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Friday April 12, 2013 · 8:01 AM PDT

2013/04/12 · 08:01

Rockettes:

CIW March for Fair Food

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Tuesday March 05, 2013 · 5:40 PM PST

2013/03/05 · 17:40

The video above begins with words from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers' Gerardo Reyes to the congregration at Ft. Myers' Jesus Obrero church. Here below is how he concluded those remarks:

"We are going to march 200 miles, from this point to the city of Lakeland, where Publix's corporate headquarters is located. And we invite all of you to join us on this march, if possible, but if not, we ask for your prayers of support, in support of the workers in Immokalee. And for those who can, we invite to you join us in Lakeland on the weekend of the 16th and 17th. There we will have arrived after marching 200 miles to remind the wealthy owners of the Publix corporation that, though we are indeed poor, we too are human beings and we deserve respect and dignity. Thank you."

The 200-mile March is part of the CIW's ongoing Campaign for Fair Food, which I have previously reported on here and here.

A detailed history of the Campaign for Fair Food, including landmark victories for the farmworkers, and ongoing struggles can be found here.

Information on how you can help, and more video from the current march, can be found below the doodlebug.

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Monday February 04, 2013 · 9:49 PM PST

2013/02/04 · 21:49

I have contracted a condition alternatively known as intercranial hypertension or pseudotumor cerebri. In most cases it responds to treatment, either with the quite venerable drug acetazolamide, or if that doesn't work, through various forms of surgical interventions. However, in a small number of cases, the condition, which involves the swelling and distortion of the optic nerves under pressure from excess spinal fluid, fails to respond to treatment. In these cases, there tends to be a degradation of the optic nerve tissue, eventually resulting in blindness. This would be me.

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Saturday November 10, 2012 · 5:27 PM PST

2012/11/10 · 17:27

Occupy Sandy Relief has just posted a request on Facebook for petition signatures demanding power restoration for NYC Housing Authority residents. I know what people's first question is going to be, and that is addressed in the text of the change.org page:

CALL MAYOR BLOOMBERG: THE CITY’S RESPONSE TO OUR NYCHA NEIGHBORS IS UNACCEPTABLE.

Twelve days and counting after Sandy hit on October 29, children, parents, families, the elderly and disabled remain without lights, heat, hot water or power in New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA).
This is true for houses in Gowanus, Red Hook, the Rockaways, Coney Island and elsewhere.

John Rhea, the chairman of NYCHA, told The Huffington Post that he and the organization have been doing the best they could. Unfortunately, he said, these buildings happened to be located in the areas hardest hit by the hurricane. Yet, power in those hard hit areas has been restored – just not in NYCHA housing.

I hope that answers the one quite reasonable question people may have. Here's the petition link: Restore Power to NYC Housing Authority Residents now.

Need more convincing? Here's a statement from one of the Occupy Sandy volunteers trying to help those trapped in the dark, powerless, heatless, waterless buildings:

Please, Mayor Bloomberg, we beg you to step up and show that you care about all the residents of this city, not just those living on the island of Manhattan. You need to see what's going on for yourself. I truly believe that if you could see the lack of response in these areas that you would be appalled. There are elderly people who have been without water (not even cold water) and power for nearly two weeks. They cannot leave because they are unable to negotiate the many flights of stairs it would require to leave their apartments. We are doing what we can to reach these people but we are volunteers without the resources of government. This cannot continue.
Please do the right thing. The people in city housing should not have to fend for themselves.

Ready to sign now? Restore Power to NYC Housing Authority Residents now.

"The civilian population is being hunted"

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Tuesday October 16, 2012 · 5:14 AM PDT

2012/10/16 · 05:14

Stop & frisk, how it plays in real life:

I'm sure there are some who will chant the mantra, "It's just a few bad apples". That will mean among other things that they paid no attention to the portion of the video, in interviews with both current and retired police, that describes the relentless, structural, institutional pressures that impose these behaviors even on cops that don't want to go there, and the risks and prices they pay if they don't join in the practice of "let's go violate some rights."

