Thursday, April 30, 2020
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
Sunday, April 12, 2020
Saturday, April 11, 2020
On Coronavirus and Ivan Illich
This recent post on our blog applies Ivan Illich’s concept of ‘examined life’ to the responses to COVID-19 and other infectious illnesses, check it out 👇👇https://t.co/GUcbAAoTwR
— LSE Sociology (@LSEsociology) March 25, 2020
Sunday, April 05, 2020
On Hiatus: the Friday Peace Vigil
I just found this out:
http://malu-aina.org/?p=6668
Hilo’s weekly Friday Peace Vigil postponed till further notice
Published by jalbertini on April 3rd, 2020 in Vigil leaflets.
Due to Covid 19, Hilo’s weekly Friday Peace Vigil at the downtown Post Office/Federal Building is postponed until further notice. I’ll continue to write a new weekly peace leaflet and post on our website www.malu-aina.org. Please sign up and encourage your friends to do so to receive our weekly posts. Mahalo. Be safe and Hang in there.
Jim Albertini
http://malu-aina.org/?p=6668
Hilo’s weekly Friday Peace Vigil postponed till further notice
Published by jalbertini on April 3rd, 2020 in Vigil leaflets.
Due to Covid 19, Hilo’s weekly Friday Peace Vigil at the downtown Post Office/Federal Building is postponed until further notice. I’ll continue to write a new weekly peace leaflet and post on our website www.malu-aina.org. Please sign up and encourage your friends to do so to receive our weekly posts. Mahalo. Be safe and Hang in there.
Jim Albertini
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Monday, March 30, 2020
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
Sunday, March 22, 2020
Freddie Gibbs, "Cataracts (Live Session)."
(I just heard of this rapper and song. It was advertised right after an Iggy Azalea video I was watching.)
It samples "Teach Me How" by Wee, another song and group I've just heard of.
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Has the Long Emergency Finally Come to Pass ...
in the form of a plague?
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And I just realized another anniversary has passed of this blog's founding. In 2006, did anyone think we'd be in the midst of a worldwide pandemic?
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And I just realized another anniversary has passed of this blog's founding. In 2006, did anyone think we'd be in the midst of a worldwide pandemic?
Monday, March 16, 2020
Trouble at Truthdig
Senior editors and contributors at @Truthdig announced a work stoppage to protest unfair labor conditions and the attempt by the publisher to remove the Editor-in-Chief and co-owner of the site Robert Scheer. https://t.co/OSkOHs8zJg
— Chris Hedges (@ChrisLynnHedges) March 12, 2020
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
Pantha du Prince, "Approach in a Breeze"
It was last night, as I browsed the front page of All Music Guide, when I first heard of Pantha du Prince and his new album, Conference of Trees. According to the site, this album "opens up into more acoustic ambience than ever before."
Ignatius
Jadakiss has just released a new album and it includes the song "Me", released late last year as a single.
Saturday, February 29, 2020
Saturday, February 22, 2020
Sounds About (Left)
This seems like a good description of various left media.
Forums.Hipinion.com: All Things Left of Liberal
by genghis sean » Wed Aug 29, 2012 4:55 pm
What are some radical left/strong left periodicals to read that are well written and more professional/academic than things like Raw Story
New Left Review - http://newleftreview.org/ has been the standard bearer of the academic left for much of the past 45 years or so. almost all of the prominent leftist intellectuals have been published in it and its usually populated by many of the leading figures of the academic left from issue to issue. its a journal though so accessibility varies greatly from article to article. New Left Review's publishing arm is Verso Books ( http://www.versobooks.com/ ), a major and fantastic source for Left publications (lots of good stuff regularly available on their website as well). A great deal of the books published in this thread are published by Verso.
A longstanding fixture of american democratic socialism is In These Times ( http://www.inthesetimes.com/ ), notable amongst other things for being Kurt Vonnegut's favorite publication. They would stand more to the left of Mother Jones, which sort of straddles a democratic socialist and social-democratic bent, and The Nation, who is further right and mainly articulates social-democratic and left liberal sentiment. I do actually read both Mother Jones and The Nation with some regularity, they can have good content even if they're both guilty of the shallow defining-ourselves-as-just-against-republican-stupidity deal that defines far too much of the liberal media.
you've probably already seen a lot of references to Jacobin ( http://www.jacobinmag.com ) in this thread and it along with The New Inquiry (though TNI specializes more in cultural critique even if I would define it as generally left of liberal) are defined by their superior writing, accessibility, mixture of web/print content, and generally written by people of hipinion's general generational bracket.
A bit British-oriented but still tons of great academic-oriented content from the newish New Left Project ( http://www.newleftproject.org/ ). Famous for its longstanding association with Noam Chomsky is Z magazine ( http://www.zcommunications.org/zmag ), which leans libertarian socialist/academic anarchist. I don't check their content super frequently but I've read a lot of good things from them.
Truthout ( http://truth-out.org/ ) is certainly the leading Left source for sorta Huffington Post style amalgamated news and opinion. I make sure to check it out everday. Reader Supported News ( http://readersupportednews.org/ ) is another quality source in this vain. Both of them are ostensibly 'progressive' oriented though certainly left of liberal. Both Common Dreams ( http://www.commondreams.org/ ) and Truthdig ( http://www.truthdig.com ) are sources of original content in a Democracy Now! vein. Oh yeah, Democracy Now! is always a good source of video ( http://www.democracynow.org/ ).
