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Szczepanczyk: My Resoc Interview
Blog Post, November, 18 2009
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Mitchell Szczepanczyk's Resoc Interview
Szczepanczyk: From the better-late-than-never department: CAPES and APPS meetup in Austin
Blog Post, December, 30 2008
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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A report back of an October 2008 face-to-face meeting between members of CAPES (the Chicago Area Participatory Economics Society) and APPS (the Austin Project for a Participatory Society).
Szczepanczyk: Celebrate "Real Utopia" at Chicago's Book Cellar: September 1, 2pm
Blog Post, August, 29 2008
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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What: A celebration of the publication of "Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century" When: Monday, September 1st, starting at 2pm. Where: The Book Cellar, 4736 N. Lincoln Avenue, Chicago (about a block from the Western stati...
Szczepanczyk: Peace Activists Stage Dramatic Easter 'Die-In’ at Chicago's Holy Name Cathedral to Protest Anniversary of Iraq War
Blog Post, March, 24 2008
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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March 23 – Six members of the anti-war group “Catholic Schoolgirls Against The War” staged a dramatic die-in during the 11AM Easter mass at Holy Name Cathedral, Chicago’s most prominent Catholic parish – and the home of one of the nation’s most co...
Szczepanczyk: TV online appearance and TV broadcast appearance
Blog Post, September, 12 2007
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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A heads-up for a couple of things: (1) There's an FCC hearing in Chicago scheduled for next Thursday, September 20. Chicagoans and folks in the midwest U.S. are encouraged to attend. More details are here and here. In anticipation of the hea...
Szczepanczyk: Osama bin Laden is evidently reading the Z blog...
Blog Post, September, 11 2007
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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Obviously. Because scintillating commentator and analyst David Brooks said so. On the PBS Newshour (well, it IS an hour long, but is it news?), Brooks was talking about the latest videotape by Osama bin Laden, and Brooks said: ...I mean, on...
Szczepanczyk: Today's Satire: Spider Pig Buys Out Wall Street Journal
Blog Post, August, 21 2007
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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Well, this IS new content, and an idea I've been throwing around for a while. And hey, Z does satire every month! Spider Pig Buys Out Wall Street Journal Spider Pig, who does whatever a Spider Pig does, stunned the business world Monday b...
Szczepanczyk: Vote for Chicago's "This Is Hell" at Public Radio Quest
Blog Post, August, 16 2007
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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Lately, it seems like I've been using this blog to promote one or another thing, rather than deliver some semblance of original content. Right you are -- though that might change soon and I might get back to posting up original content. Anyway, ...
Szczepanczyk: Radio interview with Michael Albert
Blog Post, July, 04 2007
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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Just a quick blog post announcement which would interest ZNet readers. Last month, I interviewed Michael Albert on my weekly radio show in Chicago. We discussed a number of topics raised in his recent book "Remembering Tomorrow". The full a...
Szczepanczyk: An audacious proposal to advance a participatory economy: Start one
Blog Post, June, 23 2007
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I had an idea for a tactic to proceed our economy. Why not just go ahead and start a participatory economy? Some might react by saying "We already have projects like Z Magazine and South End Press which already are starting". I know that, but...
Szczepanczyk: This is what international protest looks like
Blog Post, May, 24 2007
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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From the Department of Neato: This map shows the distribution of the 15.9 million people worldwide who protested against the invasion of Iraq in 2003 by troops from over 25 other territories, including from the United States, the Unit...
Szczepanczyk: Ruling Expected in Chicago Activist's Freedom of Speech Appeal
Blog Post, April, 14 2007
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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From an article I posted on Chicago Indymedia: Freedom-of-speech advocates and political activists are expecting a verdict this week in the case of a Chicago political activist who was arrested at a political rally for openly questioning poli...
Szczepanczyk: The Chicago Parecon Debate of February 10, 2007 is now online
Blog Post, February, 26 2007
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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This is just a quick announcement. The complete audio of the Feb. 10 Chicago Parecon debate at the offices of In These Times, and hosted by the Open University of the Left, is now online. The audio has been divided into six MP3 files, each...
Szczepanczyk: The Chicago Parecon Debate of February 10, 2007: My thoughts
Blog Post, February, 18 2007
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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(Note: The opinions expressed in what's to follow are solely those of its author, Mitchell Szczepanczyk, and do not necessarily reflect those of members of CAPES -- the Chicago Area Participatory Economics Society -- nor of the organization as a w...
Szczepanczyk: An event with (against?) Schweickart this weekend...
Blog Post, February, 07 2007
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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A heads-up for ZNet readers: I'm going to be participating in an event in Chicago this Saturday with David Schweickart. Yes, that David Schweickart. Details are below. We hope to have the audio (and video?) posted and available sometime after...
