RECYCLING MAKES YOU FEEL ALL WARM AND FUZZY, BUT WHAT ABOUT THE EARTH AND ALL...
You aren't going to like this. You are going to yell at me. You are going to ask what is my solution (which I actually present in an embryonic form later). Recycling...ah, it sounds so nice....
View ArticleSAN FRANCISCO'S TREASURE ISLAND IS NO TREASURE: RADIATION, POISON, CAPITAL,...
you do not want to live hereWhat is going on at Treasure Island? If you have been living there, you sure as hell would like to know. If you have plans to live there, you might want to change them....
View ArticleKISSING THE SWORD: A WOMAN'S STORY OF LIFE IN THE MULLAH'S PRISONS
It is prison Friday and I had a little debate with myself about my post for today. It does go back a long ways, and it sort of about a book, although, really it isn't. I'm going with it.It is...
View ArticleMY PERSONAL COMMENTS ON THE WHITE SUPREMACIST MURDEROUS OUTRAGE IN KANSAS CITY
It is supposed to be theoretical Monday, but here in Kansas City it is not a day for much theory. As you all know, yesterday a white supremacist by the name of Glenn Miller, Jr. apparently took time...
View ArticleJUAN VAZQUEZ GUZMAN LIVES: A CALL FOR GLOBAL ACTION
On 24 April, 2013, Juan Vázquez Guzmán, indigenous Tzeltal, aged only 32, father of two small children aged four and seven, human rights defender and much-loved community leader, was gunned down in the...
View ArticleTHE MIDWEST BLACK PANTHER 22 AND THE NEVER ENDING WAR ON THE BLACK LIBERATION...
And the saddest thing is that so many have spent decades locked down in those hell-holes as a result of similar nonsensical charges!! -----Pete O'Neal, former leader, Kansas City Chapter, Black...
View ArticlePRISON STRIKE IN ALABAMA AND THE FREE ALABAMA MOVEMENT
It's on. The strike by incarcerated workers at an Alabama prison is scheduled to get underway on Monday. The strikers hope the movement will spread. During an interview with Salon, Melvin Ray, in...
View ArticleART AND CULTURE IN THE AGE OF EMPIRE AND THE TIME OF THE MULTITUDES
Okay, it is back to Theoretical Monday (and this one might have passed for the old Cultural Monday, as well) and it is back to my friend Tony Negri. This bit of theory comes to us from 2007. How to...
View ArticleTHE OCCUPY MOVEMENT AND THE ANTI-SEMITIC, REACTIONARY, RACIST FAR RIGHT: A...
THE STRUGGLE WITHIN OCCUPY WALL STREETBack whens the Occupy Movement was in full swing I penned a number of pieces citing the problems of being a broad based, relatively undefined, populist movement....
View ArticleTHE TRIAL OF ONE WOMAN FOR BEING GRABBED BY THE BREAST AND BEATEN BY A COP -...
APPARENTLY WHAT WE ARE VIEWING HERE IS CECILY MCMILLAN ASSAULTING A POLICE OFFICERCecily McMillan is on trail essentially for being assaulted by a cop. That isn't the charge, but that is the reality....
View ArticleTHE SALEM WITCH HUNT AND THE BIZARRO WORLD PRESENTED BY WGN TV
Today, we make a quick return to Cultural Mondays. Recently, I watched the first episode of WGN's Salem. I had sort of hoped (why, I know not) that maybe the show would be done with some degree of...
View ArticleDONALD STERLING, WHITE SUPREMACY, AND THE FORTY MILLION DOLLAR SLAVE
HMMM....Hey, don't get me wrong, I was thrilled, ecstatic even when I heard the news that NBA Commissioner Adam Silver dropped the hammer on the white supremacist known as Donald Sterling. The owner...
View ArticleSTAUGHTON LYND ON THE LABOR MOVEMENT...AND MORE
I'm a busy man today, so I was thinking I'd end up with some second rate piece to present here due to my rush. Well, you may think that is what happened. I don't. I haven't really done a whole lot...
View ArticleMAY DAY: A DAY FOR ACTION BY THE MULTITUDE
IT IS MAY DAY.Today, Scission, of course, must, absolutely must send you pictures and reports from around the globe and those you shall find below, but first...I figured I would share with you...
View ArticleDEBBIE AFRICA: FREE OUR SISTER NOW
MOVE MEMBERS 1978It now appears that Debbie (Sims) Africa has had her7th parole hearing since 2008 . It seems the parole hearing was rushed and without warning so as to dissuade and divert supporters....
View ArticleTWENTY THESIS ON MARX BY ANTONIO NEGRI
It is Theoretical Monday and I have a long one for you from Antonio Negri. Negri's Twenty Thesis on Marx will take up some space here and some time for you, if you decide to read them. The thing with...
View ArticleTHE "CHAINSAW QUEEN" AND THE WAR FOR THE EARTH IN BRAZIL
Virgin Amazon rainforest borders an area of jungle destroyed to make way for farms in BrazilUnless you are really paying attention to such things, It is likely that you have never heard of Brazilian...
View ArticleJACKSON RISING, BLACK MUTUAL AID, COOPERATIVES, MONDRAGON, AND ALL THAT
It was a dream of the late Mayor of Jackson Mississippi, Chokwe Lumumba, to turn Jackson into a center of economic democracy building cooperatives, worker owned enterprises and financial institutions....
View ArticleBIRTHDAY, BUNDY, BLM, AND BERKOWITZ
Wild horses chased by helicopter during BLM roundup Okay, so it's my birthday and on top of that I have to go to the grocery store and on top of that I have to go pick up my car from its recall...
View ArticleCARL DAVIDSON AND I HAVE A LITTLE DISCUSSION ABOUT MONDRAGON, COOPERATIVES,...
Something a little different today. Earlier this week on my blog I did a post entitled "JACKSON RISING, BLACK MUTUAL AID, COOPERATIVES, MONDRAGON, AND ALL THAT" which you can read here. I later...
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