Juan Conatz maintains the Workers Power archive over at libcom. He’s fallen a bit behind with the archive this year but in the last few days he’s put everything that run in the Industrial Worker thus far in 2013 on-line. The March Industrial Worker featured a great column by the ever fabulous Liberte Locke called “Christmas at Starbucks.” Read it here.
Here’s a new poem inspired by the warmer weather. The Same Blessed Nothing The mayfly and Iare the same. Cellophane wings tear,crinkle iridescent,as spring arrives. The mayfly and Iare the same. Everythingis the same blessednothingin the spaceof the infinite. The luminescent turningof star dust to star dust,the slow lumpy unwindingof energy into stillness. The mayfly and Iare the same,our...
I am working on a term paper about the Spanish Civil War at the moment. This afternoon I came across a quote from Murray Bookchin describing anarchism. It is one of my favorite descriptions: Unlike Marxism, with its founders, distinct body of texts, and clearly definable ideology, anarchistic ideals are difficult to fix into a hard and fast credo. Anarchism is a great libidinal movement of...
“Workers Power” is seeking submissions. The longest running regular feature in the “Industrial Worker,” the Industrial Workers of the World’s monthly newspaper, “Workers Power” is a curated monthly column that features reflections on workplace organizing and the strategies and tactics necessary to build a democratic, radical, and anti-capitalist labor movement. Contributors have included many...
Someone put a rare mix from legendary Detroit DJ Ken Collier up on mixcloud. For those that don’t know, which I assume is just about everyone who reads this blog, Ken Collier was one of the big earlier DJs from Detroit and, therefore, one of the pioneers of techno, house and dance music in general. He’s been compared to Larry Levan and Ron Hardy. People like Derrick May and Chez...
A friend of mine, who is also a scholar, has blog called What in the Hell? in which he poses questions that he has come across in his work or his organizing and then tries to answer them. At the moment I am working on a bibliographical essay on race and performativity. One of the terms that the authors I am reading tend to like a lot is genealogy. Apparently, this is a term that is related to the...
Earlier this month I preached my sermon “Unknown Visions of Love” at First Parish in Milton, Unitarian Universalist. Apparently the congregation records and uploads video of all of their services. If you’d like to see me preaching you can view the video here. Once I’m done with finals I’ll probably spend some time analyzing the video to see if I can figure out some...
One of my undergraduate degrees is essentially in poetry. I still occasionally write poems. Here’s one now. It came to me while biking to school this morning. A Game, Remembered Now let us praise small things:glinted asphalt;spring cerulean sky;Homer’s words about our star;wind penetrating bone;the ball’s unsettled arc, thrown by a small child, my son;unworded sounds, delight...
I have three new preaching dates to announce. I will be preaching at the First Parish in Milton on April 14, 2013 and the First Parish in Concord on June 30 and August 4, 2013. Look for an announcement about more summer dates in the near future.
Recently, I wrote a paper for a course I took with Harvey Cox on the theological views of the civil rights activist, labor lawyer and radical theorist Staughton Lynd. I interviewed Lynd as part of my research and he’s given me permission to publish the transcript from the interview. I hope to turn the article into a journal article over the summer. As such, I am not posting it. Reading...