My friend Nate had the good fortune of being in Grant Park last Tuesday evening. He scored a ticket and made his way through the throngs to bear witness to history. He is a gifted writer and precisely the kind of person we all want witnessing history as it unfolds. Take a look at his experience.
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- Keep questioning copyright: All Creative Work Is Derivative
- March 4: two campuses, two experiences
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- Public education deserves your attention…TODAY!
- Quotable: Tommy Bobo
- You can’t afford to be neutral on a moving train. Howard Zinn: 1922-2010
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I am an Assistant Professor of Interactive Media at Johnson County Community College and an independent multimedia communications consultant. Politically, I defy labels. Philosophically, I believe that Ella Wheeler Wilcox was correct when she said, "To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men."
Mantra #1
We owe no allegiance to any government. They owe abject allegiance to us.
Mantra #2
Corporations are not human. Non-humans have no inalienable rights.
Mantra #3
Single-payer or bust!
Mantra #4
It is impossible to awaken someone who is pretending to sleep.
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We must not buy federally-mandated insurance! No single-payer, no sale! No public option, no sale!
Any law that requires an individual to pay money to a private corporation or face criminal penalty is a bad law and must be struck down. I could write pages and pages about the healthcare issues with this bill...![]()
Question Copyright
That’s right, kiddies, copying is not theft! Time to forget the propaganda that you are fed every time you pop a dvd into the player. Oh, it is still a crime thanks to our draconian Digital Millennium Copyright Act, but it is not theft, so don’t feel like you are stealing, because you aren’t. Case in point: Nina Paley....
The biggest story you've never heard
"Sibel Edmonds has a story to tell...It is about massive and systematic corruption of our elected officials and senior bureaucrats with the active connivance of the media. Worse, the corruption was carried out by agents of several foreign governments and involved nuclear secrets stolen from American defense laboratories and military bases that were, in some cases, sold to the highest bidder..."Support Fortuna Faveat!
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