LEFT IN EAST DAKOTA

Fargo rock city

2008-07-04T01:14:00.009-05:00

People complain that there's nothing to do here, but I think a lot of times they aren't looking hard enough. Come hear some live music! Good music too, not shitty cover bands playing Tom Petty songs we've all heard a zillion times.

Steve Earle is playing the Fargo Theatre on July 18th (which I can't make it to) and The Aquarium's summer lineup is looking good.

This is The Dodos (they play Monday night at the Aquarium)

Here's a list of a few other bands that are slated to play Fargo during the next couple months: Bob Log III, Son Ambulance, Jennifer O'Connor, The Mother Truckers, The Hold Steady, Jay Reatard, Buffalo Killers, Supersuckers, Xiu Xiu, Handsome Furs, and Okkervil River.

If you like indie rock, and you live in the area, you're in for a treat.

Don't you dare question John McCain's past

2008-07-02T00:22:00.018-05:00

Wow. Wesley Clark, a former presidential candidate and killer of Vietnamese, Serbs and Kosovans, has ended any chance he had at being Obama's veep. His comment about John McCain, while obvious, uncontroversial and true, really got the statists going. How dare he question McCain! McCain killed just as many "gooks" as general Clark did! Probably more. Actually, that could be what Clark is getting at. All those naval aviators had to do was fly over villages and press a button to destroy them. The ground troops had to deal with crying mothers clinging to their babies, not to mention the fuckers that actually had the gall to fight back, as they destroyed villages. It took longer, it was more dangerous, and they rarely got the hottest girl.

Much like the value of our currency, the state only exists in our minds. But it is a powerful existence indeed. I mean, what has anyone in Guantanamo done to us that compares to what John McCain did to the Vietnamese? McCain gets to be a hero and have a good chance at becoming the most powerful person in the world and the prisoner in Guantanamo, who got picked up during a random sweep in Afghanistan, gets to spend a half decade or more of his life locked up without charges, then, if he's lucky, sent back to his home to live under the occupation of the same people who just released him from his jail cell. This is only because Afghanistan and Vietnam are not the United States. If the tables were turned McCain would be dead or forgotten. Such is the logic of the state. As long as violence flows in the right direction, it is perfectly OK. Fuck, it is more than OK, it is your duty. If the state demands it, you must kill. But just make sure that your state is more of a global power than your enemy's state. Then, even if you get your ass handed to you by a bunch of "savages" hiding in tunnels, you could still possibly rule the world.

Conservatives, liberals, Obama: what's the difference?

2008-06-29T01:05:00.020-05:00

Steven Colbert does a wonderful impression of the modern conservative's view on race (or at least he used to, I stopped watching after he crossed the picket line). Colbert claims that he doesn't see race- literally. He physically can't see the color of his skin, or anyone else's, therefore he can't be a racist when he advocates absurd policies that obviously benefit the largely white ruling class. It's funny, but it also is an actual tactic many conservatives use when debating race sensitive issues. Instead of claiming they are literally colorblind, however, they simply ignore the historical context of situations and pretend everyone is on equal footing. It is disingenuous, callous, and for lack of a better word, racist. It is the preferred strategy of the owner of North Dakota's most popular collection of links, a "I'm pro-war but too busy to fight" pussy named Rob Port. Rob claims not to understand why portraying Barack Obama as a monkey is different than portraying George Bush as one. Considering chattel slavery was still alive and well up until the second world war, and given the ease to find examples of rampant racial inequality in today's society, it is safe to assume people like Rob simply long for the "good old days" when blacks, and other troublesome non-whites, knew their place.

But it isn't just conservatives who use race to refuse challenging the power structure. After Ralph Nader's recent comments, many liberals have been attacking him with an intensity they don't dare attack John McCain with (they would never bring up McCain's role in the murders of countless men, women and children in Vietnam). This is exactly why most "progressives" are pathetic. Rather than hold Obama accountable for his disgusting stances on the telecom immunity bill, the death penalty, Israel, his failure to support healthcare for all, his failure to support same-sex marriage, and a host of other issues; they attack Nader for having the gall to question their messiah. They join conservatives in pleading ignorance about the meaning behind terms like "white talk" and "white guilt."

