Category Archives for democracy
Radio Free Ruin #2 with Anne Elizabeth Moore is live! (At a different website)
Radio Free Ruin #2: Garments, Gadgets, and Third World Labor with Anne Elizabeth Moore is live! I speak with author/Truthout columnist/activist/former Punk Planet editor Anne Elizabeth Moore about garment work and third world labor, women in comics, cats, and much … Continue reading
Radio Free Ruin #1: We’re an American Band (2012) with Cooper McBean
Cooper McBean of the Devil Makes Three joins us to talk about tech and the Internet have transformed the life of an independent professional musician.
Continue readingApple’s Devices Are Made of Blood and Misery. As Are All The Rest. So Do Something About It.
I’ve been following Mike Daisey’s work for quite some time, and was bummed that I missed his one-man show, The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, when I visited New York this past November. Despite my weariness with This American Life, … Continue reading
Life in the Salton Sea, A Uniquely Southern California Wasteland
Bombay Beach // Trailer (by Alma Har’el) I’m watching Bombay Beach, an experimental doc by Alma Har’el about the denizens of Bombay Beach, near the Salton Sea, the epically-failed attempt from the ’20s through the ’50s to establish a resort … Continue reading
A Voice For The Rest of Us: Why Occupy Wall Street Matters
There are a number of good critiques of the establishment left’s responses to Occupy Wall Street, most pointedly and effectively being this one from Glenn Greenwald, but I’ve been surprised to note that some of the activists in my timelines … Continue reading



