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 […]
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The creation of a global movement for preserving life on earth… right here, right now
Posted in energy, Environment, Mark's Life, Media, Observations, Pop Culture, Rants, Sustainability, Uncategorized Also tagged Al Gore, apartheid, Bangladesh, civil discobedience, civil disobedience, 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 5 Comments
Alan Haber on the origins of SDS, similarities to the Occupy movement, Ann Arbor at the height of McCarthyism, and why he never built that second bomb
I spent yesterday morning with my friend Jeff, at the home of Alan Haber, the first president of Students for Democratic Society (SDS). We talked about Ann Arbor at the height of McCarthyism, the circumstances which gave rise to SDS, the drafting of the Port Huron Statement 50 years ago, and the opportunity that may […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Civil Liberties, History Also tagged 1959, Abbie Hoffman, Alan Haber, Angel Hall, armed self-defense, Arnold Kaufman, black bloc, blowing things up, bombs, Chandler Davis, Clement Markert, Derrick Jensen, FDR, Flint Sit-Down Strike, German American Bund, getting fired, House Unamerican Activities Committee, humor, Inter-Cooperative Council, Jeff Clark, League for Industrial Democracy, League of Industrial Democracy, loyalty oaths, Mark Nickerson, MLK, mooning, Nazi, non-violence, Occupy, Occupy Wall Street, participatory democracy, Paul Robeson, PIC, pipe bombs, Political Issues Club, Port Huron Statement, racism, revolution without executions, satire, SDS, SLID, SNCC, social security, Social Security Act, soul power, Splinter Group, Stephen Tonsor, street theater, student activism, Student League for Industrial Democracy, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Students for a Democratic Society, tudent Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, violence vs non-violence, Weather Underground, welfare, woodworking 26 Comments