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Sung a Lot of Songs
http://darwinbondgraham.blogspot.com
I'm a writer, historian, and ethnographer. I live and work variously in California, New Orleans, and New Mexico. My research engages histories of what Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. called the big three, poverty, racism, and militarism.
Recent Posts
The Copenhagen Accord: Suicide Pact?
The COP15 talks in Denmark are over now. The "accord" reached is nonbinding, asking states only to "take note" of its objectives.What are its objectives? Drafted by the USA with input from major industrializing states whose CO2 emissions are rising...
Copenhagen as Farce
A Short Theatrical PerformanceScene: The State of DenmarkBelgian negotiator - "The planet is imperiled."French negotiator - "Deserts of forests!"Brazilian negotiator - "Bile of oceans!"Al Gore - "Everyone look at this graph!"German negotiator - "We m...
Steven Seagal, Lawman, PR Flak for Racist Police Force
Steven Seagal has been a deputy with the Jefferson Parish Sheriffs Office for two decades. Now he's filming a reality show with A&E to put a spotlight on law enforcement in southern Louisiana. News outlets across the country have been reporting...
California is a "Developing" Economy, and Guess Who\'s Developing It?, or Blum\'s Business with the Bechtels.
Past chair of the UC board of Regents, Richard Blum, has been an ongoing target of student and worker protests, and for good reason. Although he created a center at UC Berkeley for the study of global poverty, his policies as a UC Regent have been c...
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Today on Demcracy Now! Naomi Klein stated that although Copenhagen's climate talks are occurring 10 years after Seattle's trade talks, the point of the upcoming street protests is not to disrupt the delegates, as was achieved with the WTO ministerial...
More on anti-nuclear imperialism: California\'s nuclear nexus
In the coming December issue of Z Magazine Will Parrish, Nick Robinson and I are publishing an in-depth article detailing the historic origins of anti-nuclear imperialism.We locate this strategy's intellectual and political base within several Califo...

