Category: Current Events
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Durham City Workers Event for locals
Are you living in the Triangle area? Consider attending an even this Thursday at 6 pm organized by the Durham City Workers, local branch of the UE150 NC Public Service Workers Union. Their description from this Facebook event page, which has time and location info: City workers are tired of getting passed over for promotion […]
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Durham wins one vs. Mass Incarceration
Good news is available here via our city’s City Life program about reforms that are working to remove barriers that people who have been involved with the justice system face when looking for work and getting a driver’s license. Congratulations to Outreach Coordinator Chuck Manning Sr. and Team Project Manager Ryan Smith, a former colleague […]
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Bandcamp store now open
Our new record El Pulpo comes out in the US on October 20th, October 14th if you buy the Shrimper Records tape version from a participating brick and mortar store on Cassette Store Day. For the first time, I will be selling music through Bandcamp. I’ve uploaded the new double album as the homepage, (download, […]
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Call Durham DA for Nestor Avila
Readers of this blog may recall a trip I made with other teachers and activists from Durham to work for the release of Wildin David Guillen Acosta and Yefri Sorto-Hernandez, as well as other teenagers detained by ICE. Tonight I received the following alert from Alerta Migratoria, who work here in Durham on fighting detention […]
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Is the Maple Leaf a Fig Leaf?
Canada often has a reputation as a kinder, gentler kind of first-world nation, due to socialized medicine, a relatively open immigration policy, 19th century haven for travelers on the Underground Railroad, etc. Oh yeah, and also the contrast of being next door neighbors to the world’s lone remaining superpower, y’know, the one who spends 600 […]
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Support GLBTQ Staff & Students in DPS
I’ll be participating in a roundtable discussion on supporting GLBTQ staff and students in Durham Public Schools at Bull McCabe’s at 427 West Main Street in downtown Durham next Tuesday, February 2nd, from 6 – 7:30 pm. The event is sponsored by the Education Team of the Durham People’s Alliance, whose board I’ve just started […]
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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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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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