January 2010
63 posts
WatchHoward Zinn (1922-2010): A Tribute to the Legendary Historian with Noam Chomsky, Alice Walker, Naomi Klein and Anthony Arnove
“Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our...”
– Howard Zinn (via fuckyeahradicalquotes) (via skirtonfire)
“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of...”
– from the State Of The Union…. In 1861. (via hungryghoast) (via newleft)
Howard Zinn: The Historian Who Made History →
Howard Zinn, my hero, teacher, and friend died of a heart attack on Wednesday at the age of 87. With his death, we lose a man who did nothing less than rewrite the narrative of the United States. We lose a historian who also made history.
Anyone who believes that the United States is immune to radical politics never attended a lecture by Howard Zinn. The rooms would be packed to the rafters, as...
Fidel Castro on Haiti: Cuba sends doctors, not... →
Chavez Writes Off Haiti’s Oil Debt to Venezuela →
“Haiti has no debt with Venezuela, just the opposite: Venezuela has a historical debt with that nation, with that people for whom we feel not pity but rather admiration, and we share their faith, their hope,” Chavez said after the extraordinary meeting of foreign ministers of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas, or ALBA. He also announced that ALBA has decided on a comprehensive plan that...
Stay at home parent should earn $122,611 per year
redguard:
An interesting site with wage calculators, executive pay, job search, salary wizards, income statistics, and more. http://salary.com/mysalary.asp Here is one calculation: “If paid, the typical Stay-at-Home Mom in the United States would earn the pay shown below for her work as a mother [with one pre-school and one at-school child].” $122,611 is the national median....
“Orthodox Marxism, therefore, does not imply the uncritical acceptance of the...”
– György Lukács (via praxismakesperfect)
“The eight-year presidential term of Bill Clinton, a personable, articulate...”
– Howard Zinn, The Twentieth Century: 2003, p. 426-427
Sounds familiar, wouldn’t you say?
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If you ever need to arguments against union... →
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Delaying aid for a photo-op →
Jesse Hagopian, a teacher from Seattle, was in Haiti with his wife (who works on HIV education in the country) and one-year-old son when the earthquake hit. Here, he looks at the U.S. government’s priorities on display in Haiti right now.
“EVERYTHING YOU need to know about the U.S. aid effort to assist Haiti in the wake of the catastrophic earthquake can be summed up by Secretary of...
The Humanitarian Myth →
Richard Seymour, the author of The Liberal Defense of Murder, analyzes the propaganda manufactured to justify U.S. actions in Haiti after the earthquake.
“Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most
grandiose...”
– C.L.R. James
“The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of...”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
“The Haitian Revolution truly deserves the title of repetition of the French...”
– Slavoj Žižek (via newleft)
“There must be a better distribution of wealth and maybe America must move toward...”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Acts of Cruelty to Immigrants →
A new investigation shows that more than 107 immigrants have died in privately run U.S. detention centers since October 2003
Catastrophe in Haiti →
The fault line of U.S. imperialism interacted with the geological one under Port-au-Prince to turn Haiti’s earthquake into a not-so-natural disaster.
“And these corporate heads, isolated from the mass of Americans by insular...”
– C. Hedges truthdig.com
States of Emergency →
State and local budget cuts are devastating lives across the U.S., but the Obama administration is more interested in bailing out banks than children and the poor.
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
– Helen Keller
“Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.”
– Stokely Carmichael
Blue Scholars - No Rest For The Weary →
fyeahsocialism:
I’m a battle-scar wearing heir apparent Descendants of a long lineage of proletariat and peasant So check the work ethic and the name The lessons might change but the essence of the message is the same
“Marriage is one of the basic building blocks of our neighborhoods and our...”
– Ted Olson, making the conservative case for gay marriage. (via newsweek)
While I am unquestionably in favor of equality for those who wish to get married, this is disconcerting. It has already been observed by writer and queer activist Kate Bornstein that the movements pushing for marriage equality...
MP3 recordings of workshops at the Socialism 2009... →
A History of the U.S. Communist Party A New Era for Labor [late start] Abortion Rights—Why We Need a New Movement Afghanistan—Obama’s Vietnam Allende and the Failure of the ‘Chilean Road to Socialism’ Are Political Parties Necessary Art for the People—The WPA Murals of the New Deal Era Can Students Change Society Capitalism and Mental Health Challenging the...