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David

Back On The Train !

About Me



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My Interests

History, Organized Labor, Current Events, Reading , Writing, Carpentry, Hating Wal-Mart and the Nation it represents. The eternal search for truth and beauty. The search for G-d ( who I am still convinced lives in a warehouse in the west end of London) And yeah ........ like that

I'd like to meet:

“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.” - Howard Zinn

Music:


Movies:

Indie and documentary freak in general. Control Room ( about Al-Jazeera during the war in Iraq is a must see for all!) Harlan County USA ( You think being a union member is easy? Watch this, It may seem old, but it is still a daily struggle) Grey Gardens ( This is a classic! Gave birth to the modern archetype of old ladies in large houses who eat cat food, and of course have a million cats.) Chickenhawk (a very creepy doc about pedophiles and the founders of NAMBLA, you know that guy who you think might be a child molester? Well if he looks and acts like these guys, chances are he is!) Brothers Keeper ( What can you say about a man found murdered in the bed he shares with his brother and evidence of a sex crime is found?)Pi, Requiem for a Dream,Donnie Darko, Fight club,Dark City, The Tesseract,Apolcalypse Now, The Secretary .. This list is endless

Television:

the drug of a nation ....Not surprisingly I guess, The History Channel ( though I mostly just end up barking things at it). I am a fan of MythBusters though ....

Books:

not enough time in life for this list .... Yukio Mishima Gabriel Garcia Marquez Yasunari Kawabata Franz Kafka and more Bios than I you can shake a nightlight at Special Mention for Christopher Moore, it may not be literature, but anything that can make me laugh out loud is pretty damned good. I also enjoy a lot of crap,but The Da Vinci Code was,is, and will always be crap, its badly written and mostly stolen and that it is a non-stop best seller makes me weep for Amerika .....

Heroes:

Connolly, James, 1870–1916, Irish nationalist and socialist. An advocate of revolutionary syndicalism, he went (1903) to the United States, where he helped to organize the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Returning to Ireland, he became an organizer of the Belfast dock workers. He helped James Larkin to organize the Irish Transport and General Workers Union and, during the great lockout of the Dublin transport workers in 1913, organized a citizen army. Convinced that the triumph of Irish nationalism was a prerequisite for the success of Irish socialism, he joined the Easter Rebellion of 1916. He was wounded, court-martialed, and executed.

My Blog

Remarks of Senator Barack Obama: United Auto Workers Conference

  Dubuque, IA | November 13, 2007 We meet at a difficult time for organized labor. A while back, I went to a Maytag plant in Galesburg, Illinois that was moving to Mexico. And I met workers who w...
Posted by David on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:14:00 PST

1968 Olympics Black Power salute

1968 Olympics Black Power salute   Tommie Smith (center) and John Carlos (right) showing the Black Power salute in the 1968 Summer Olympics while Silver medalist Peter Norman (left) wears an...
Posted by David on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 05:27:00 PST

Howard Zinn

Howard Zinn (born August 24, 1922) is an American historian, political scientist, social critic, activist and playwright, best known as author of the bestseller[5] , A People's History of the United S...
Posted by David on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 04:31:00 PST

RALPH BUNCHE

  Dr. Ralph Johnson Bunche (August 7, 1903  December 9, 1971) was an American political scientist, diplomat who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s mediation in Palestine. He...
Posted by David on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 08:58:00 PST

Gareth Peirce

Gareth Peirce (born c. 1940) is a British solicitor. She discarded her birth name of "Jean" when she was quite young, taking "Gareth" as her legal name. She is noted for taking on controversial cases,...
Posted by David on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:01:00 PST

The Real Che Guevara - Look Beyond the T-Shirt

The Cult of Che Don't applaud The Motorcycle Diaries. By Paul Berman (from Slate) The cult of Ernesto Che Guevara is an episode in the moral callousness of our time. Che was a totalitarian. He achieve...
Posted by David on Sat, 24 Nov 2007 06:43:00 PST

If only the Union Had Been There

Oh yeah! We COULD have been .... ..> Yalie, 26, dies in freak accident By Jim Shelton NEW HAVEN  A Yale University graduate student was struck in the head and died Sunday morning while unload...
Posted by David on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 01:02:00 PST

Irish Genocide

http://www.aepizeta.org/~codine/famine/index.html
Posted by David on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 08:31:00 PST

Emiliano Zapata

Emiliano Zapata Salazar (August 8, 1879April 10, 1919) was a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution, which broke out in 1910, and which was initially directed against the president Porfirio Díaz. H...
Posted by David on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:55:00 PST

Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869  May 14, 1940) known as 'Red Emma', was a Lithuanian-born anarchist known for her writings and speeches. She was lionized as an iconic "rebel woman" feminist by admirers, ...
Posted by David on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 06:15:00 PST