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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

24. January 2012 by Paul M. Davis
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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.

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16. January 2012 by Paul M. Davis
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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

03. October 2011 by Paul M. Davis
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The Toll of the Texas Drought

At this point, the current drought is the third worst on record based on the Palmer Drought Index, behind the droughts of 1916-1918 and 1951-1957. The Texas drought map is a sea of red, with almost the entire state in … Continue reading

27. September 2011 by Paul M. Davis
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