Rain and Thunder has kindly made this interview available for us to share with you. You may also download it as a PDF (33KB). Abolishing Prostitution: The Swedish Solution An Interview with Gunilla Ekberg by the Rain and Thunder Collective Published in Rain and Thunder: A Radical Feminist Journal of...

Oh sure. Microsoft loves open source. If your open source company is willing to admit Microsoft owns Linux, acknowledge the legitimacy of its proprietary standards, and put “whatever Microsoft wants” at the center of all your business plans, then Microsoft will let you live in its world....

Maybe I’m showing my age, but once upon a time Microsoft was the scrappy little guy preaching openness and IBM was the big bad ogre trying to close things down. This was in the 1980s, during the dance between OS/2 and Windows. (Remember the MicroChannel bus? Good times.) It is amazing how comp...

We applaud Springfield officials for not giving up on Apremont Triangle. The Republican reports today that the city is still interested in closing the viewing booths at the Amazing.net porn shop there. The booths are associated with health risks, economic blight, harassment of residents, and prostit...

Bad news for Springfield's Apremont Triangle last month. Hampden County Superior Court ruled that Capital Video's Amazing.net porn shop there can reopen its viewing booths. One of Charlie Ryan's last acts as the Mayor of Springfield was to deny Capital Video a 2008 entertainment license for these bo...

For the last few months, we've been "foundation building."  For us, this means taking the time to focus on the business behind Common Craft and how we communicate our business to you. Our goal is clarity - if we are clear about the exact business that we run, then we're more able ...

Industrial policy is a long-held conservative shibboleth. It’s a code word, government choosing winners and losers, government bad, government replacing the market, socialism, communism. How far you go down that slippery slope shows how devoted you are to the ideology. It has become clear to m...

Far from the common belief that 'prostitution will always be with us', it's not that hard to deter johns from buying sex. These two articles present the results of a survey of 110 Scottish men between the ages of 18 and 77 who had paid for sex: Sex industry in Scotland: Name and shame the punters (D...

Congratulations to NO V.I.P. in Berlin, CT. The Connecticut Supreme Court just upheld Berlin's ordinance that requires adult-themed businesses to keep at least 250 feet away from residential zones. Very Intimate Pleasures, an adult toy and video shop, had tried to argue that this ordinance was inval...

Ann Woolner applauds Sweden's approach to prostitution on Bloomberg.com today: Legalize Selling Your Body, Criminalize Buying It: Ann Woolner ...de-criminalizing the flesh business encourages human trafficking and boosts the presence of organized crime, according to studies. There is no drop in brut...