on pain of death: the bonding process
The dangers of militarism.And its connection with the two other ” triplets of evil” named by Martin Luther King Jr. : racism and consumerism. GRACE LEE BOGGS: I’m sorry, but I think if we stick to...
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A product of her times. Or simply another variant on the white liberal Eastern establishment, make that neo-liberal and what appears to be appallingly ethno-centric and racist, filled with any number...
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Accordingly, because a homeland is not only territory but a primal element of personal and national identity, the division of the Land of Israel into two states is not only the sole political solution,...
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by Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) MLK Day… Cover of the Day: Yes, we only have a few rounds left, but there’s no time like the present. Robert Newman and David...
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There was a great deal of controversy over jazz and swing music in Nazi Germany, with a public antipathy towards it, yet for the higher ups the debate was more nuanced. To even conceive of Goebbels as...
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James Cone’s The Cross and the Lynching Tree is a perplexing book.You wonder if its socialism using religion as a pretext to promote ideology or whether the attack against money is part of a larger...
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Joan Baez was introduced to her first large gathering of afficionados by Chicago’s ebullient troubadour Bob Gibson, at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival, and the audience, which had come to see the famous...
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Jesse Marinoff Reyes: I AM THIRD Penguin Books, 2001 Photograph: archival (via Bettman/Corbis) Design: Jesse Marinoff Reyes Art Director: Paul Buckley Happy Birthday to the “Kansas Comet,” Gale Sayers...
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In times of stress, look for the prophets of an earthly paradise. America may be ready for its own millennial cult… The main American Indian movements, Pontiac, Code of Handsome Lake and the Ghost...
View Articlethe fifties: getting funky with disaffection
Must we be nostalgic about the 1950′s? Hardly the Golden Age many make it out to be. If we turn over the shiny stone, there were more than a few creepy-crawlers underneath… James Dean created a...
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