Nader was right. On Father's Day, for example, instead of talking about the steady decline of wages affecting all families, Obama attacked black fathers in an apparent attempt to convince the "blacks are lazy" voter to give him a second look. That's not even "talking white," that's talking white supremacist. Perhaps if black fathers, as well as fathers and mothers from any other race, had a job that paid a living wage without working hours upon hours of overtime, they'd actually have time to spend with their children, and you know, raise them. They could even sit them down for a real meal rather than feeding them "cold Popeye's" and "eight sodas" or whatever other bullshit generic accusation the Obama campaign's version of Nixon-era Kevin Phillips comes up with. We reap what we sow. We can't have a society that rewards the worst aspects of humanity and not have a few dead-beat dads. Until issues like the dictatorship of industry by the few and the commoditization of the human experience are addressed, it is hard to take the "personal responsibility" crowd very seriously.

Also, Nader is not implying that blacks are monolithic in their concerns, as some liberals are saying. Anyone who has read or watched the comments should easily realize how nonsensical this claim is. He is arguing that someone who is not part of the dominant culture ought to have better insight regarding issues that overwhelmingly affect minority cultures. Nader, an Arab American, knows the situation well. Again, this is the same disingenuous logic that conservatives use when it benefits their world view.

This "controversy" shows that not only are "progressives" still not willing to back an actual progressive candidate, they are still willing to throw one under the bus faster than Obama can say Reverend Wright.

Elitism and a profane drinking song

2008-06-27T01:55:00.018-05:00

Many people give Nixon's spin doctors credit for transforming the meaning of the word "elite." After their propagandizing, economic elitism turned into cultural elitism. Going after liberals for being "out of touch with mainstream America" has been a favorite strategy for conservatives ever since. Elitism, however, has always had a cultural element to it, and it's mainly been conservatives who've been the elitists. While many of today's liberals are also elitists, it is largely in the economic sense of the word. (Which is exactly why they are part of the problem and why I jumped ship, but that's another story.)

Conservatives are elitists. Whether it be their food, their drink, their god, or their language; conservatives have sought to eliminate any aspect of a culture that won't, or doesn't, fit into the boundaries of their world view. Language is especially interesting to me. Why do we scold children for saying "shit," or other words deemed profane? Because hundreds of years ago the poor on the streets of London said shit, and it wasn't proper for any decent person, any "person of the church," to use such language. Talk about elitism.

Anyway, the above paragraphs were just a way for me to justify playing the following alcohol-infused, anti-elite, sea song. The first version is done by Loudon Wainwright III (father to Rufus and Martha) and the second one is by the Sex Pistols. (The videos suck, but the songs are worth it.)

The proletarians of the sea were about as far from elite as you can get.

I'll miss you George

2008-06-25T00:06:00.000-05:00

This is from one of his last interviews:

"There is a certain amount of righteous indignation I hold for this culture, because to get back to the real root of it, to get broader about it, my opinion that is my species--and my culture in America specifically--have let me down and betrayed me. I think this species had great, great promise, with this great upper brain that we have, and I think we squandered it on God and Mammon. And I think this culture of ours has such promise, with the promise of real, true freedom, and then everyone has been shackled by ownership and possessions and acquisition and status and power. And perhaps it's just a human weakness and an inevitable human story that these things happen. But there's disillusionment and some discontent in me about it. I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist. But I understand the word 'cynic' has more than one meaning, and I see how I could be seen as cynical. 'George, you're cynical.' Well, you know, they say if you scratch a cynic you find a disappointed idealist. And perhaps the flame still flickers a little, you know?"

"The Spiral Staircase"

2008-06-23T00:10:00.013-05:00

The following was written by my younger brother Aaron. He, along with his wife Nadia, is moving from Fargo to Ho Chi Minh City at the end of the month. The picture is from the Library of Congress. It was taken during the Civil War. Aaron served in the national guard from high school until he was done with college last year.

"The M16 A2 Carbine rifle is able to disperse the underprivileged."

