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Albert: POLAND NO JOKE (Final excerpt, draft, from chap 11)
Blog Post, August, 26 2005
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
The end of chapter 11. POLAND NO JOKE You really haven't been a virgin for so long.| It's ludicrous to keep up the pretext... You've slept with all the big powers In military uniforms, And you've taken the sweet life Of all the little brown fe...
Albert: EMPHASIZE THIS? (5th excerpt, draft, from chapter 11)
Blog Post, August, 26 2005
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
A few more pages... EMPHASIZE THIS? With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men, I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost. - William Lloyd Garrison During the anti Vie...
Albert: MAYDAY (4th excerpt, draft, from chap 11)
Blog Post, August, 26 2005
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Antoher few pages of draft from chapter 11... MAYDAY Tell no lies, claim no easy victories - Amilcar Cabral Getting back to the Sixties, looking at all the Washington gatherings and events from on high there was a clear trajectory. At first o...
Albert: PETERS CIA (3rd excerpt, draft, from chap 11)
Blog Post, August, 26 2005
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Another few pages... PETERS CIA In a building of gold, with riches untold, lived the families on which the country was founded. And the merchants of style, with their red velvet smiles, were there, for they also were hounded. And the soft middle...
Albert: PENTAGON DEMO (second excerpt - draft - from chapter 11, Remembering Tomorrow)
Blog Post, August, 26 2005
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Another excerpt, following Hard Rain... PENTAGON DEMO Time has come today Young hearts can go their way Can't put it off another day I don't care what others say They say we don't listen anyway Time has come today - Lester Chambers The 196...
Albert: HARD RAIN (draft from chapter 11, Remembering Tomorrow)
Blog Post, August, 26 2005
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
I am working on a book called Remembering Tomorrow - a memoir type work that uses experiences to try to convey history, lessons, etc. It is in process, long, still being edited. I thought I would put some excerpts here, to get reactions that might...
Albert: There Is An Alternative
Blog Post, July, 23 2005
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
I was recently asked for a 1,000 word piece on parecon for a major German newspaper. I was reminded of an old joke. "would you like me to explain the meaning of life," says the jokester. While the audience ponders the offer a second, the jokester ...
Albert: Reply to Review of Thought Dreams
Blog Post, July, 13 2005
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
I was asked in the forums my reactions to a review, and thought I would include the content here... About the review by Sebastian Lamb in the New Socialist that you asked me to comment on...I honestly think the debates that appear on ZNet about P...
Albert: Reply to Reis
Blog Post, May, 18 2005
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
I was glad to hear about a review appearing in Italy, by Erich Reis, addressing issues having to do with the economic model Participatory Economics, and the book Parecon. I received a translation of it, and had some comments. Differences aside, t...
Albert: Class or Multitude
Blog Post, April, 14 2005
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
I am going to be in New York City this coming weekend for the Left Forum. One of the two panels I am on is about class or multitude. While I will tailor my words for the setting, once I get there, these are the thoughts I had on the topic by way o...
Albert: First Draft Introduction to possible new book - Remembering Tomorrow (memoirs)
Blog Post, March, 10 2005
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
At the suggestion of a number of folks I am trying to write about the past few decades actions, reactions, ideas, and notions as I have experienced them, using stories, anecdotes, etc. People call this sort of thing a memoir...but what I am doing ...
Spannos: Redeye: Radical Radio & Current Affairs
Blog Post, January, 20 2005
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
In addition to volunteering for ZNet, I also produce radio with Redeye, a weekly radical current affairs program heard on Vancouver Cooperative Radio. Redeye is a collectively produced show which covers politics, arts, culture and ideas. The show ...
Spannos: Vancouver Protests New Israeli Ambassador to Canada
Blog Post, January, 13 2005
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
Last night, a cold, dark icy night, at the Jewish Community Centre in Vancouver, 25-30 activists joined together to peacefully protest the new Israeli Ambassador to Canada, Alan Baker and Israeli war crimes. Mr. Baker's position against the Na...
Spannos: Aid Through the Eyes of Empire
Blog Post, January, 03 2005
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
In an earlier posting I suggested that western governments could do more to help those effected by the tsunami disaster. Specifically, through a massive increase in aid, opening our borders to refugees, simultaneous debt cancellation and a restruc...
Spannos: Western Governments can do more to help tsunami victims
Blog Post, December, 30 2004
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
Like many others I have been shocked and horrified by the current tragedy that has struck hundreds of thousands throughout Asia. I have a hard time comprehending the scale of the disaster, and indeed it grows day by day. I have to say that I could...
Albert: A Sporting Revolution: The Parecon Hockey League
Blog Post, December, 20 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
I reeived this in Email. It is a short essay by Kim Peterson. Relevant here, more so than on the main site, I think. Up to now, there is no National Hockey League (NHL) fare for ice hockey aficionados. The public NHL players and behind-the-scenes...
Spannos: Looking Backward, Looking Forward: One Year of Parecon Organizing
Blog Post, November, 17 2004
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
By the Vancouver Parecon Collective: Jamie Campbell, Dave Collins, Bryan Berndt, Matt Grinder, Daniel Palmer, Chris Spannos, David Pehota It's been just over one year since the Vancouver Parecon Collective came into existence. It was sometime in...
Albert: Engaging the State – Today and Tomorrow
Blog Post, November, 11 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
I was recently asked to do a short essay on "Engaging the State" for the innovative new Left Turn Magazine. My submission appears below... Engaging the State – Today and Tomorrow By Michael Albert To engage the state one must answer two key q...
Albert: Pareconish Intellectual Agendas
Blog Post, November, 11 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
In another DRAFT chapter in a book I am working on, some of which I have entered here in DRAFT form, I have tried to briefly suggest a range of intellectual concerns and explorations that advocacy of parecon implies. The material follows below, i...
Spannos: Anatomy of a Canadian Behemoth: pt. 2 (Raising the Social Cost)
Blog Post, October, 31 2004
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
On September 8th I published a piece titled “Canadian Bullets, Dead Iraqis”. The peice outlined SNC TEC's (a subsidiary of SNC-Lavalin) involvement in General Dynamics multinational consortium to produce bullets used by US occupation forces in Ir...
