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Van Jones' Exit from Eden

Submitted by Maeve66 on September 7, 2009 - 11:16am

This morning, I woke up to several friends’ Facebook statuses or posted links telling me that Van Jones, Obama’s Green Jobs “czar” (I need to make an aside here, to say how thoroughly I det

"Skinny" or "Rockin' the Beer Gut"

Submitted by Maeve66 on July 13, 2009 - 3:55pm

In these days of incessant scare mongering around 'the obesity epidemic', I have been wanting to write about how I experience fat activism.

Socialist Futurism: Sci-Fi for Reds and Greens

Submitted by Maeve66 on April 15, 2009 - 5:55pm

A lot of socialists have a yen for science fiction. I mean, apart from the fact that we are often geeks anyway, science fiction almost always tries to imagine an alternate future.

YouTube: Race, Gender, and Imperialism in Iraq

Submitted by Maeve66 on March 1, 2009 - 8:09pm

Check out this YouTube click of an American army officer [transcribed below] as he harangues an Iraqi police patrol, telling them they're "acting like a bunch of fucking women".

The War(s) at Home: the Iraq War in movies

Submitted by Maeve66 on November 3, 2008 - 6:38pm

I teach in a working class suburb, not too far from Oakland, whose political character is very, very different from that in the city itself.

Bollywood: Song, Dance, and Worker Insurgency

Submitted by Maeve66 on May 2, 2008 - 12:52am

Almost two years ago, I met somebody at a club, and when he told me what he did for a living, I nearly dropped my frou-frou drink. I think it was a tequila sunrise. That or a margarita. Something brightly colored and with a lot of sugar.

Revolution, love, and nonmonogamy

Submitted by Maeve66 on February 4, 2008 - 5:43pm

Looking backward: The following piece is from almost five years ago, and my own views continue to evolve. Sometimes I feel like they devolve. However, I think that the subject is worth Left discussion and commentary, because, as my friend A. says, why don't lefties fucking GET personal politics? We can rag on "social conservatives", but often our own views come off as some kind of queasily tolerant personal-as-political Not In My Back Yard. So I am posting this, and will rebut it in the comments, and hope other people will chime in, too.

Michael Albert's Parecon

Submitted by Maeve66 on December 13, 2007 - 12:17pm

So... I’ve been mulling over my reaction to this book by Michael Albert, Parecon. Friends on a blogging engine, LiveJournal, directed my attention toward it. I read it with very close attention. Herewith is my response, finally.