Pensaments of an Anthropological Patzer

Archive for 13 November 2005

Sneer, Divide, Conquer.

Sunday, 13 November 2005, 20:39

Wednesday, I went with my friend Erin of LiP Magazine to a reading at City Lights bookstore from Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz‘ memoir of the Contra War Blood on the Border. Dunbar-Ortiz was a member of the American Indian Movement and has been a feminist and anti-war activist. Blood on the Border is her third memoir, following [...]

Why are radicals and progressives failing in our own backyard?

Sunday, 13 November 2005, 20:30

Of all the political events of this past Tuesday, that which interested me the most was a 6-5 decision by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to allow Home Depot to proceed with its plans to open a store in the Bayview/Hunter’s Point neighbourhood.