Thursday, April 2, 2009

RICHARD KAHLENBERG OF THE CENTURY FOUNDATION SAID A LOT OF THINGS

Last night, April 1, 2009 at the CCCAAC meeting in Southeast Raleigh.

One thing he did not say was the answer to Eric Blau's question.

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

WANT TO KNOW WHO PARTICIPATED IN HKONJ?

Here's Raleigh FIST's latest endeavor - an active participant in HKONJ. They describe themselves as a marxist youth organization:

Raleigh-Durham F.I.S.T. presents:
Fred Goldstein, author of "Low Wage Capitalism," and Monica Moorehead, the author of "Marxism, Reparations, and the Black Freedom Stuggle" will be in Chapel Hill on Saturday at Internationalist Books (405 W Franklin St) to discuss their works. This will be a great time for folks to get a better understanding of the current economic crisis and how it greatly affects oppressed peoples, workers, and students, as well as what type of fightback is necessary to demand our rights to a job, an education, and everything else that is threatened by crises of capitalism.Start: Apr 4 2009 - 12:30pmEnd: Apr 4 2009 - 2:00pmFred Goldstein, author of Low-Wage Capitalism, will talk about his groundbreaking new book "Low-Wage Capitalism," which presents a Marxist view of the capitalist economic crisis. Critically acclaimed by both Howard Zinn and Michael Parenti, "Low-Wage Capitalism" provides a sorely-needed and easy-to-read analysis of the roots of the current global economic crisis, its implications for workers and oppressed peoples, and the strategy needed for future struggle. Goldstein explains how the dramatic impact of new technology and the restructuring of global capitalism contains the seeds of its own destruction.He will be joined by Monica Moorehead, the editor of Marxism, Reparations and the Black Freedom Struggle, a rich collection of articles from the pages of Workers World newspaper featuring Black Resistance, Katrina, History of Struggle and Anthology. Both authors will sign books following the discussion.For more info check out:
http://www.lowwagecapitalism.com/http://leftbooks.com/store/product211.htmlhttp://internationalistbooks.org/?q=node/300(any more questions contact scott@fistyouth.org)Fight Imperialism- Stand Together (FIST) is a Marxist youth organization. http://raleighfist.wordpress.comhttp://fistyouth.org

IF YOU NEEDED ANOTHER REASON ABOUT HOW POOR THE N&O IS ....



You can find it in the Life, etc. section this month.

The News and Observer, in the spirit of March Madness decided to compose a "Music Madness" tournament. Simply put, they matched up 64 musical groups and indivduals over the course of pop music history and invited readers to participate in deciding who is the greatest pop music act in history.

So why bring this up today, April 1st?

Yes it's the birthday of arguably the greatest soul musician ever - Marvin Gaye.

And guess what? He's not on the list.

Nope, but somehow the O'Jays, Isley Brothers, and Sly and the Family Stone made the list? What braintrust over at the N&O put together the soul pairings for this? Were they even over 30 years old?

How in the world does this not make the list?

Weak. You can see the N&O list here.

WEDNESDAY'S JOURNAL - APRIL 1, 2009

Today's overview:

CAMPO AND TRIANGLE TRANSIT MEETING IN NORTHERN WAKE TO PUSH FOR MASSIVE TAX INCREASES FOR FLAWED TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM

DEL BURNS PLAYS MATH GAMES WITH SCHOOL BUDGET, CALLS MILLIONS BASED ON GHOST STUDENTS A CUT

BURNS GIVES UP RAISE, NOT MILLIONS SPENT ON FLAWED DIVERSITY BUSING PROGRAM

MILLBERG ON A ROLL - MORE FEIGNING CONCERN FOR WAKE PARENTS

ST. AUG'S TO HOST COMMUNITY DAY - GOOD LUCK GETTING MEEKER DOWN THERE

IT'S NOT JUST FOR RALEIGH ANYMORE - MEEKER & CO. ATTEMPT TO CONTROL GROWTH IN OTHER LOCAL TOWNS

YET ANOTHER CONVENTION EXPENSE - N&O REPORTER RIDES R-LINE .... ALONE

CARY'S LOUD FLUSHING SOUND (LITERALLY)

Not as senseless as Raleigh's garbage disposal ban but ranking right up there is Cary's toilet buyback progam.

Apparently not only are guns the only danger that municipalities must buy back.

Toilets .... the killer among us.

You can read David Bass' great article here.