Jun 10 2009
Woodstock: Three Days of Peace and Music
Forty years ago this August, an estimated 3-500,000 people gathered in New York State for the Woodstock Music Festival. Dubbed as the biggest rock concert of its time, Woodstock showcased the best performers of “rock, folk, and progressive popular music” of the sixties. Furthermore, it came to symbolize 60’s hippie culture of “sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll.” …
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Jun 10 2009
“In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.” — Jimi Hendrix …
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Jun 09 2009
Grin Without a Cat
French film maker Chris Marker is best known in mainstream audiences for his dystopian sci fi film La Jetee, on which the Hollywood movie 12 Monkeys is based. But activists on the left also know him for his epic political documentary essay about the rise and fall of the new left: Grin Without a Cat, which Marker made in …
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Jun 09 2009
“Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.” — Abbie Hoffman …
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Jun 08 2009
The Century of the Self
Fewer jobs were lost in May compared to previous months according to new labor data. While many mainstream economists are declaring that the economy looks like it may begin recovering by next year, the underlying capitalist and consumerist basis of recession is still not being questioned. The largest share of the US economy is based on consumer spending, and during …
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Jun 08 2009
“The effectiveness of advertising depends on the amount and kind of product information available to consumers… advertising will be more successful the more impoverished the consumer’s information environment.” — Michael Schudson …
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Jun 05 2009
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* Analyzing the GM Bankruptcy Plan
* Black Agenda Report: Bankers Win Even When They Fail
* Conservative Accusations of Racism Against Sonia Sotomayor
* Empire Notes on Israeli Settlements and Obama
* Mainstream Media’s Love Affair with Arizona’s Renegade Sheriff …
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Jun 05 2009
Food Fight: The Revolution Never Tasted So Good
The on-going global food crisis and the obesity epidemic in countries like the US are perversely linked: they are both symptoms of an industrial food system that causes scarcity in poor nations, and a glut of unhealthy foods in wealthy nations. This hypothesis has increasingly been offered by analysts and writers like Raj Patel author of …
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Jun 05 2009
The Fort Dix Stockade Rebellion
Back in the day on June 5th, 1969, the Fort Dix Stockade Rebellion occurred in New Jersey. Exactly forty years ago, more than one hundred imprisoned soldiers rose up against deplorable and inhumane conditions on the base. An important event in the history of the GI Resisters Movement during the Vietnam War, …
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Jun 05 2009
“If organic farming is the natural way, shouldn’t organic produce just be called “produce” and make the pesticide-laden stuff take the burden of an adjective?” — Ymber Delecto …
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Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis Is Coming To Los Angeles!
Come and hear Varoufakis speak in person on Saturday April 23rd in Pasadena, California, at his ONLY Los Angeles-area event!
WHEN: Saturday April 23rd, Reception at 12 noon, Event at 1 pm
WHERE: Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church, 301 N. Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91103
Yanis Varoufakis of the Syriza Party took the European political establishment by storm a year ago when he was appointed Finance Minister of Greece by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. Varoufakis is an ……
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