At the moment, I am feeling danceable in flannel, touring all-night diners with my pregnant styrofoam cup. I've been opening doors for it. It tastes like rice cakes, cardboard, and red meat authorities wearing Stalin's mustache and an American Flag do-rag, copulating my ministry of incisors. Conversations continue.
Shut up please.
"If we allow gays to marry, people will want to marry their parakeet and goldfish, and the Viet communists will take over Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and the hearts and minds of the Iraqistani people will not flutter with those freedom-loving bombs," It's Mr. General Douglas MacArthur, the "liberator of the Philippines." He liberated one million of them. The rest were sold into colonial slavery for 20 million. Just ask the Treaty of Paris. His medal of honor tells a different story, "the greatest threat to the nation is Islamofascism, affordable and nonprofit anything, along with the Mexican'ts who crossed the border that first crossed them."
"Hey, military intervention and even the greatest minds of the thirteenth century are all afraid of my freedom's fries." I couldn't say it. We still don't say "French" here.
"Military intervention, in essence, the C-130 is a converted cargo plane with numerous gatling and mini-guns, a modern version of the gunships used to win the heats and minds of the suspected 'crim-animals,' women and children included, of Vietnam.
The precision is limited. Ask Iraq, Iraq, Iraq, Somalia, and Afghanistan."
"Pass the Ranch Dressing."
Shut up please.
"For god so drown the world that he forgot to tell the aborigines about his only begotten son; made the Mogadishians perfect in his image, but forgot about sustenance," a regular Jerry Falwell, father of the civil-wrongs movement, as he celebrates his apocalyptic view with prepubescent, premillennial, pre-tribulational tears of the second comings puritanical gardens. "And is there nothing holy writ about the family values of mercantile capitalism?"
"I'd like a pillar of salt, super-sized with a few packets of the underprivileged. This is not Grandma's cooking. Did they use a breast pump?"
"No, sorry. We're having trouble conceiving family values out of my sick maternity leave, late lactating from my fifteen-minute break. Did someone mention the underprivileged?"
Shut up please.
"The M16 A2 Carbine rifle is able to disperse the underprivileged with 5.62mm single or three round bursts of God's holy imagination fountains, dried up and overflowing with mercantile hidden valley ranch and blood from the last of the Mogadishians."
"One nation underprivileged, with big business libertarians and an Orange Julius for all."
Shut up please.
At the moment, I am feeling ignorant in gunships, touring all-night wastelands with my M16 A2 Carbine rifle. I've been opening doors for it. It tastes like one nation underprivileged, military intervention, and red meat authorities wearing Stalin's mustache and an American flag do-rag. Conversations continue. Shut up please.

Save "THE EXILE!"

2008-06-19T00:31:00.037-05:00

During Russia's market reforms of the Yeltsin era, many journalists bought into the "end of history" nonsense pushed by western intellectuals. They rarely, if ever, reported on the less pretty side of the reforms. The eXile, a Moscow-based English-language publication, became a forum for attacking those journalists, as well as bringing up a number of other controversial topics. It appears that Medvedev's goons have scared away investors and the paper is set to fold. I started reading the paper's website after I heard it mentioned on This is Hell and have been a fan ever since.

To give you an idea of the paper's style, a couple staff members once baked a pie made of horse sperm and threw it into the face of the NY Times' former Moscow bureau chief, Michael Wines. (I couldn't find any video of the event.)

Recently, according to Wednesday's print version of the WSJ, they got into some trouble by trying to publish photos of a protest "in which Moscow university students had sex in a public museum near an exhibit of a stuffed bear." Apparently Medvedev means "bear" in Russian and the students were mocking the President's comments on Russia's population decline. They didn't get it published, but who else would've even tried?

It takes some courage to go to a country you were taught to hate and report on their political situation, their politicians, their nightlife, and whatever the hell else you want. This paper deserves to continue.

2008-06-16T02:28:00.003-05:00

I love Mr. Fish.

Ya Ossas

2008-06-13T01:15:00.013-05:00

The song is by famous Lebanese pop singer Julia Boutros. Boutros, a Christian, is also famous for her support of Hezbollah and the resistance to Israeli occupation and aggression. I am told the title means "our stories" and the song is reminiscing about a more peaceful time in the region. I have a feeling it is an ode to Arab nationalism.

I hear about different Arab pop singers at work and I go home and look them up. I am interested more in traditional music, but I like this.

Eight hours a day, five days a week, year after year; one would think it would be easy to run out of things to talk about, but we haven't yet. I'm even turning into a soccer fan. I totally picked Croatia to win yesterday. It keeps me from insanity while dealing with, and fighting against, alienation from the means of production.

Taking a "new look" at farming?

