Giraffe D.S. lecture on the evolving situation and it’s uniqueness…..
Category: Politics
While the Whole World is Busy….
Denmark and Hongkong are paying attention, as some others…..
The incomplete, true, authentic and wonderful history of May Day – Peter Linebaugh
……On May Day 1980 the Green and Red themes were combined when a former Buick auto-maker from Detroit, one “Mr. Toad,” sat at a picnic table and penned the following lines, The eight hour day is not enough;We are thinking of more and better stuff.So here is our prayer and here is our plan,We want what we want and we’ll take what we can. Down with wars both small and large,Except for the ones where we’re in charge:Those are the wars of class against class,Where we get a chance to kick some ass.. For air to breathe and water to Read More
Message from a friend: April 23rd, 2020 – Smuggler not Netted
Brilliant weather. 4.30pm, on the bike with saddle bags along the Rhine with many people, on the river police boat enjoying its time as well it seems. Across the dam at the hydro power plant and further up the Rhine, then through the garden allotments – many cars, people enjoying bbq – across the border road passing under the regional train line and right into the side street following along the Swiss German border, now ‘closed’ by a white/red plastic ribbon. And up onto the footpath between border and Hoernli cemetery nursery and then hitting the forest road at the Read More
Noam Chomsky, ‘History does not repeat itself but sometimes rhymes.’
Posted by Dilip Simeon, 9.2., 2020 NOAM CHOMSKY: If you’ll indulge me, I’d like to start with a brief reminiscence of a period which is eerily similar to today in many unpleasant respects. I’m thinking of exactly 80 years ago, almost to the day, happened to be the moment of the first article that I remember having written on political issues. Easy to date: It was right after the fall of Barcelona in February 1939. The article was about what seemed to be the inexorable spread of fascism over the world. In 1938, Austria had been annexed by Nazi Germany. A Read More