anarchism | anarchism
Nov.27.2011
I forget which streaming video service I was on, but I got recommended the movie "If a Tree Falls: A story of the Earth Liberation Front," I guess based on the other documentaries I watch. Recommender systems are interesting because I don't actually watch many political documentaries. As...
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Jun.19.2011
I was thrilled to see a new film on one of my heroes (and I am a woman of few heroes, it must be admitted), the great writer and thinker Paul Goodman, who died in 1972. Watching Jonathan Lee's Paul Goodman Changed My Life was like spending an hour and half in the company of an open flame, radiating...
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Sep.17.2008
Because I write a lot about my son, I thought that I would ask him if he'd be willing to speak in his own voice, about his own ideas. He recently returned from the protests in St. Paul, MN, and I sent him some questions to answer. They aren't very original, and mostly, I want to ask him more...
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Sep.13.2008
On a drive up the coast of California, my destination Crescent City and a local writer’s conference there, I found that I was passing by a stream of hitchhikers. For a few miles, there had been signs warning motorists to be alert for cross traffic and pedestrians. When I approached the site...
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Jul.02.2008
Our spot on the Russian River just above Cloverdale was quiet and the sky strange. The water was muckier than usual. Still, we'd driven an hour and a half for this nature. So we swam, we played cards, we laughed, we tossed sticks for the dogs, we fought with the dogs over who got to sit on the...
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