2008-06-11T02:57:00.007-05:00

It took the death of millions, but is a bit of common sense finally taking hold?

A growing number of World Bank economists are now convinced most poor nations need a healthy farm sector as the basis of a robust economy.

Forget a "robust economy," people need a healthy farm sector so they can have something to fucking eat.

Only recently has the World Bank acknowledged the damage caused by its advice. In a report released in October, the Bank's Independent Evaluation Group cited the decline in agriculture spending and a scattershot approach to funding, concluding that the Washington institution had neglected African farmers. It noted the Bank devoted just 9% of its total lending in sub-Saharan Africa from 1991 to 2006 to agriculture, even though the vast majority of the poor depended on agriculture for their livelihoods.

Much like the mafia, the World Bank tends to give advice you just can't not accept. Unfortunately, this group of bureaucrats is less than likely to face any sort of criminal charges for their "mistakes."

Heavy metal rules!

2008-06-06T01:13:00.003-05:00

The film is called Heavy Metal in Baghdad, and it looks wonderful. Louis Proyect has more.

They aren't worried, and they shouldn't be

2008-06-03T01:42:00.006-05:00

I love the Wall Street Journal. The enemy reports what's going on in the world, what they think about it, and for a small fee, delivers it to my door. The following was written by Timothy J. Lynch and Robert S. Singh:

Want more George W. Bush foreign policy? Elect John McCain – or Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. Regardless of who wins in November, the current foreign policy will live on in the next White House.

None of the main candidates has disavowed the war on terror. Each has called Mr. Bush tactically deficient. But the debate over the war on terror is over how, where and when. The candidates have all argued that they would do a better job of fighting it.

It is quite hilarious it took two "academic" minds to point out what myself and others have been saying on the factory floor since the beginning of the year, but you have to give them some respect for being able to rise above the "hope" bullshit of the liberals and the "Obama is a leftist" bullshit of other conservatives. The authors go on to mention:

The last great liberal hope to win the White House – Bill Clinton – committed more troops to more parts of the globe than any president since World War II. Since the end of the Cold War, America has undertaken at least nine military interventions overseas, under three presidents of both parties in two distinct historical eras (pre- and post-9/11). This history suggests that the next great liberal hope – Mr. Obama or Mrs. Clinton – would probably continue the trend.

Again, nothing new, but try telling this to a hope drunk Obama supporter.

Sonnet on Hope by Richard Lattimore

Bedraggled daughter of Desire and Fear,
she'll glaze your eyes and sing your brain to sleep,
pour siren's wax and honey in your ear.
Hope, self-seduced and simple, counting her sheep.
The painted Hope, blind, whispering, and with wings.
The baby-sitter in the abandoned chair
waiting beside a phone that never rings,
dreaming of cradles and fixed calendars,
and the clock stopped forever, and the glass
sucking its sand back in, the never-was
world come again, new-made and clean of scars.
I fled from Hope and found her everywhere,
barefoot and bold in all her slattern charms,
with a two-headed baby in her arms.

Fargo is not Fargo

2008-06-02T00:55:00.008-05:00

This is cool.

The website is done by a French-born, Toronto-based anthropologist that came to Fargo to visit his girlfriend. Oliver, the guy interviewed from Burundi, is a friend of mine. The dude from Montreal hits the nail on the head with his analysis.

C'mon "progressives," put your money where your mouth is

2008-06-01T21:22:00.007-05:00

From the Nader/Gonzalez campaign's website:

Nader/Gonzalez would cut the bloated, wasteful military budget.

Earlier this year, President Bush announced a military budget of over $600 billion.

And that's not counting the full cost of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The proposed military budget represents 58 cents out of every dollar spent by the U.S. government on discretionary programs - the items that Congress gets to vote up or down on an annual basis.

The Democrats and Republicans have been silent about this rapid escalation in military expenditures, despite many critical reports by the Government Accountability Office and Pentagon auditors.

In fact, they want to increase them.

Barack Obama, for example, has said that he wants to "bump up" the military budget.

Hillary Clinton and Obama have committed themselves to increasing the armed forces by tens of thousands of troops.

John McCain would outdo them both.

As budget analyst William Hartung points out "the United States is already spending more for defense than all the other nations in the world combined."

Hartung points out that tens of billions of dollars are being wasted on systems like the F-22 fighter plane, the V-22 Osprey (a helicopter that can be transformed into a conventional aircraft), the Virginia class submarine, and an unworkable and unnecessary missile defense system.

