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montanamaven commented on the diary post Esquire Magazine: Writer wanted to help convert class war into generational war. No skills required; pays top dollar. by Dean Baker.
I was more than dismayed by the Sixties bashing that Obama engaged in during the 2008 campaign. The subtle Boomer bashing on his part sowed the seeds of discontent upon many of his young followers. I heard them questioning Social Security back then. So many of the comments above are right on. We are in [...]
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montanamaven commented on the diary post Chris Hedges, the black bloc’s not the problem, capitalism is. by GA_spoken.
I’ll take an activist over a reporter most of the time. Militancy is not the same as violence. Taking over a building to house the homeless is militancy not violence. Please read pieces by actual activists who are involved in community actions. I actually heard Hedges say on a KPFA debate with Kristof Lapauer that [...]
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montanamaven commented on the diary post Chris Hedges, the black bloc’s not the problem, capitalism is. by GA_spoken.
Yes, Yes. Words matter. At first I thought that the Hedges piece was about the language. Now after his second piece, I’m beginning to distrust him entirely. Like the journalists that subverted the movements in the Sixties and Seventies, this talk of “cancer” and “beasts” and “uneducated criminals” is what is tearing us apart. It [...]
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montanamaven commented on the diary post Occupy Chicago’s New Home by orcatjf.
Whet about this report from blackagendareport.com?
In Chicago, Occupy the Dream and Occupy Chicago staged a well-attended King Day rally featuring top city Democrats on the dais, including Cook County Board president Toni Preckwinkle and congresspersons Jan Schakowsky and Jesse Jackson, Jr. Under such circumstances, there could be no real discussion of how the 1% have [...]
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montanamaven commented on the diary post Crisis Averted? Obama Set to Use Coast Guard Against ILWU in Longview, WA [Updated] by wendydavis.
That’s called ” feel good liberalism”. They probably listen to NPR and drive a Prius.
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montanamaven commented on the diary post Georgia Works and “labor camps in Hungary” both reinforce underclass status for the unemployed. by TomThumb.
Read Wendy Davis’ story here on Longview port dispute. Same thing. The city and county gave all kinds of perks to have EGT build that grain terminal and then turned around and hired cheap non-local labor to construct it and cheaper union labor to run it. Local leaders are pretty easy to fool and/or corrupt. [...]
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montanamaven commented on the diary post Crisis Averted? Obama Set to Use Coast Guard Against ILWU in Longview, WA by wendydavis.
Richard Grffin was a recess appt to the NLRB.
Griffin was a lawyer for labor unions including the AFL-CIO and the International Union of Operating Engineers
Who’s side are they on, indeed!
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montanamaven commented on the diary post Crisis Averted? Obama Set to Use Coast Guard Against ILWU in Longview, WA by wendydavis.
Thank you , Wendy. I’ve been following this story closely as I think it epitomizes everything the Occupy movement stands for and is about. Also the ILWU is a truly courageous group who oppose wars in which working people are killed and maimed. They are heroes. The Trumka part of all this should also be [...]
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montanamaven commented on the diary post The Butcher, the Baker, and the Candlestick Maker by inoilfieldhell.
Then again, the town should have raised enough cattle, sheep, pigs, and chicken to feed the town and no more. Raised enough wheat to make the bread and no more. And made enough power to keep the machinery running. In early colonial times a blacksmith made a hammer because somebody needed one. He did not [...]
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montanamaven commented on the blog post SOPA Strike: Thousands of Sites Go Dark to Protest Anti-Piracy Legislation
For the record, I oppose both SOPA and PIPA. The Motion Picture industry makes it fairly difficult to copy their stuff. If you have the time and inclination though you can pirate. But from what I have read, these technology illiterate bills will not stop such infringements. Instead we get a junk bill that will make it hard for innovating at a basic level. I don’t even think the Motion Picture business really would want to stop a free internet. They must get all kinds of ideas for free as well as information that makes it easier to make a movie. I don’t think this was thought through or……
So what is really going on? The recurring question: Evil or Stupid?
More reading at redd.it blog.reddit.com/2012/01/technical-examination-of-sopa-and.html
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montanamaven commented on the blog post SOPA Strike: Thousands of Sites Go Dark to Protest Anti-Piracy Legislation
Okay, I know the argument is somewhere and I’ve read it, but if you make a movie for 50 million dollars, how do you get the money back? Or is this part of working towards a non market society where we find a way to make the same movie by all pooling our resources and then all enjoy it? You know, the modern day equivalent of sitting around the fire telling stories after finding berries and eating a rabbit, mending our clothes and making sure the roof doesn’t leak.
