Why I wasn’t there
I missed the OKC event marking the anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington. I couldn’t bring myself to risk witnessing more pro-war propaganda associated with MLK.
April 4
An email from my friend Batch, director of the Oklahoma City Peace House: To commemorate this April 4th memorial of Martin Luther King’s assassination, a friend sent me this 9-minute …
1967
Hang On, Sloopy was a hit when I was in 7th grade. I was just becoming aware of the Vietnam War, but it wasn’t much on my mind; I had …
Just wondering
Consider how our federal legislators voted on starting and sustaining our wars, how they voted for Bush’s tax cuts, and how they voted on recovery measures, then tell me, which …
Everybody knows
We’ve been had.
Arlo's Thanksgiving classic, with illustrations by Andrew Colunga
This is a fun addition to the annual ritual of listening to Alice’s Restaurant on Thanksgiving Day — illustrations of the story. Now you can watch the story (as you …
I solved the deficit!
and I didn’t touch Social Security or Medicare. I did touch the Pentagon pretty aggressively, in fact, I went the full Monty (at least as far as the NY Times …
Indocrinate them early that war is fun
… then it’s much easier to manipulate them later. When the antics are a little more serious.
Palestinian Human Rights talk by co-founder of ISM
Just got back from an AMAZING talk by Huwaida Arraf, co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement. She spoke for two hours about her own experience as a Palestinian-American who went …