Right now, the military budget is being used to fuel wasteful, reckless, destabilizing foreign interventions that violate constitutional and international law.

Nader/Gonzalez would cut the military budget to a level needed to protect the country.

Appeasement?

2008-05-27T00:06:00.009-05:00

I've been more inclined to believe that it's the empire that holds sway over Israel's foreign policy rather than the other way around, as folks like Walt and Mearsheimer famously argue. Recently, however, I had to pause and give this some thought. As McCain and Bush continue to denounce liberal hawks like Barack Obama for suggesting we talk to our "enemies," echoing the nationalist screams of pseudo-soldiers from sea to sea last year when liberal hawk Nancy Pelosi put a hijab on and actually did some talking, Israel decided to meet up with one-third of the "axis of evil" in Turkey. Iran wasn't happy, but the US of A was. Israel, whose president resigned last year amid a rape charge and whose current prime minister is under investigation (again) for taking bribes, appears to be doing exactly what McCain and Bush attack Obama for suggesting. Dr. Rice said, "The United States is very pleased to have good allies like Turkey taking a central role in making an effort to bring about a peace in which the basis for terrorism will be undone." Hmmm.

Really, I don't buy the "Israel controls the US" bit. Do they have some undue influence? Perhaps, but just because you have a seat at the table doesn't mean you get to sit in Papa's seat. In reality, Bush and McCain don't give a shit about whether we talk to "the bad guys" or not. This is simply a way to get the chest-thumping, flag-waving, Rob "the skull measurer" Port type activists all riled up. Just like when you accidentally bump into them in a crowded bar or check out their girlfriend's ass, they simply won't let this issue go. We don't talk, we fight! It also works in making many liberals feel like they must support someone like Barack Obama, who wants to expand the deadliest bureaucracy in the world, because if the blackshirts attack his slightly more nuanced view with this much fervor, it would seem unlikely any other tactic could even be suggested. This keeps the debate stuck in this "all options are on the table" paradigm that condemns people who are honestly looking for peace, like Jimmy Carter, and has moronic pundits and politicians trying to sound historical by bringing up poor old Neville Chamberlain, who has become the universal symbol of pussiness.

If you think Israel should stop doing what Milosevic was condemned for and we should guarantee Iran, Syria, and others, that we won't overthrow their governments- you aren't crazy. In fact, I dare say the majority of people in the world agree with you. There is no need to settle for a centrist that talks vaguely about hope. The real "appeasement" happens when you allow a few proudly stupid brutes define the debate.

Family's value

2008-05-21T00:18:00.003-05:00

From May's Harper's Index-

Number of nations that do not legally guarantee women any paid maternity leave: 4

Average annual per-capita income in the three other than the United States: $1226

elections = yawn

2008-05-19T03:13:00.006-05:00

The real primaries/caucuses were done last year. Those with money pick the six or seven candidates that they can live with, and we get to pretend we have a democracy.

This is what is offered.

Countless people spend countless hours analyzing each candidate, telling us how this one is horrible for this reason, that one is horrible for that reason, this one will fight until the last terrorist is dead, that one will bring change to the white house (but is still super tough on terrorists, don't forget, Pakistan you're sooo invaded if we get any "slam dunk" evidence that OBL is signing autographs or something on your side of the Khyber Pass). It is past the point of any real seriousness. Pundits will talk for hours on end about one sentence. They will act as if you can know a person from hearing one sentence. Sometimes they actually say stuff like "you can know a person from hearing one sentence." I swear I heard someone on CNN say that. Candidates are careful never to utter a word that hasn't been tested on focus groups. When they are caught being human, they promptly apologize and go back to script.

"Test groups give a less positive reaction to the word win, lets go with victory."

It's a wonder the marketing gurus that run campaigns don't wise up and have the candidates sell products as well. They're already on TV.

"Yes, yes, we all want change, but not all change is good. Do I have to remind anyone about 'new' Coke? I have been drinking Pepsi ever since."

At least the people that drive cars really fast in a big circle have enough integrity to plaster themselves with the names of their sponsors.

Do you want to have a beer with him? Would you take a shot with her? How about with him? Does he even drink beer? I wonder if any of them would be good in the sack? Would you fuck any of the candidates? I would, only after I had a few beers with them though.

