It has been some years but our 'leftist' reading group of a dozen which included leading local Palestine solidarity activists could not get through Blumenthal's "Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater

Late last year I saw a screening of the original 8 mm film at the Autry Museum. Remarkable!

About forty nine years ago when I worked at International Nickel I read a news report on a retiring film censor. He said that he had considered censoring Salt of the Earth, concerned about the impact

The UK's worship of the division of labour on a bank note.

Zerzan is such a nut that even his great friend Ted Kaczynski dropped him. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ted-kaczynski-the-truth-about-primitive-life-a-critique-of-anarchoprimitivism It may

(About Graeber's 'distinction without difference' between bureaucratic technology and poetic

I never understood why Chomsky said this in a first reaction, the interview is too short, probably because he was provoked by the interviewer. The two don't get along with each other indeed. A lot of

I should add that using a proxy server is frowned upon here, just as it is on my blog. It is almost always used by trolls trying to cover their tracks. Here's the report on Max Power's:

C. Horgan is Max Power, just as rosalux was. He doesn't seem to understand that by using a proxy server, his ip address can be seen in the headers of his message. The poor boy should put some of that

There’s no mainstream, left-wing national vision for what Canadian economic policy should look like… https://readpassage.com/erin-otooles-labour-day-message-should-worry-the-left/

You know else signed the (updated) Harper’s letter? Cornel West. This, after the tempest in a teapot that surrounded the letter.

Privilege: Everything except the money in your trust fund. https://theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/03/race-to-dinner-party-racism-women

Mexican farmers occupy dam to stop water payments to the United States

From a friend: FYI: From one of the signers of the Harper's letter. Interesting mix of rightwing talk (US has to compete with and dominate China, etc.) and left-sounding support for increased funding

Some might be interested in this easy-read critical history up through last year of U.S. government (southern-border-focus) immigration policies and practices: Sand and Blood: America's Stealth War on

Immigration forum in New Politics and New Labor Forum: Attachments that didn't come through.

I came across this list while searching on activist photography lists. I thought it might interest some of you; https://medium.com/@secondlines/visions-of-a-future-beyond-capitalism-6271c8db9de0 Sent

It's funny to see Ruy Texeria come up in this, he's so mainstream that I was assigned him often in my high school civics class. Regarding immigration, you might be interested in a debate that went on

Noam Chomsky has said Zerzan's Primitivism is "in favor of mass genocide on a scale that has never even been contemplated." It makes claims that have merit for discussion and interrogation but his

There is no doubt that cancel culture is a thing - particularly related to the cancelation of advocates of Palestinian rights and no doubt emulated by a few on the left as well. But it seems to me