An Oakland General Strike Roundup
So, here’s something amazing. Tomorrow, November 2nd, Occupy Oakland is organizing the first general strike in America since 1946. Can we just stop and sit with that for a moment?
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November 2011
306 posts
“What drew the Royalist anti-Semite to the Jewess in funny clothes?”
“Now a pair of books—Barbara Will’s Unlikely Collaboration: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, and the Vichy Dilemma (Columbia University Press, 2011) and Antoine Compagnon’s Le Cas Bernard Faÿ: Du Collège de…
The Middle
In Dagoberto Gilb’s new collection of short stories, Before the End, After the Beginning, we see people in transitional phases―neither flying nor drowing, but floating.
Feminist Blogging
“Back in the seventies, feminists touted the slogan ‘the personal is political,’ arguing that women had been trained to dismiss their own struggles as personal matters with no greater meaning.…
THE LONELY VOICE #13: Walser on Mission Street
I confess I like reading stories about people who are more depressed than I am. Other people’s misery has a way of lifting the soul a little. Happy stories? They’re…