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WTO+25
On this 25th anniversary week of WTO protests, I’ll reshare this thing I wrote 5 years ago. A truly transformative time. ********* As we approach the 20th anniversary of the WTO protests in Seattle, I think about how there must be thousands of first-hand accounts of those historic days. So…
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Life choices
I don’t usually post about my personal life on this blog, but this thing I wrote elsewhere seems somehow relevant. Maybe relevant to a lot of aging activists in similar circumstances. Some Thanksgiving conversations with family got me thinking about my life choices and life trajectory. How do I concisely…
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Open Letter to ‘Gaza Voters’ in Swing States
I’ve had some “spirited” conversations with friends who are outraged by Israel’s murderous and criminal behavior in Gaza and the US support for it. I share that outrage and found myself agreeing with these friends about the morality of the situation. But we’ve strongly disagreed about the politics of it,…
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Looking back at 2009
Some things just got weirder in 2009. Tom Tomorrow looks back at the year in crazy. Although the wingnuts are easy to laugh at, they should not be taken lightly. They are poisoning public discourse and encouraging misinformed and unstable people to greater misplaced anger and extremism. Many of those…
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Look out world!
I’ve started blogging. Well, perhaps it’s an overstatement to say I’ve already started. But I’ll be starting soon!
freelansing in Seattle 