Friday, August 30, 2019
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
Tuesday, August 27, 2019
Friday, August 23, 2019
Thursday, August 22, 2019
T Bone Walker - The Hustle Is On
One of the truly GREAT 78 Rpms, ever! The other side, 'Baby Broke My Heart,' has this beat tho'.
Wednesday, August 21, 2019
American Waste.....
North
America hoards and wastes the world's food supply, creating an
unnecessary surplus every day. 40% of food that is raised and grown
in America is not eaten. Globally, one third of food produced is not
consumed. In individual households, Americans waste 20% of their
food. That's the equivalent of dumping every fourth bag of groceries
we buy! Billions of bananas are wasted each year in the name
of supermarket's cosmetic standards. Millions of peaches are
discarded – around 60% – because the capitalist market rejects
it. Much of the food we keep in our fridges, tomatoes, eggs, etc., ought never to be cooled or cleaned.
Monday, August 19, 2019
Friday, August 16, 2019
Found Poem (after Zaqtan)
after Ghassan Zaqtan's
Biography in Charcoal
Blind
Follow That Smell
Karameh 1968
Damascus 1986
Tunis 1992
Birzeit 1998
A Scream over the Woods
Vehicles in the Dark
Biography in Charcoal
Blind
Follow That Smell
Karameh 1968
Damascus 1986
Tunis 1992
Birzeit 1998
A Scream over the Woods
Vehicles in the Dark
Friday, August 9, 2019
Child Of Mine (Live)
Such a great song, tho' I might prefer the 'Fit For a King' version from the same year.
Thursday, August 8, 2019
Wednesday, August 7, 2019
Monday, August 5, 2019
Policing the Crisis on Race and Capital....
“Capital
reproduces the class as a whole, structured by race. It dominates
the divided class, in part, through those internal divisions which
have 'racism' as one of their effects. It contains and disables the
representative class organizations by confining them, in part, to
strategies and struggles which are race-specific, which do not
surmount its limits, its barriers. Through race, it continues to
defeat the attempts to construct, at the political level,
organizations which do in fact adequately represent the class as a
whole—that is, which represent it against capitalism,
against racism.”
Stuart
Hall, Chas Critcher, Tony Jefferson, John Clarke, and Brian Roberts,
Policing
the Crisis: Mugging, the State and Law and Order
(Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), p. 387.
Linton Kwesi Johnson - Wat About Di Working Class ?
Still so relevant, especially:
“Nah badda blame it ’pon the black working class, Mr. Racist
Blame it ’pon the ruling class
Blame it ’pon your capitalist boss
We pay the costs, we suffer the loss”
Barbara Fields on Af-Am insurgents
As Barbara Fields points out, African-American insurgents did not use a notion of race as an explanation for their oppression or their struggles for liberation:
It was not Afro-Americans … who needed a racial explanation; it was not they who invented themselves as a race. Euro-Americans resolved the contradiction between slavery and liberty by defining Afro-Americans as a race; Afro-Americans resolved the contradiction more straightforwardly by calling for the abolition of slavery. From the era of the American, French and Haitian revolutions on, they claimed liberty as theirs by natural right.
Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields, Racecraft (New York: Verso, 2014), p.141.
Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields, Racecraft (New York: Verso, 2014), p.141.
Douglas on the novelty of 'white'
Douglass
clearly emphasized the novelty of the very description of people as
white: “The word white
is a modern term in the legislation of this country. It was never
used in the better days of the Republic, but has sprung up within the
period of our national degeneracy.” Frederick Douglass, 'The
Kansas-Nebraska Bill' [1854], in The
Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass,
vol. 2, ed. Philip S. Foner (New York: International Publishers,
1950), p. 317.
Saturday, August 3, 2019
Friday, August 2, 2019
Kentucky Wants to Break Up with Mitch McConnell | Full Frontal on TBS
Thank you! So true. I organize and campaign in northern KY and this is the reality on the ground. (Remember in the recent past when Appalachia was on-board with Bernie, ahead of the Dems' well-planned Clinton sabotage?) It's like Chomsky told us all those years ago: the American public (the demos) is far less Right-wing/ Fascist than the ruling class, yet....
MICHAEL STIPE & MATTHEW SWEET tainted obligation 1983
Always thought this is a great sign of what 'coulda been'. Lovely country jam that ends up sounding more like divine early R.E.M. than most of Matthew's output.
from CATVILLE
the mailman loves me
he loves me not
brothers and sisters have separate houses
with Greek letters above the flag
a couple of hours from here, right now,
Blackjewel miners are blocking coal deliveries
in order to protest stolen and low wages
a young man climbs the stairs with his arms then
runs down, and climbs the stairs with his arms
For All We Know by James Griffin
Timeless classic from one of the geniuses behind Bread..... (promise it'll be the last post on the theme!) For All We Know by James Griffin https://youtu.be/X_lNBrLfjuE via @YouTube
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