Polar Bears not drowning, nuclear bombs not existing, DICK Cheney in prison, telivisions vanishing and "The Left" actually existing!
I'd like to meet:
Arundhati Roy
Music:
Money Paper Hearts, Anti-Flag, Modest Mouse, The Clash, Operation Ivy, Dead Prez, Bob Marley, System of a Down, Strike Anywhere, Pavement, Michael Franti, Leonard Cohen, Interpol, Fugazi, Flaming Lips, Avail, Wilco, Dead Kennedys...Guilty Pleasures: Third Eye Blind, Nelly Furtado, the "Hair" soundtrack and 70's power ballads.
Movies:
Fight Club, Fight Club, and oh yeah, Fight Club, The Matrix, Office Space, Old School, Syriana, And, surprise, everything Adam Sandler.
Television:
Free Speech TV, Link TV, Indymedia and Democracy NOW. There is nothing else worth watching...OK, I'm not that cool. The Office, Six Feet Under and The Colbert Report.
Books:
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, Deer Hunting With Jesus by Joe Bageant, Manufactoring Consent by Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman, Endgame by Derrick Jensen, Subterranean Fire by Sharon Smith, The Medium is the Massage by Marshall McLuhan.
Heroes:
Joe Bageant, Amy Goodman, Arundati Roy, Dead Prez, Fred Hampton, Fred Hampton Jr., lots of Cockburns, Jeffrey St.clair, Robert Fisk, Fugazi, Dissident Voice, ZNet, Michael Albert, that guy at Tiananmen square, Stan Goff, Mickey Z, Cindy Sheehan, Situationists, Pre-bombing era Weatherman, Zapatistas, Aaron Russo, Noam Chomsky, that little guy during Katrina that stole a bus and went to save lives unlike our ethnic cleansing, land grabbing government, Howard Zinn, people who only ride bikes, my grandmother, Phil Rockstroh, Derrick Jensen, Robert Jensen, Free Speech TV, free speech lawyers, civil rights lawyers, environmental lawyers, radical environmentalist, people who chain their human bodies to things worth saving, people who fight to stop the torture of humans and non-humans, liberation theologists, people who are ready to fight back, people who love their children through action, not symbols, soldiers that lay down their weapons in a time illegal, imperialist wars, circus animals who rebel, battered women who rebel, people that know what a monkey-wrench was made for, people who understand what soil is, people who know what toil is, people that understand that this system is not just un-sustainable, but it isn't worth being sustained. People who know what love is. People who have had enough.
