I once had a little white on black button from the Holocaust Museum in D.C. that simply said, “remember.” My husband borrowed it, and I never saw it again. Somehow that is fitting. Things don’t last. Things vanish. But memories are different. We keep them and review them in grief, and for comfort, until they […]
Repeal Day, Now We Just Need to Repeal a Couple More Things
Happy Repeal Day! 12:01 a.m. today, a few hours ago, the right of all citizens to serve serve in the military and defend the Constitution and the people of United States has been restored. Don’t Ask Don’t Tell finally goes away. A person’s sexual orientation is no one’s business, and yet for the last 18 […]
Occupy Tucson needs your help!
Make some calls! NOW! This is from the Facebook Wall: OccupyTucson needs your help! TPD is utilizing a strategy of financial attrition to kill the movement by issuing criminal citations to occupiers in the who stay in the park past 10:30pm. This citation carries a potential sentence of up to a $1000 fine, up to […]
People on the Way to Occupy D.C.
People from all over the country are heading to Washington, D.C. this week. A bit further on I discuss meeting with three of them heading across country to Occupy DC. October 6th marks the 10th anniversary of the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan. Ten years ago we were mourning the attacks on New York City, […]
Hey Radical Progressive Groups in AZ, Read This!
I’m was twittering away earlier today with Dana hoping to arrange a social drink together the next time I’m in her part of NYC and she then forwarded this to me via Facebook, so I’m taking the liberty of posting it here as an informational node to which you can direct your compadres for info […]
Put a Sales Tax on Wall Street Transactions
Just read a NYT’s article by Nancy Folbre, an economist, and professor at U. Mass. – Amherst. One of the reasons that have been given for the disrepancy between sales and “investment” taxes is that investment supposedly builds our future while sales tax is all about the present, material and implicitly is irrelevant to building […]