mutual aid revolution is taking hold in disenfranchised communities across America.

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By Eleanor Goldfield
coronavirus volunteer Feature photo

I'm not from DC, but I live here. I'm now a part of this living, breathing being that is a city. This city. It helps me to think of cities that way, even ones that I don't fully feel at home in – like a body. And I'm like a blood transfusion. I know this isn't my city, my body, but it's where my life flows now, and so I best flow with it. This body

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The American People Are the True Victims of Our Latest Coup

We have more in common with the Venezuelan people than we do with our own government. From this understanding, we can build real solidarity, and defy the coups against us and our counterparts around the globe.

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By Eleanor Goldfield

There's an office that you go to to overthrow a government. CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou stands in front of a packed house in the Chavez Room at the Venezuelan Embassy. A mural of Hugo Chavez looks on from the back wall. Bookcases stand empty, a fitting sign of the bumbling idiocy of empire. The lobby has been converted into a makeshift gallery:

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Sick Of Facebook? Read This.

Now is the time to defend the remnants of the Information Revolution. In the streets and online, we need to hear and uplift voices for radical and progressive change. Take off the corporate gag, close the social media surveillance blinds, and shift.

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By Eleanor Goldfield
Faebook Mural

I didn’t realize you were still doing your show!” “Why can’t I see your posts anymore?” “I’ve had to re-follow you several times on Facebook.” These are but a few of the various comments and complaints about my Facebook page that I’ve fielded the past two years. With growing regularity and intensity, the cheery blue “F” has fucked over radical

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