Category Archives: revolution

Mark Frechette ZABRISKI POINT

May 21, 2012 – 6:13 pm

“As you get old, you forget. As you get older you are forgotten.” James Steele Some of us never get to be old or even older, especially those doomed by the James Dean’s curse ‘live fast, die, and leave a good-looking corpse’. Few men of the counter culture were as good-looking as Mark Frechette. In [...]

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CLOCKWORK ORANGE 50

May 15, 2012 – 5:33 pm

CLOCKWORK ORANGE turns 50 today. Anthony Burgess had written the book fast. He thought that he was going to die from a brain tumor. The author later described the novel thusly; “a jeu d’esprit knocked off for money in three weeks, it became known as the raw material for a film which seemed to glorify [...]

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A Letter from Huey Newton

May 14, 2012 – 6:48 pm

A Letter from Huey Newton to the Revolutionary Brothers and Sisters about the Women’s Liberation and Gay Liberation Movements” is considered the first pro-gay, pro-woman proclamation to come out of the black civil rights movement. During the past few years strong movements have developed among women and among homosexuals seeking their liberation. There has been [...]

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Enough Is Enough

May 8, 2012 – 1:11 pm

After a series of election Leftist parties of France, Greece, and Italy have swept austerity junkies from office. Pro-growth promises trumped hardline economics threatening the German government’s demands for budget cuts in order to repay bank loans from before the crisis. PM Merkel has called a continuation of cost-cutting, while the newly elected leader of [...]

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HOLIDAY IN CAMBODIA – Dead Kennedys

May 4, 2012 – 6:59 pm

April 17, 1975 I was teaching at South Boston High School. Poor black students were bussed to the worst white school in the city. A federal judge from the suburbs mandated the order to desegregate the school system. His children attended private schools. Riots were a regular occurrence. The most violent outburst were reserved for [...]

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