Category: Anti-Neoliberalism
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Call In to Protect Visitation Rights at Durham County Jail on Monday, February 27th.
The Inside-Outside Alliance in Durham is a local organization that “is primarily focused on supporting prisoners in the Durham County jail and on fighting police terrorism throughout the city.” This post is to encourage readers to join in their campaign to prevent the revocation of in-person visitation rights from families with members locked up in what…
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Help Bring Wildin Back to Riverside High
If you’ve been following this blog for awhile, you know that I’ve been involved with other NC, GA, and DC activists to push back against ICE raids that swept up undocumented teenagers who arrived in the US as unaccompanied minors after 2014. One of these students, Wildin David Guillen Acosta, was on his way to…
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Bacon Sheds Light on Pork
One of the ironies of teaching students to read on their own initiative outside of school is that the heavy work load of teaching can make it hard for teachers to do just that themselves. This is something I try and resist as much as possible, and it gets easier when I have some time…
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New Cassette Released Today!
If you’re into hypnosis, you might like a minimal instrumental piece I just released on cassette and digital download from Unread Records this very day. It’s a 45 minute long instrumental version of a song from my forthcoming record called We’ll Teach Them How to Privatize. The cover of the cassette features degraded xeroxed pictures…
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Pretty Bubbles Turning Into Grime
Michael Hudson has a new book out so I thought it was high time I posted some thoughts I’ve been meaning to write up about his last one, The Bubble and Beyond. I’ve posted before about Hudson’s 1973 classic Superimperialism, whose analysis of the economic strategy of American Empire was followed by a terrific 1977…
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Organize 2020 and Durham’s Tipping Point
I’m posting today to ask folks to consider supporting an Indie Go Go campaign currently heading into its final week by Organize 2020, the social justice caucus of the North Carolina Association of Educators. As an active member of this group, I have been impressed by the commitment, vision and integrity of people involved in this…
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Monsanto in the Classroom?
I spent the weekend editing vocals after reading an article that bore close relation to the subject matter of one of the songs I was working on. The track is called Contamination in the Grass and it deals with Monsanto and other similar agribiz corporations such as Dow Chemical and Syngenta. The lyrics takes many…
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