Gabriel R Thompson

Heavy Metal #262

Full issue super special featuring...DRAVN! DRAVN, a new thing from filmmaker Jesse Negron debuting RIGHT NOW exclusively in the pages of Heavy Metal Magazine. Here 'tis, a full-issue saga of inter-related tales where dizzying heights of storytelling mastery cross paths with unadulterated science-fa...

Working in the Shadows: A Year of Doing the Jobs (Most) Americans Won't Do

What is it like to do the back-breaking work of immigrants? To find out, Gabriel Thompson spent a year working alongside Latino immigrants, who initially thought he was either crazy or an undercover immigration agent. He stooped over lettuce fields in Arizona, and worked the graveyard shift at a chi...

Calling All Radicals: How Grassroots Organizers Can Save Our Democracy

American democracy is seemingly in retreat. Voting rates are at an all time low, citizens are disillusioned, and inequality continues to soar. But there is also a belief that change is possible. Calling All Radicals argues that we can reclaim our democracy in the old fashioned way — through grassroo...

There's No Jose Here: Following the Hidden Lives of Mexican Immigrants

Mexican immigration has become one of the most polarizing issues and will remain a central issue in the coming years. Once Mexicans had a sizable presence in a few select states like California, Texas, Arizona and New York; today the fastest growing populations are in places like North Carolina, Ark...

Downtown Italian: Recipes Inspired by Italy, Created in New York's West Village

Three of the most inventive young restaurateurs in New York's vibrant East and West Villages present 100 contemporary Italian-inspired cocktails, antipasti, pastas, main courses and desserts—made approachable for the home cook.Amid the cobblestoned streets and picturesque brownstones of New York's c...

America's Social Arsonist: Fred Ross and Grassroots Organizing in the Twentieth Century

"A good organizer is a social arsonist who goes around setting people on fire."—Fred Ross Raised by conservative parents who hoped he would “stay with his own kind,” Fred Ross instead became one of the most influential community organizers in American history. His activism began alongside Dust Bowl ...

Chasing the Harvest (Voice of Witness)