Undernews: May 6, 2013
Since 1964, the news while there's still time to do something about it
THE PROGRESSIVE REVIEW
The end of the First American Republic
Harvard professor of the week:
Recovered history
Old news
In its total 34 year history the FISA court has rejected a grand total of 11 government applications, while approving
more than 20,000.
Reginald D. Hunter, American comedian now in Britain, explains the difference between race and class
The best line from Great Gatsby (book version)
They were careless people -- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated into their money or their vast
carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together. . . and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
Action notes
Following a five-day organizing training and strategy summit in Birmingham, members of the labor group OUR Walmart plan to send civil rights
movement style caravans of workers from around country to converge at the retail giant's June 7 annual shareholder
meeting.
Pocket paradigm
Fortunately, economists discovered money as an organizing principle rather than, say, defecation. Otherwise we would have a really
gross national product. - Sam Smith
Quotes
Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right...an indisputable,
unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean of the characters and
conduct of their rulers. -- John Adams
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