Showing posts with label Hist of US 1973 - Present. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hist of US 1973 - Present. Show all posts
Sunday, November 23, 2014

US History 1973 - 2014 Commonplace Book: Lecture 32, America in 2014: Inequality (Con't)

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Little piece of cornbread sitting on the shelf: If you want any more, you can sing it yourself. —Traditional children's song Introdu...
Saturday, November 22, 2014

US History 1973 - 2014 Commonplace Book: Lecture 32, America in 2014: Inequality (Con't)

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Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made ...
Friday, November 21, 2014

US History 1973 - 2014 Commonplace Book: Lecture 32, America in 2014: Inequality (Con't)

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In the United States, our findings indicate, the majority does not rule -- at least not in the causal sense of actually determining policy ...
Thursday, November 20, 2014

US History 1973 - 2014 Commonplace Book: Lecture 32, America in 2014: Inequality (Con't)

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Since coming back to the United States after three years away in China, I have been asking experts around the country whether America is fi...
Wednesday, November 19, 2014

US History 1973 - 2014 Commonplace Book: Lecture 32, America in 2014: Inequality (Con't)

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The real fear today is that the world we now live in was intended by those who profit from it. — John Clute Introduction to (and explanat...
Tuesday, November 18, 2014

US History 1973 - 2014 Commonplace Book: Lecture 32, America in 2014: Inequality (Con't)

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...And the truth cannot be hid; Somebody chose their pain, What needn't have happened did. —W. H. Auden Introduction to (and explan...
Monday, November 17, 2014

US History 1973 - 2014 Commonplace Book: Lecture 32, America in 2014: Inequality (Con't)

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Inequality kills. Between 1990 and 2008, life expectancy for White American men without a college degree fell by three years, and White low...
Sunday, November 16, 2014

US History 1973 - 2014 Commonplace Book: Lecture 32, America in 2014: Inequality (Con't)

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The inescapable reality is this: wealth is so concentrated that a large segment of society is virtually unaware of its existence, so that s...
Saturday, November 15, 2014

US History 1973 - 2014 Commonplace Book: Lecture 32, America in 2014: Inequality (Con't)

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But we know that people’s frustrations run deeper than these most recent political battles.... They experience in a very personal way the r...
Friday, November 14, 2014

US History 1973 - 2014 Commonplace Book: Lecture 32, America in 2014: Inequality (Con't)

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It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it. —George Carlin, Life is Worth Loosing (2005) Introduction...
Thursday, November 13, 2014

US History 1973 - 2014 Commonplace Book: Lecture 32, America in 2014: Inequality (Con't)

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We are the 99%. —Slogan of Occupy Wall Street Introduction to (and explanation of) this quote series can be found here .  Read this tag ...
Wednesday, November 12, 2014

US History 1973 - 2014 Commonplace Book: Lecture 32, America in 2014: Inequality

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Good historians, I suspect, whether they think about it or not, have the future in their bones. Besides the question: Why? the historian al...
Tuesday, November 11, 2014

US History 1973 - 2014 Commonplace Book: Lecture 31, Occupy Wall Street & Other Politics of the Obama Years (Con't)

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NYC authorities clearly feel #OWS eviction is just and reasonable. That's why they are doing it at 2am and barring all press. — George...
Monday, November 10, 2014

US History 1973 - 2014 Commonplace Book: Lecture 31, Occupy Wall Street & Other Politics of the Obama Years (Con't)

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To all those across the world currently occupying parks, squares and other spaces, your comrades in Cairo are watching you in solidarity... ...
Sunday, November 09, 2014

US History 1973 - 2014 Commonplace Book: Lecture 31, Occupy Wall Street & Other Politics of the Obama Years (Con't)

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Declaration of the Occupation of New York City This document was accepted by the NYC General Assembly on September 29, 2011 As we gath...
Saturday, November 08, 2014

US History 1973 - 2014 Commonplace Book: Lecture 31, Occupy Wall Street & Other Politics of the Obama Years (Con't)

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Who are the men who really run this land? And why do they run it with such a thoughtless hand? —David Crosby, "What Are Their Names...
Friday, November 07, 2014

US History 1973 - 2014 Commonplace Book: Lecture 31, Occupy Wall Street & Other Politics of the Obama Years (Con't)

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All of a sudden it was cool to be a lefty again. — Kalle Lasn Introduction to (and explanation of) this quote series can be found here . ...
Thursday, November 06, 2014

US History 1973 - 2014 Commonplace Book: Lecture 31, Occupy Wall Street & Other Politics of the Obama Years (Con't)

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Shit is fucked up and bullshit. —Protest sign at Occupy Wall Street (Zuccotti Park), Fall, 2011 (repeated since) Introduction to (and exp...
Wednesday, November 05, 2014

US History 1973 - 2014 Commonplace Book: Lecture 31, Occupy Wall Street & Other Politics of the Obama Years (Con't)

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A worldwide shift in revolutionary tactics is underway right now that bodes well for the future. The spirit of this fresh tactic, a fusion ...
Tuesday, November 04, 2014

US History 1973 - 2014 Commonplace Book: Lecture 31, Occupy Wall Street & Other Politics of the Obama Years (Con't)

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Republicans were threatening to cause the US government to default in order to force massive cuts in social services intended to head off a...