In just a few weeks the Democratic National Convention will be held in Denver, Colorado, where I live. For the past few months leading up to it I have been organizing with Alliance for Real Democracy (ARD), one of the local formations that is building towards a week of protests, teach-ins, and concerts at this [...]

Reposted from Marxmail * * * John Halle, who teaches music at Bard College and has been active with the Green Party, forwarded me a letter he received recently from the Democratic Party hopeful: Dear friends on the left, Hobgoblins, small minds and stupid consistency go together, as Locke reminded us, so I suppose it [...]

We need to be drawing attention to the brick wall of capitalism every time we hit it, acknowledging that we don’t just need to find a way over it but how to knock it down. But what about while we are blocked by the brick wall? Well, it is worthwhile when we are making a [...]