Szczepanczyk: Touched down in the land of the delta blues: My take on the National Conferenece for Media Reform in Memphis
Blog Post, January, 22 2007
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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Until last weekend. Memphis had been the city I most wanted to visit but hadn't yet visited. (I personally credit Marc Cohn.) So, when the 2007 National Conference for Media Reform took place at the Cook Convention Center in Memphis, hot damn!...
Szczepanczyk: On the death of Gerald R. Ford
Blog Post, December, 27 2006
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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The story is breaking with the announcement swallowing U.S. cable television as I type these words: Gerald R. Ford, former U.S. president, has died at the age of 93. Ford will be buried in a locale about 12 city blocks away from where I type th...
Szczepanczyk: Review of the book "The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power" by Joel Bakan
Blog Post, December, 18 2006
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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(Please note that this review is about the book The Corporation, the companion to the film of the same name, and not the fiim itself.) I find myself with mixed feelings about The Corporation: the book by Joel Bakan. On the one hand, I rank the...
Szczepanczyk: Good news and bad news in the U.S. media policy struggles
Blog Post, December, 11 2006
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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The good news, as the Save The Internet coalition reports: The gavel has fallen on the 109th Congress marking the demise of entrenched corporate efforts to legislate away our Internet freedoms — and a stunning victory for real people who want...
Szczepanczyk: On the death of Milton Friedman
Blog Post, November, 16 2006
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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I was broadcasting my radio show in Chicago this afternoon when I heard that neoliberal economist Milton Friedman died this afternoon at age 94. Indeed, my show airs on the University of Chicago's own radio station, on the very campus where Fried...
Szczepanczyk: I made calls for Moveon.org...
Blog Post, November, 01 2006
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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Okay, I feel a little dirty (being an anti-war Chomsky reading parecon supporter and all that) but today I joined Moveon.org's big calling machine and called about twelve numbers, reading a script in support of a democratic candidate I know nothin...
Szczepanczyk: New York Indymedia videographer slain in Mexico
Blog Post, October, 28 2006
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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I thought I was going to blog about Death of a President, a faux documentary about the assassination of George W. Bush -- which I saw tonight, which is set in Chicago, which boasts video footage of protesters I know personally, and with footage r...
Szczepanczyk: Victory: An update of media and internet activism in the U.S.
Blog Post, October, 27 2006
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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Earlier in 2006, I blogged about the efforts to stop the wretched rewrite of the Telecommunications Act, the main law in America involving the media and the internet, and its likely negative ramifications as to the future of the internet and curre...
Szczepanczyk: A brief word about the Mark Foley matter
Blog Post, October, 15 2006
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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I don't want to spend too much time about the Mark Foley scandal in the United States House of Representatives, involving a resigned representative and his electronic communications of an explicit sexual nature with Congressional male pages. The...
Szczepanczyk: Help The NewStandard in its emergency fundraising campaign
Blog Post, September, 16 2006
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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Many ZNet and Z Magazine readers are familiar with The NewStandard, the excellent progressive-minded online journalism website, built on the model of participatory economics, funded without advertising or nonprofit grants, operating on a very frug...
Szczepanczyk: Katrina, Chernobyl, and the Yes Men
Blog Post, August, 29 2006
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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One year has passed since Hurricane Katrina and a staggering level of follow-up ineptitude rendered the effective destruction of New Orleans. I can't help but think that the effect of that hurricane and what followed may ultimately be to Amer...
Szczepanczyk: Casinos in Spirit: The World Trade Organization and The World Series of Poker
Blog Post, July, 30 2006
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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In this post, I'd like to draw some comparisons between contemporary political economy and competitive poker. I think it's useful to see political economy through the lens of poker, since (as I'll explain further) I think there's an extraordinary...
Szczepanczyk: Why is there a ZNet blog post about twenty-year-old comic books?
Blog Post, July, 22 2006
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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When I was growing up, I was interested in comic books. One series of comics which I read was the New Universe, a line of comic books produced by Marvel Comics to commemorate Marvel's 25th anniversary -- in 1986. I read and owned all the books...
Szczepanczyk: Zidane's Cheap Shot Heard 'Round the World?
Blog Post, July, 11 2006
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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French soccer superstar Zinedine Zidane gave an amazing performance in the 1998 FIFA Men's World Cup championship game to win France's first ever FIFA Men's World Cup. It even inspired the Chicago Tribune to call him "the best thing to happen to ...
Szczepanczyk: Fiction and making activist vision tangible
Blog Post, July, 08 2006
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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I recently learned the importance in the history of Poland of the writer Adam Mickiewicz -- whose 19th-century writings about a then-hypothetical Polish nation-state helped inspire the work which eventually would lead to the modern nation-state of...
