Category: Current events
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Posts elsewhere (w/ great links!)
I’ve neglected my own blog a bit as I’ve been posting to the Eat the State! blog lately. As we wait to see how deeply The Crazy has infected the American electorate, here are a couple things I posted at ETS! in October with a few awesome video links reflecting…
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The Rules Are No Game: Time to End Corporate Rule
Anthony Wilden, with whom I studied communication theory and systems theory in college, wrote a book called The Rules Are No Game. The phrase has long stuck with me as a terse encapsulation of the idea that all systems—from computer operating systems to sporting events to political systems—operate according to…
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Something Rotten in Denmark? Looking Back at Copenhagen & Looking Forward to the Future
How you assess the outcome of the 2009 UN Climate Change Conference (UNCCC), held in Copenhagen Dec. 7-18, depends on whether you see the glass 95 percent empty or 5 percent full. And how you feel about that extremely modest progress in relation to the planet-wide urgency of the climate…
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This Week’s Climate Report…
COP15: Of course, the biggest climate news is currently coming from Copenhagen, & some of the best reporting from Copenhagen is coming from Democracy Now!, the only independent news show reporting daily from Copenhagen. As might be expected, some of the biggest rifts so far in Copenhagen have been around…
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10 years after the Battle in Seattle
Seattle’s getting ready to celebrate the 10-yr. anniversary of WTO protests. One of the main events is the People’s Summit this weekend. Listings of other events can be found, as well as stories about the event’s meaning & legacy today, in the paper I help publish, Eat the State! Battle…
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The honeymoon is over — time to get busy
I’ve been saying it since before the inauguration: If progressives expect Obama (and the Democratically controlled Congress) to create the kind of policies we want, we have to organize and apply the public pressure to make them do it. We know that the corporate powers, with their enormous influence and…
freelansing in Seattle 