Queer issues and corporate power
(From my FB page) All due respect, have you considered that maybe your issues with Islam stem from, as Eric Ray seems to have suggested, […]
Left vs Right as divide-and-conquer against US populace
Tom Over Thanks Jeff Mclean, assuming I understand this correctly. The NDAA provisions are an example of how the usual libertard-vs-repubtard rhetoric is a distraction. […]
Liberal opposition to war against Iran and the repression of sexual minorities in that country
Tom Over A person can take issue with the generally higher degree of homophobia and sexism in Muslim cultures while also being against the fear-mongering […]
Notes regarding the 'human condition' and Stephen King's The End of the Whole Mess
Because of tangential temptations, King’s is a useful device: the narrator is under pressure to tell the story in a quite limited amount of time, […]
Solidarity
And it’s absence. When someone from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers told a small gathering of us at the Sporeprint Info Shop about how little […]
sustained public engagement
Demonstrations I’ve observed or participated in have involved carrying signs and shouting chants, with little interaction with members of the general public who happen to […]
Gratitude
Picking and strumming it, making love notes
Use beauty
To promote community, with sight, sound, smells and conceptual beauty such as found in mathematics and science and abstract art.
CIW worker and interpreter visit Sporeprint Info Shop, one of many visits in Columbus, Ohio
Emilio told those of us gathered at Sporeprint Info Shop what it’s like to fill, pick up and carry a bucket of tomatoes during a […]
Empathy and Creativity
I can engage with someone’s mind and benefit from intellectual and emotional synergy with them if I empathize. But I can’t if I hate them. […]