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Articles by Bernardine Dohrn
'Mother Country Radicals' Spotlights the Weather Underground
Perhaps unintentionally, this podcast holds up a mirror to the social justice movements of today.
Moving the Bar: Michael Ratner, Social Justice, and a Life Defending the Revolution
Dear Reader, we make this and other articles available for free online to serve those unable to afford or access the print edition of Monthly Review. If you read the magazine online and can afford a print subscription, we hope you will consider purchasing one. Please visit the MR store for subscription options. Thank you very much. —Eds. (Dec 01, 2021) Michael Ratner, Moving the Bar: My Life as a Radical Lawyer (London: OR Books, 2021). Bernardine Dohrn is an activist, academic, and child advocate.
Maryland's Move to Pull Children From Group Homes Came Too Late for Teenager Who Died
Once again, government actions against a controversial for-profit company's chain of group homes for the disabled may have come too late to protect a child. ProPublica has learned that Maryland had begun pulling about 30 children out of homes owned and managed by AdvoServ in August, but hadn't yet relocated a teenage girl when she died a month later after being manually restrained by staff.
Young People's Right to Counsel Before Questioning by Police
Access to lawyers before police questioning is considered a fundamental value of a juvenile's right to a fair trial. (Photo: Dirk Knight / Flickr) Millions have seen young Brendan Dassey being interrogated by police and prosecutors, in the path-breaking Netflix series, Making a Murderer.
A Lawyer Who Turned the Tables: Graphic Biography Immortalizes Leonard Weinglass
Leonard Weinglass was a many-sided original: an authentically home-grown radical, a brilliant Constitutional scholar and law professor, a courtroom brawler who brought chutzpah and wizardry in equal measure before a jury, a passionate advocate for justice and a comrade of the rebels, dissidents and revolutionaries of his time. Lenny was one of a kind, and yet, as he himself would insist with characteristic humility and generosity, he was also simply one of us.
Slowly Abolishing Solitary Confinement for Children
Children are still being held in isolation in detention and correctional facilities across the United States. Children can be found curled up on cement floors in bare cells for 22 hours a day, and for days at a time. In order to use bathroom facilities in Los Angeles County Jail, young people must bang on their cell door and hope that someone comes to escort them to a bathroom.
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