"Our national faith so far has been: 'There's always more.'"

From Harpers Magazine May '08
Faustian Economics: Hell hath no limits
by Wendell Berry

http://www.joshkearns.blogspot.com/

(link is also to Josh Kearns' page--he creates rainwater systems; great blog, great guy)

If you read one thing today, let it be this, seriously. It's that good. It's a great article written by RJ Maccani, a fantastic organizer in NYC who travels frequently to Mexico and is connected with the Zapatistas. This article was published in the magazine Rebeldia, which is a Zapatista publication. It's about urban Zapatismo and people of color ( Read more... )

I mention this prominently because I think I remember hearing about cheap wine at Trader Joe's on my friends list. Unfortunately, the company that produces the wine is able to sell it so cheaply because they exploit their workers to death, in the case of Maria Isabel Vasquez, a seventeen year old who died two months pregnant after heart failure ( Read more... )

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thanks constantina

"NPR Picks Up Pro-Clinton Voter Supression Efforts"

http://halfricanrevolution.blogspot.com/2008/05/npr-picks-up-clinton-voter-supression.html

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I'll play! (ganked from tracijean and livelaughlove)

Think of 15 of your favorite movies, go to IMDB and find quotes for each. Post the quotes. When someone guesses the movie, add the movie name and the person who got it right. (No fair using IMDB to find the answer)

1. Tell me, Harold, how many of these, eh, *suicides* have you performed? [Harold and Maude penelopesque2. It ( Read more... )

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A better Valentine's Day poem than the one I posted before, because this one is by Yeats and it is entirely romantic, magical and sublime ( Read more... )