In November 1969, journalist Seymour Hersh, with the help of whistleblower Ronald Ridenhour, stunned a broad swath of the public by managing to get the March 1968 My Lai massacre into the mainstream news. Suddenly, the US military, purported defender of global democracy, was revealed to be the butcher and rapist of defenseless Vietnamese children, […]
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Susie Day writes about prison, policing, and political activism. She’s also written political satire, a collection of which, Snidelines: Talking Trash to Power, was published in 2014. In 2020, her book, The Brother You Choose: Paul Coates and Eddie Conway Talk About Life, Politics, and The Revolution was published by Haymarket. She lives in New York City with her partner, the infamous Laura Whitehorn.
