Mood:
hungryFirstly, I found some interesting US websites: When searching Google for the words 'Binary, Politics, Left, Right" I discovered many things, including a communique from the Buffalo Revolutionary Marxist Collective, in a debate with a lecturer; an article critiquing the dynamics of coalitions, some awesometranslations of German progressive texts,
I found Margo Kingston's webdiary on the election,- This linked to a funny UK article about how they elected a monkey mascot as mayor in one local govt election. On indymedia, I found an ABC transcript of an expose of George Pell and Tony Abbott's collaboration to undermine Labor.
I looked on the website of the Medical Journal of Australia, and looked at some of their articles on social and environmental health. There was a very interesting retrospective by Simon Chapman, a founder of BUGAUP. Also was a story by a Greenpeace medic who was recently arrested and incarcerated in a Swedish prison. Also, an article by Alex Wodak about a thwarted heroin trial in Canberra.
I alsoConcurred strongly with Ruth Ostrow: she burst into tears at the height of her career when asked "What drives you to work 16 hour days"? (I came across this article whilst searching for her on Google, because she was quoted in the Herald saying that she was a closet Anarchist, and that's why she disagreed with morals- I disagreed with her that there is a necessary connection between the two beliefs)
Marvelling at Lyn Carson's work on Deliberative Democracy, her conversation with George Monbiot, her article on the new role of activists (PDF). I also discovered the work of her former supervisor, and now co-writer, Brian Martin (and supervisor to some of my friends)
What a way to spend a public holiday....
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