By Mark | October 13, 2019
In a perfect word, people would do the right thing just because it was the right thing. They would give money to the people of Bangladesh without George Harrison having to produce a concert, and they would have marched to demand clean drinking water for the citizens of Flint without Mark Ruffalo calling them into […]
Posted in energy, Environment, Mark's Life, Media, Observations, Pop Culture, Rants, Sustainability, Uncategorized | Also tagged Al Gore, apartheid, Bangladesh, civil discobedience, civil rights, Climate Change, Climate Strike, disco, doing the right thing, Ellen, Fatboy Slim, Flint water crisis, FOX News, gay marriage, gay rights, George Harrison, Global Warming, Greta Thunberg, Kent State, Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Mark's big ideas, Media, protest movements, protests, Right Here Right Now, solar energy, student protests, tv show ideas, Vietnam War, Will and Grace, yippies |
Another reason to be happy today. This morning, at dawn, a filmmaker and activist by the name of Brittany ‘Bree’ Newsome, scaled the flagpole in front of the South Carolina capitol and took down the Confederate flag that has flow there since the early 1960s. Newsome, a North Carolina activist, can be heard in the […]
By Mark | September 2, 2014
Reverend Dr. William Barber II, the North Carolina minister who founded the Forward Together moral movement, is in the press today. It would seem that a young man in his group was arrested yesterday in Charlotte, at one of Barber’s Moral Monday events, for putting voter registration information on the windshields of parked cars. As […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, History | Also tagged abortion, affirmative action, assassination, Barack Obama, Brown v. Board of Education, busing, Charles Koch, Charlotte, Christianity, civil rights, Civil Rights Act, Civil War, Committee on Equal Employment, economic justice, Emmett Till, entitlements, family values, Forward Together Moral Movement, George Wallace, guns, health care, higher ground, homosexuality, JFK, Jim Crow, Kevin Phillips, Koch brothers, labor, LBJ, Lee Atwater, Medgar Evers, Medicaid, Medicare, MLK, moral fusion, Moral Monday, morality, Netroots Nation, North Carolina, Otto Scharmer, Plessy v. Ferguson, political strategy, populism, poverty, prayer in the school, progressive politics, public education, race and poverty, race card, racism, reconstruction, Redemption Movement, religion, religious right, RFK, Richard Nixon, Rosa Parks, snake line, social justice, Southern Coalition Leadership Conference, southern strategy, states rights, tea party, voter suppression, voting rights, William Barber |
By Mark | January 24, 2012
It’s been two years since the Supreme Court decided the Citizens United case, giving corporations the ability to spend unprecedented amounts of money to influence American elections. Here, with some some thoughts on the ramifications of that decision is our favorite journalist, Chris Hedges. …Our electoral system, already hostage to corporate money and corporate lobbyists, […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Corporate Crime, Politics | Also tagged Bank of America, Bill Moyers, Chris Hedges, Citizens United, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, corporate socialism, corporate takeover of politics, corporations are not people, crony capitalism, election reform, ExxonMobil, get the money out of Washington, Goldman Sachs, money as free speech, Move to Amend, Obama, Occupy, protests, Romney, Sheldon Wolin, Supreme Court, turn off your television, voting is futile |
By Mark | November 18, 2011
It’s interesting how the corporate press is covering today’s action in New York. I’m reading the Bloomberg coverage right now, and they say, for instance, that protesters “appeared to number in the thousands.” While technically correct, I think you’d agree that “thousands” doesn’t quite carry the same weight as “32 thousand,” which is the estimate […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged agent provocateurs, anarchists, anarchy, Anarchy is Stupid, black bloc, Brooklyn Bridge, corporate media, Libertarianism, Malcolm X, mic check, Michael Bloomberg, MLK, New York, OWS, Prehensile Monkeytailed Skink, protests, Ray Lewis, vandalism, Zuccotti Park |