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montanamaven commented on the blog post The Misinformation Around Debt
Most articulate and original thinker I’ve read in a long time is anthropologist, David Graeber. One of the key figures in organizing Occupy Wall Street, Graeber’s new book “Debt: The First 5000 Years” puts all of this debt deal into a really big perspective. Check out this interview on CNN for his book. Clearer even than Krugman on why this debt thing is hooey. Graeber on CNN
I suspect there’s a kind of tacit deal, here, whether explicitly stated or not: the Chinese government periodically pretends to get all worked up over the US debt, even though they don’t care, and in exchange, the US only pretends to get worked up over their constant pirating of intellectual property rights and technology transfers, but in fact, lets them get away with it. The result: we get Walmart, and they get nanotechnology, superfast trains, and a space program. So what do they care if we never “pay the debt?”
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montanamaven commented on the blog post Sunday Talking Heads: December 4, 2011
I listen to Lynn Samuels from 10 AM – 1PM on Sirius Stars 107. Then Dave Marsh on Sirius Left 127. 1Pm-4PM. They will actually talk about the horrible and scary Senate Bill passed Thursday that shreds the constitution. They will have callers with original ideas not like the mediocrity of Sunday morning MSM. Funny how I used to watch those shows and think that listening to Vanden Heuvel was being a lefty.
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montanamaven commented on the diary post Occupy Wall Street’s Next Steps – Part 1 by John E Jacobsen.
That’s my take. Parallel systems.
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montanamaven commented on the diary post Occupy Wall Street’s Next Steps – Part 1 by John E Jacobsen.
Really? I’ve been reading up on them. Started with Colin Ward’s “anarchism: a very short introduction” I recommend it. Filled with great ideas especially the ideas on education. Also gives a little intro to difference between individualist anarchism and the collective social kind of OWS. Also david Graeber has a series of essays free on [...]
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montanamaven commented on the diary post Occupy Wall Street’s Next Steps – Part 1 by John E Jacobsen.
More co-opting of Occupy Wall Street by the Democratic operatives over at thinkprogress.org “Why We Occupy: Visualizing The 2012 Federal Discretionary Budget” by Zaid Jilani http://thinkprogress.org/special/2011/11/28/376422/why-we-occupy-visualizing-federal-budget/ He has the Occupy fist in the corner of his post. I heard him on Mark Thompson’s “Make It Plain” radio show on Sirius Left. He should be called [...]
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montanamaven commented on the blog post Lakeside Diner
I wouldn’t bother to read the Rick Moody piece on Frank Miller. IMO Frank Miller sounds like a lout, but Moody’s piece is full of misrepresentations (Eastwood is a conservative) to outright blather (Gladiator is a metaphor for George W. Bush’s presidency). Hollywood is like any industry. It can put out crap and it can put out “Wall -E”. It does seem to have fascination with guns and war. Basically boys run things and they like guns and war. Not terribly insightful.
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montanamaven commented on the diary post The Occupy movement and reclaiming the First Amendment by danps.
Well said. The Occupy movement is pushing back against TINA – There Is No Alternative that Margaret Thatcher spouted about neo-liberalism. The theories of Milton Friedman are just repackaged feudalism in a new name. First it was Friedmanomics and then the same flim flam under Clinton, Bush and Obama is called Rubinomics. But there is [...]
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montanamaven commented on the diary post UC Davis Chancellor Katehi’s Walk of Shame by wendydavis.
Occupy History has an account on the Columbia Occupy in 1968:
On April 23, 1968, several hundred students gathered at the sundial on the Columbia campus to protest the war and the gym led by the Student Afro-American Society (SAS) and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). Some went to Morningside Park, where they tore down [...]
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montanamaven commented on the diary post Your RW relative, “They never had to gas Tea Partiers!” by spocko.
Yes, I find my “liberal” friends more irritating in many ways than my “conservative” acquaintences. They will not hear criticism of NPR. They say, “Well, what else are we going to listen to?” They have not yet scraped off that “Obama ’08″ sticker. But a couple of them have semi-apologized to me for their snubbing [...]
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