Vendrá la guerra, amor, y en el combate no habrá tregua ni freno para el canto sino poesía haciendo incontenible del cañon, de fusiles libertarios. Vendrá la guerra, amor, y en el combate nos fundiremos en las barricadas defendiendo las hordas criminales a punta de corazón, fuego y metralla cavando sudorosos el futuro en las … More NO PASARAN
To: All Faculty From: Z Re: Prioritization for “Reduction” Do not allow yourself to be manipulated. Do not allow yourself to be pitted against other faculty. Do not allow your department to be pitted against others. Respond with unity to any prioritization “surveys” which may have been sent to you as individuals. Axé.
Hurricane Katrina, five years on and still so many people are not home. So they can come home and stay, we need a coast, and for that we need among other things a United States Senator who supports coastal restoration. Charlie Melançon won the Democratic primary last night and we truly deserve your contributions to … More Walking to New Orleans
Axé.
These songs of freedom. Axé.
Here is a rare interview of Víctor Jara by Nicomedes Santa Cruz, done just a few months before Jara was killed. They are both important people, and if you do not know about them it is easy to find out. I never saw Jara in person and it is not easy now to find a … More El canto del pueblo
In the past three weeks I have accomplished too little in terms of visible production. What have I been doing in this hot village? For it is so hot that I find it difficult even to watch whole films, read whole books, or listen to whole albums. I have been reading very short texts. In … More The Open Source Fallacy
There were elections today in Mexico, and they were to be watched, although I went to a picnic. First, we will have yet one more footnote on American culture and Reeducation. * I am not normally cynical but I have something cynical to say. Typical, correct statement, possibly learned on television: Person X must be … More Election Day
We went to Lafayette, to a benefit for the Gulf Restoration Network, and saw D. L. Menard. We went in through the front door, so as to pay the cover charge, which was the point. To get there, we burned fossil fuels; that is why we had to leave dedans la porte en arrière. You, … More Gulf Restoration with D. L. Menard
Back home in Mexico, the Atenco protestors have been released after four years, by Supreme Court decree, Gott sei Dank. Three minor politicians were ambushed in Oaxaca, with two being killed and one malherido; elections are Sunday. Over here, these autodidacts on my Facebook page are elaborating a grand theory of the universe without enough … More Mr. Casaubon, and Some Autodidacts
coldhearted scientist وداد 