Category: Anti-Neoliberalism
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Coca-Cola loses one in India
One of the songs on my forthcoming record is called simply “Coca-Cola.” Mark Pendergrast’s book For God, For Country and For Coca-Cola reveals that this is the most widely recognized group of syllables on the planet, except for OK, which holds onto the top spot for now, but perhaps not for long. Back in 1971,…
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24 hours till Kickstarter ends…how long until everyone has health care in the US?
With less than 24 hours left, there’s only $135 to until my Kickstarter hits its goal! Please help out if you can, either by contributing or spreading the word. You might end up being the one who puts us over the top! It ends at 12:28 pm on Tuesday, September 2nd. One of the things…
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Algebra: The Root of All Evil?
As the deadline for my current Kickstarter campaign draws near, math is on my mind. We’ve got until noon on Tuesday to raise another $650. Math has also been on my mind as the school year has started up in my work as a teacher. Two weeks ago, I attended a workshop for teachers who…
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Corporate Welfare.10: Wrestelmania
I just read an incredible article by Dan O’Sullivan in Jacobin magazine about the abuse of wrestlers by their promoters, and in particular, by Vince McMahon and the WWE, (World Wrestling Entertainment.) I recently wrote about the film The Wrestler as a depiction of how wrestling performs the abuse of workers outside the ring by amplifying…
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The Battle of the Basket
Sometimes magazines surpass your expectations. I click on a lot of links that my friends post about social issues on Facebook, but I can’t say a lot of them lead to Esquire magazine. Yet the other day, I followed a link posted by a former teaching colleague of mine to an excellent article Esquire ran by…
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Corporate Welfare.9: Markets and Chains
Today I’m posting a link to an article from the blog CivilEats.com by Adrien Schless-Meier called “Why Grocery Store Workers Are Making Less While Big Chains Make More.” It’s a topic on my mind because one of the songs on the record I’m working on is about the economics of supermarkets. The song is called “King Piggly…
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Sunday Paper with the BPF: Ahhh, Mindfulness
Well, I don’t really read a Sunday newspaper anymore. Either they’ve been driven out of business by the internet or intellectually eviscerated by corporate centralized ownership. But I’ve been kicking back and checking out some posts on the Buddhist Peace Fellowship (BPF) website after renewing my membership today. Among them was a piece with a…
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Corporate Welfare.8: Twitter Takes
There’s a new story out today from Julia Wong of In These Times about how Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco “have become a symbol of gentrification and displacement for housing activists and community organizations in the city. ” I asked a friend of mine who had moved from the Bay Area to New York fairly recently…
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Corporate Welfare.7: Walton Welfare
Tens of thousands of protestors participated in some 1,500 strikes initiated by the organization OURWalmart against the largest private employer in the country yesterday, which of course was Black Friday, known as the “Super Bowl of Shopping” in this country. To mark the occasion, Amy Goodman interviewed Catherine Reutschlin, a policy analyst at Demos who…
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