Maybe my favorite video-based site is The Real News, which offers very sober and serious analysis, usually packaged into 10 minute pieces. I'm a big fan of these guys and especially Paul Jay. This isn't received wisdom, hearsay and rash inferences - if a point is to be made its usually going to be established. Lots of good economics content too for econ nerds like me. Their collection of youtubes that they gather is also a valuable source.
For a mixture of art and Left politics there is Guernica Magazine ( http://www.guernicamag.com/ ), Idiom Magazine ( http://idiommag.com/ ) and Art Threat ( http://artthreat.net/ ) all of which I would certainly recommend.
For more ostensibly Marxist academic analysis there is Platypus 1917 ( http://platypus1917.org/ ), an organization who hosts panels and fora as well as publishes the Platypus Review, which is worth reading every month its published. I'm in the midst of trying to get a Platypus chapter up and operational in montreal and know a bunch from Platypus personally. Mostly of a post-Trotskyist bent but really the publish a very wide range of left of liberal views and content. To see what the diehard Maoists are up to these days there's the Kasama Project ( http://kasamaproject.org/ ), whom I really don't identify with but I often find it interesting to see what they're thinking about and discussing - usually lots to do with Nepal and South America.
I know I'm missing a lot of shit right now but I think that's a pretty decent start.
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Forums.Hipinion.com: All Things Left of Liberal
by genghis sean » Wed Aug 29, 2012 4:55 pm
What are some radical left/strong left periodicals to read that are well written and more professional/academic than things like Raw Story
New Left Review - http://newleftreview.org/ has been the standard bearer of the academic left for much of the past 45 years or so. almost all of the prominent leftist intellectuals have been published in it and its usually populated by many of the leading figures of the academic left from issue to issue. its a journal though so accessibility varies greatly from article to article. New Left Review's publishing arm is Verso Books ( http://www.versobooks.com/ ), a major and fantastic source for Left publications (lots of good stuff regularly available on their website as well). A great deal of the books published in this thread are published by Verso.
A longstanding fixture of american democratic socialism is In These Times ( http://www.inthesetimes.com/ ), notable amongst other things for being Kurt Vonnegut's favorite publication. They would stand more to the left of Mother Jones, which sort of straddles a democratic socialist and social-democratic bent, and The Nation, who is further right and mainly articulates social-democratic and left liberal sentiment. I do actually read both Mother Jones and The Nation with some regularity, they can have good content even if they're both guilty of the shallow defining-ourselves-as-just-against-republican-stupidity deal that defines far too much of the liberal media.
you've probably already seen a lot of references to Jacobin ( http://www.jacobinmag.com ) in this thread and it along with The New Inquiry (though TNI specializes more in cultural critique even if I would define it as generally left of liberal) are defined by their superior writing, accessibility, mixture of web/print content, and generally written by people of hipinion's general generational bracket.
A bit British-oriented but still tons of great academic-oriented content from the newish New Left Project ( http://www.newleftproject.org/ ). Famous for its longstanding association with Noam Chomsky is Z magazine ( http://www.zcommunications.org/zmag ), which leans libertarian socialist/academic anarchist. I don't check their content super frequently but I've read a lot of good things from them.
Truthout ( http://truth-out.org/ ) is certainly the leading Left source for sorta Huffington Post style amalgamated news and opinion. I make sure to check it out everday. Reader Supported News ( http://readersupportednews.org/ ) is another quality source in this vain. Both of them are ostensibly 'progressive' oriented though certainly left of liberal. Both Common Dreams ( http://www.commondreams.org/ ) and Truthdig ( http://www.truthdig.com ) are sources of original content in a Democracy Now! vein. Oh yeah, Democracy Now! is always a good source of video ( http://www.democracynow.org/ ).
Maybe my favorite video-based site is The Real News, which offers very sober and serious analysis, usually packaged into 10 minute pieces. I'm a big fan of these guys and especially Paul Jay. This isn't received wisdom, hearsay and rash inferences - if a point is to be made its usually going to be established. Lots of good economics content too for econ nerds like me. Their collection of youtubes that they gather is also a valuable source.
For a mixture of art and Left politics there is Guernica Magazine ( http://www.guernicamag.com/ ), Idiom Magazine ( http://idiommag.com/ ) and Art Threat ( http://artthreat.net/ ) all of which I would certainly recommend.
For more ostensibly Marxist academic analysis there is Platypus 1917 ( http://platypus1917.org/ ), an organization who hosts panels and fora as well as publishes the Platypus Review, which is worth reading every month its published. I'm in the midst of trying to get a Platypus chapter up and operational in montreal and know a bunch from Platypus personally. Mostly of a post-Trotskyist bent but really the publish a very wide range of left of liberal views and content. To see what the diehard Maoists are up to these days there's the Kasama Project ( http://kasamaproject.org/ ), whom I really don't identify with but I often find it interesting to see what they're thinking about and discussing - usually lots to do with Nepal and South America.
I know I'm missing a lot of shit right now but I think that's a pretty decent start.
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