Whether in Europe or the U.S., the wolf debate is kind of the ultimate in the urban-rural environmentalism divide. I have to admit that while I sympathize with the French shepherds, I mostly side with the city dwellers because the wolf is a natural part...
Author: Erik Loomis
Lovely.
Today is the first day of class at URI. I need some motivation to get me pumped for teaching. These 1920s workplace motivational posters should do the trick. I thought.
Just in case anyone wasn't aware that Teach for America is a tool of the capitalists, the organization has teamed up with Goldman Sachs to funnel TFA members into a career with a corporation that only played a major role in the crisis that helped...
Glad to see the Mexican immigrants killed in a 1948 plane crash near Fresno on an federal plane deporting them back to Mexico finally remembered with a proper gravestone. Woody.
In a story almost too good to be true, Jeremy Fugleberg of the Casper Star-Tribune chronicles a meeting between a local NAACP member and the regional leader of the Ku.
Of course "Hurt" is a Johnny Cash song. In the public mind, any song sung by Johnny Cash is automatically a Johnny Cash song, be it "Cocaine Blues" or "Bird on a Wire" or "Sunday Morning Coming Down." Why even research such an obvious fact?...
Martin Scorsese gave a great talk for the 2013 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities. It's reprinted in the New York Review of Books and is on the importance of preserving.
An appropriate song to end this exploration of labor and song is this piece on deindustrialization, Tom Russell's "U.S. Steel." I hope you enjoyed this set of labor music.
Sure it might be a cliche, but Charlie Haden at least believes that the people united will never be defeated. Besides, we need more leftist jazz.
Talib Kweli on what working people have to do to get by.
Richard Thompson on love and strikes.