Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Underground / Overground

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“Clandestine Occupations – an Imaginary History,” by Diana Block, 2015 Block is a prisoner’s rights activist who helped found SF Women ...
Thursday, February 23, 2017

Another Spain?

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Rojava The middle-east has become a selective nightmare of drone strikes, obvious propaganda, civilian deaths, blow-back, Islamic fasci...
Friday, February 17, 2017

" Picture boook ... picture book"

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"Ways of Seeing,” by John Berger, 1972 This classic on art was written by Berger, a Marxist who died in 2016.   It is inspired by ...
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Saturday, February 11, 2017

Short Reviews of Thin Books

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“The Worker Elite: Notes on the Labor Aristocracy,” by bromma; “Night Shift,” by Ron Kolm THE WORKER ELITE “Worker Elite” is a book...
Sunday, February 5, 2017

Non-Fictional Fiction

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“Behind the Beautiful Forevers – Life, Death & Hope in a Mumbai Undercity” by Katherine Boo, 2012 This book reads like a luminous a...
Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Stick it the Man!

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“Captain Fantastic,” film directed by Matt Ross, 2016 This is a film that was excoriated by some mainstream film reviewers – Peter Brad...
Saturday, January 28, 2017

Ride the Elephant Or the Pony?

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Will the Left Continue Business as Usual? Over half a million protesters in D.C.   Hundreds of thousands in Chicago, LA & New York ...
Sunday, January 22, 2017

Revolutionary Humanism

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"Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism,” by David Harvey, 2014 Every contradiction doesn’t end in crisis or a final c...
Sunday, January 15, 2017

What they Never Talk about on MLK Day:

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“Orders to Kill – The Truth Behind the Murder of Martin Luther King, Jr.,” by William F. Pepper, foreword by Dexter Scott King, 1995 (a rep...