Our Occupy Ypsi teach-in on Saturday went really well. Hopefully, at some point in the near future, I’ll have an opportunity to go into everything that was covered. For the time being, though, I wanted to share this video of historian Peter Linebaugh addressing the group. The following will hardly do Peter justice, but here […]
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Peter Linebaugh addresses “the commons” at Occupy Ypsi teach-in
Posted in Corporate Crime, Economics, Education, History, Uncategorized Also tagged 1607, commons, decolonization, Dutch East India Company, Great Depression, hobo jungle, hobos, Japan, native american, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Ypsilanti, OWS, Peter Linebaugh, recreancy, slavery, teach-in, Wall Street, Woodruff's 12 Comments
On the passing of Gill Scott-Heron
Gill Scott Herron died a few days ago. I was going to commemorate his passing with The Revolution Will Not be Televised, but, seeing as how most of us reading this site are living in SE Michigan, I thought that I’d go with his anti-nuclear power song, We Almost Lost Detroit, which is particularly pertinent […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Observations, Politics Also tagged another famous person has died, bluesology, brilliant troubled musicians, Gil Scott-Heron, godfather of rap, Japan, Jazz, manned space flight, NASA, nuclear power, poverty, rap, space shuttle, the moon, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, We Almost Lost Detroit, whitey, Whitey on the Moon 8 Comments