THE VELVEETA REVOLUTION

Wisconsin governor Scott Walker, another Republican politician joining in the current Class War Festival is finding out what happens when people wake up. His proposal to end collective bargaining rights for public unions in his state and in the process continue the program of eviscerating unions in the US, was strikingly reacted to by unions … Read more

FRANCES FOX PIVEN STRIKES BACK

Frances Fox Piven, author and scholar, is a recent victim of a new Glenn Beck paranoid fantasy, stating that she is the leader of a planned progressive takeover. The laughable clownish TV twit is not so funny; like other funny little men, he can marshal an army of other funny little men, who, together, can do very unfunny things.  Silence is their greatest ally.  The entire piece can be read at The Chronicle of Higher Education  LINKED HERE. Ms. Piven clarifies what she has said in a Nation piece written in the ’60’s and how that was distorted by Beck.   It is excerpted below.

Crazy Talk and American Politics: or, My Glenn Beck Story
By Frances Fox Piven

. . .  According to Beck, I, together with my husband, Richard Cloward, with whom I
frequently collaborated before his death, am the proponent of a theory of
“orchestrated crisis” that lies behind an array of threats to American
society, including the emergence of Students for a Democratic Society,
Acorn, George Soros and the Open Society Institute, the New York City fiscal
crisis, the election of Barack Obama, and the recent financial meltdown.

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Artists Against the War Clustersigning!

This Thursday evening  the Society of Illustrators will sponsor a lecture inspired by the new book Artists Against the War, just published by Underwood Books. The show, which opened at the Society in 2008, featured the work of over 60 dedicated artists, generously devoting their time and talent for something they cared deeply about: the tragically misguided US involvement in Iraq. The talk will center on the role of artists in addressing this and related issues, work done at that time and since. The artists on the panel: Frances Jetter, Peter Kuper, Wendy Popp and Victor Juhasz will be on hand to clustersign copies of the book following the talk. Other artists in the show will be on hand to contribute as well.

Thursday Feb. 10,

The Society of Illustrators

128 E.63 St. NYC

$15 non-members, $10 members, $7 students (free to all artists in the show and book natch)

rsvp@societyillustrators.org

Tomer Hanuka

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COLDCAST

So here’s the cartoon that is scheduled to appear in tomorrow’s Washington Post Outlook section, p1.  Funny, perhaps.  But unaware of the firing of Keith Olbermann by Comcast last night. Different drugs, I think are called for.  Ones that will help him and us through Palinism and the huge Far Right Wing moves now being … Read more