This the great Lightnin’ Hopkins. Watch his hands. I am invoking my own mojo hand because I am bored with the article I am writing. My problem is that it is in Spanish because it is destined for a Chilean journal, but many of my most interesting sources are in English and the text itself … More Mojo Hand
I would like to repeat these words by Martin Duberman, who I really do not think wrote them to defend a false universalism: For women, the common enemy remains the patriarchy. For blacks and Latinos, it is still white racism. For gay people, heterosexual oppression. None of these movements function effectively when the focus is … More On Individualism
From School of the Americas Watch May 17: Costa Rica to Cease Training at the SOA/WHINSEC Colombian Warlord Confirms Collusion with SOA/WHINSEC Graduates 1. Costa Rican President Oscar Arias announced Wednesday that Costa Rica will cease to send police to train at the U.S. Army Ft. Benning facility after citing its history of involvement in … More Costa Rica, Too, Has Left SOA/WHINSEC
My neighbor says Bobby Jindal is inevitably our next governor, so I am reposting every anti-Jindal e-mail I get in the hope that it may help stem this red tide. Here is today’s mail from one talented associate: Recently, fast-talking Bobby Jindal spoke to the Beauregard Chamber of Commerce. Jindal showcased H.R. 6111, a congressional … More More on Jindal
This is what Ernesto Cardenal said in El Nuevo Diario (Managua), August 31, 2001, on abstention from voting. It was republished in La Insignia (Madrid) two days later, and that is where I have found it now. Motivated by the declarations Sergio Ramírez has just given, that he neither shared nor supported the electoral pact … More No hay por quién votar
I found this video of Lt. Ehren Watada speaking before the Veterans for Peace in Seattle, August 12, 2006, at Momo‘s. Momo’s post is a Mother’s Day post, so for Mother’s Day I will say that I am a Slacker Sister. That’s right. My little sister is of course worse, being herself a famous Slacker … More Lt. Ehren Watada on Refusing to Serve in Iraq
The Kingfish has an excellent post on our useless senator David Vitter, and how Barack Obama is having to do his job for him. Meanwhile one of my activist acquaintances has sent me an e-mail on our similarly useless representative Bobby Jindal. The message is important since Congressman Jindal is believed by some to be … More Two Phantoms
In underreported news: 1. There is a complicated civil war taking place in northern Uganda. Children at risk of being pressed into unpleasant service by the Lord’s Resistance Army (see also this piece , and this one) have to hide at night, and are thus known as “night commuters.” There were peace talks and hopes … More Night Commuters
Melissa reminds us that the U.S. invasion of Baghdad took place four years ago today. There will be impeachment rallies nationwide April 28. Here is the New Orleans information: The festivities will kick off with an impeachment bike ride on Friday, April 27. Meet at Jackson Square at 7:00 PM. E-mail nola_criticalmass@yahoo.com. And if you’re … More On the Former Iraq
There is a book by Daniel Hurewitz called Bohemian Los Angeles and the Making of Modern Politics, and Martin Duberman has reviewed it. The review starts like this: What is the self? Do we all have one? Is it best treated with Botox or with books? Is it grounded in genetic concrete or manufactured by … More Bohemian Los Angeles
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