Still nobody expects the Spanish Revolution (Video diary)

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Wednesday September 26, 2012 · 7:21 PM PDT

2012/09/26 · 19:21

Despite the US election campaign, other events of global significance continue to take place.

The early chaotic images of yesterday's unrest in Madrid are now being rounded into form with real reporting and analysis on what took place in the "Occupy Congress" S25 anti-austerity demonstrations. Here's the reporting from the Real News Network:

Most notable to me are the red-yellow-violet banners of the Spanish Republic which seem to have been widely present.

Here are earlier live coverage images from RT. When I first found this video last night there were about 3,000 views. 24 hours later there are 183,000:

Some Characteristics of Hegemony

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Monday June 11, 2012 · 7:48 AM PDT

2012/06/11 · 07:48

Derived from some jailbird's scribblings:

i) Passage of the dominant class from economic to political class consciousness;

ii) Superstructure of domination built up out of the base or structure of society as a whole.

iii) Economic-corporate interests of dominant group adopted by subordinate groups.

iv) A single combination of ideas become dominant and pervasive throughout society.

v) Moment of a historical bloc: synthesis of economic, political, intellectual, and moral domination.

vi) Universalization of interests of dominant group which are presented as not its own narrow corporate-economic interests, but national interests shared by subordinate groups.

vii) State mediates or fashions the hegemony by being the mechanism of compromises between the dominant and subordinate groups such that the interests of the dominant group prevail.

h/t from one AG to another.

The difference between Spain and the US

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Friday June 08, 2012 · 9:40 AM PDT

2012/06/08 · 09:40

They can do this in Spain:

In the US, police would have rushed to the rescue of proper law and order by repeatedly beating the singer in the mouth and groin with truncheons while berating him with profanity, and pepper sprayed the dancers at point blank range. The onlookers would have all agreed that they deserved it. The vicious criminals all would then be booked for assaulting an officer and Patriot Act violations of terrorism against the ~~Heimat~~ homeland.

(h/t to my old dance partner Ina who posted it to FB.)

May: Beauty is in the Street

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Saturday April 14, 2012 · 9:40 PM PDT

2012/04/14 · 21:40

I am an agnostic

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Wednesday April 04, 2012 · 6:21 PM PDT

2012/04/04 · 18:21

I am an agnostic. There's only two things that I know for certain about this whole kerfuffle.

1. I don't know the answer.
2. Neither do you.

Thanks, and have a good evening.

Time Has Come Today

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Sunday March 04, 2012 · 6:51 PM PST

2012/03/04 · 18:51

A letter from Lester Chambers:

I AM the former Lead Singer of a 60’s BAND. I performed before thousands at Atlanta Pop 2, Miami Pop, Newport Pop, Atlantic Pop. I did NOT squander my money on drugs or a fancy home. I went from 1967-1994 before I saw my first Royalty Check.
The Music Giants I recorded with only paid me for 7 of my Albums.

I have NEVER seen a penny in Royalties from my other 10 Albums I recorded. Our Hit Song was licensed to over 100 Films, T.V. & Commercials WITHOUT our permission. One Major TV Network used our song for a national Commercial and my payment was $625. dollars. I am now 72, trying to live on $1200 a month. Sweet Relief, a music charity is taking donations for me.

Only the 1% of Artist can afford to sue.

I AM THE 99%

Breitbart's place in history

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Thursday March 01, 2012 · 7:46 AM PST

2012/03/01 · 07:46

Nobody better exemplifies American journalism in the 21st century than Andrew Breitbart. The standards he has established will define the way news and opinion are communicated to the American people for the foreseeable future. We may have lost the man Andrew Breitbart, but his living legacy will define our nation for the rest of the days of all living today.

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The difference between Spain and the US

May: Beauty is in the Street

I am an agnostic

Time Has Come Today

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