Category / Black Lives Matter / Colonialism / Current affairs / Politics
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On Objectivity: Amy Coney Barrett and Corey Booker
Corey Booker is so good here. If we had to have centrist presidential and vice-presidential candidates (not my preference), I wish he had been one of them. He has always had animating substantive moral commitments--to racial justice, to the environment--even though from my standpoint he caves too much to corporations. Here, he gets Amy Coney Barrett,… -
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Listening to Hachemi Gerouabi
What better on a relaxed holiday day than listening to Hachemi Guerouabi, grand master of chaâbi music (people's or folk music) from Algiers? Chaâbi came from working class areas in Algiers' casbah. Its singers generally were city people displaced from rural areas. They took melody from the classical Andalusian music that came to North… -
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No Justice, No Peace
Jason Bean / Reno-Gazette Journal Why is anyone surprised there is violence? Our government is genocidal. Meat-packing plants that do not protect their poor and POC workforce from a deadly virus are required to stay open while billionaires are not required to do anything. Why aren't hotels requisitioned for the homeless? Instead, they're put in… -
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Anarchist Neighborhood
Belleville is a good place for political art. Here are a few known ones. The skull soldier showing that war means death (not career advancement) always has a well taken care of plant just below it, making the tableau complete. Mad Marx, who I posted last year, seems to have acquired some friends (or did…
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