60 years

2008-05-16T00:08:00.003-05:00

Recently a lot of words have been written reflecting on the birth of Israel- I believe these are some of the best. Lenny is an IDF veteran and peace activist based in Amsterdam.

(A perfect compliment to Lenny's wonderful piece is this interview with Ghada Karmi.)

Portishead... finally!

2008-05-14T02:36:00.010-05:00

Portishead's last album (I'm counting their live album) came out when I was nearly done high school. Now their new album comes out when I'm nearly done college. Coincidence?

It took me double-digit listens to get into this album (and nearly double-digit years to stay enrolled long enough to get an f'n two year degree), but I am now ready to say it is my favorite.

I'm done with school later today. Good riddance.

The working class and the employing class have nothing in common

2008-05-11T01:08:00.012-05:00

This is the sorry state of business unions, from the WSJ-

Two of the nation's largest labor unions [SEIU and UNITE HERE] have struck confidential agreements with large employers that give the companies the right to designate which of their locations, and how many workers, the unions can seek to organize.

The agreements are raising questions about union transparency and workers' rights. A summary document put together by the unions says it is critical to the success of the partnership "that we honor the confidentiality and not publicly disclose the existence of these agreements." That includes not disclosing them to union members.

The article goes on to mention that the deal demands the unions give up their right to strike as well. All this for a card check system, something that even has measurable political support. Andy Stern wanted off the Democratic Party's tit only because he wanted to latch on to corporate America's tit. That, of course, is nothing that wasn't known, but disgusting nonetheless.

The IWW is more relevant, and needed, than ever.

Pissing in the wind

2008-05-09T00:58:00.014-05:00

I desire, dream, fight, educate, and yes, sometimes even unbelievingly pray, to be part of the mainstream.

Perhaps it's just a Midwest thing, but why is it so hard to find a revolutionary worker and so easy to find a goddamn lifestyle anarchist? Is it the shitty music, the brave boycott of the corporate soap makers, or the promise of pissing off your suburban mom and pop when you waste your college fund on dope and cross-country trips?

I don't deny the potential of groups like CrimethInc., but when they choose self-exile, the logical question is: Who the fuck gives a fuck?

Have fun trading "zines" at the "really really free market," we'll be trying to organize the working class into OBU. Actually, we could use some help. But then again, the CrimethInc. collective is for "ex-workers." 'Cause working is for idiots. So says the powerless leisure class.

"What keeps mankind alive?"

2008-05-08T00:53:00.006-05:00

Kurt Weill's pertinent tune- sang by Mirah, music played by the Black Cat Orchestra.

(There used to be an mp3 file here, but I'm having issues with "box.net." I'll figure out a new way to post music soon.)

"CAFOs uncovered"

2008-05-05T00:06:00.016-05:00

This is Hell (best show on the radio, seriously, check it out) had a wonderfully informative interview with Doug Gurian-Sherman, who is the senior scientist in the Food and Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. He just issued a report on CAFOs (confined animal feeding operations) called CAFOs Uncovered. This issue really touches home as my parents live next to one of these toxic shit releasing concentration camps. One of the myths of mass confinement operations is they're more efficient than traditional smaller operations. Many people, including myself, assumed that the one possible positive thing about them would be higher production in food. That's not the case at all, production has largely stayed the same since the introduction of CAFOs. What has changed is the agriculture industry. It has largely been centralized into a few hands that have ever increasing wealth, which obviously brings ever increasing power. Surprise, surprise.

(I forgot to add this last night, but I post Sunday mornings at The Peace Tree. Yesterday, I reposted a piece I wrote last year on the ongoing destruction of Somalia. Sunday saw thousands in central Somalia protest the latest U.S. terrorist attack against them. Today, food protests have hit Mogadishu.)

'nuff said

2008-05-03T02:38:00.008-05:00

Fuck it. CNN is still talking about it. Mr. Fish via Guys From Area 51.

(UPDATE: The Pagan Temple on the double standard between wacky white and wacky black preachers.)

Happy May Day!

2008-05-01T02:49:00.006-05:00

Best wishes to all fellow workers of the world!
(In the spirit of solidarity, check out the IWW's mission to Haiti. The well written updates give wonderful insight into Haitian life and the struggle against capitalism.)