The Next American Revolution
Looking Forward to 2011
Michigan Citizen, Jan.2-8. 2011 I anticipate that in the second decade of the 21st century we will deepen and broaden the visionary advances that became visible in the first decade. In 2011 it will become clearer to more millions that our good health depends on our making the good food revolution. Instead of relying on [...]
Revolution of the Snails
Encounters with the Zapatistas By Rebecca Solnit I grew up listening to vinyl records, dense spirals of information that we played at 33-1/3 revolutions per minute. The original use of the word revolution was in this sense — of something coming round or turning round, the revolution of the heavenly bodies, for example. It’s interesting [...]
Justice and the Mayor
By Stephanie Chang Justice might do well to receive a lesson from toddlers. First, listen to how your offense hurt someone; then, acknowledge that you did something wrong; and finally, make up for what you did – these are basic principles that we learned from our earliest childhood days in playground skirmishes and sibling dramatics.
1964, 1968 or 2008
By: Rich Feldman In 1968, I volunteered for Eugene McCarthy, traveled across the country to campaign against the war in Vietnam, danced in the streets of Wisconsin when LBJ announced that he would not run for a second term and demonstrated in Chicago against the pro-war policies of the Democratic Party Leadership. This was my [...]
Detroit Arcadia
Please check out Rebecca Solnit’s, Detroit Arcadia: Exploring the post-American landscape. This article, originally published in the July 2007 issue of Harper’s Magazine, is a very significant study on how Detroit points the way for 21st century cities. Thanks to Rebecca and Harper’s for adding this piece to Unending Conversations of Hope.
Open Letter to the People
By: Rich Feldman May 16, 2008 Dear Editor, This is my open letter to the people of Wayne, Macomb and Oakland County. Obama’s recent visit to Michigan can be more than a politicians attempt to get votes. The Obama Campaign provides a tremendous opportunity for Michigan to begin to create a new American Dream for [...]
Michael Hardt on Love
Michael Hardt, the author of Multitude and Empire talks about love, how can love function as a political concept, why love, the proper and improper ways love has functioned politically, love as activism, and evil and its relationship to love. Watch all six youtube segments here: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioopkoppabI&hl=en]
ENTERING THE “REAL WORLD”
By Lydia Wylie-Kellerman A College Commencement Talk Today we each take a step into our life’s work. We’ve been told a million times we are entering the “real world.” But what is this real world? It is a world built on white privilege, on the prerogatives of wealth, on marginalization through homophobia, on the violence [...]
New Year Reflection
Michigan Citizen, Jan.2-8.2011 The turning of the year invites reflection. It is a time when past and future flow together. 2010′s end will bring no respite from the yearlong assault on Detroit. The effort to mold our city and its people into some grand design fostered by businesses and bureaucrats shows no sign of concluding. [...]
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