Category Protests
Don’t know much about conspiracies: A thought for MLK day
I don’t have a lot to say here. This meme has been making its way around and being shared by my lefty friends in FaceBook, and it isn’t breaking into the national consciousness. For many ‘Muricans, MLK’s birthday is just a three-day weekend. I have written about conspiracy theories and conspiracy facts before. The ongoing civil disobedience […]
Cheap gas and economic collapse
I was hoping to keep this short when I started writing it back in early December, but (to quote Ralph Waldo Emerson), “things are in the saddle and ride mankind.” Oil prices have fallen off a cliff in recent weeks, declining some 45%. It has been a good time for motorists–and for the peak […]
The Guy McPherson Empire Blues Medicine show
Dr. Guy McPherson is coming to New York in late February. Dates are still being set for speaking engagements, and if you have a venue, he will be willing to respond. There’s information on his new website, the Empire Blues Medicine Show. You can be sure we’ll talk to him on Sex and Politics, but […]
Fukushima 2015, still nothing to see
A meme that appeared on my news feed this AM, courtesy of D’un Renard of the Rainbow Warriors (a FaceBook group following all things related to Nuclear power): As usual, I wanted to check the veracity of the statement. It’s verified (in a roundabout way) by the Guardian. The Guardian article is mainly about the […]
Nathan tells off the Daily News
One of my pals from the People’s Puppets of Occupy Wall Street had joined the protests the other day over the murder of Eric Garner and continued NYPD violence against people of color. This was against the wishes of Hizzonor: There had been a request from Bill de Blasio for protesters to abstain from hitting the streets […]
Police and the ‘canary in the coal mine’
(12/21) Let it be clear from the outset that my sympathy this morning lies with the families of Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos, the two NYPD police officers killed execution style in Bedford Stuyvesant yesterday. One was a newlywed, the other was a husband and father. Nobody needs or wants this. The killer has saddled two […]
The Ferguson case falls apart
I’m not going to post much about this on my own. Long story short, somebody started poking around the ‘evidence’ introduced in the Ferguson grand jury testimony, especially after more of the transcripts were released on December 8. They focused on the testimony of ‘Witness 40’, who corroborated everything Darren Wilson said in his own […]
Anti-fracking activists bust my cynicism
Okay, I’m a lazy cynical b*stard. When I became aware of the fight against Fracking in New York, I thought it would be a foregone conclusion that activists would lose. Noises to the contrary notwithstanding, when the big players started talking about fracking as the first part in a chain of fossil fuel initiatives that would end […]
Bhopal revisited–Sex and Politics
Earlier this year on Sex and Politics, I interviewed Reena Shadaan, an activist trying to get compensation for victims to cover their losses from the Bhopal disaster. I had posted about the story on my blog here, but there were problems with the show and it was never mounted to the website. I have posted an […]
Harmonicas for Peace revived?
I’ve been forgetting things lately. It isn’t quite this bad, but it’s pretty close. If you’re like me and spending increasing amounts of your day looking for your house keys, It’s hard to recall more important (or less mundane things) that you’ve done with your life, even when they seemed important at the time. And the […]
The Brooklyn Culture Jam 