So, Bob Moses (who died a little while back) was a very big deal in the early 1960s as part of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee - a black-led activist group trying to fight for Civil Rights in the Deep South (which was a very very dangerous thing to do). This below is a clip... Continue Reading →
Liberals, losers and air-conditioned meetings with Important People
I remember discussing, 30 years ago, what Martin Luther King was doing the night before he was assassinated. He was talking to sanitation workers about their strike and the upcoming poor people's march on Washington. One of the two people in the conversation was scoffing, saying that wasn't real politics and that he should surely... Continue Reading →
Of Midnight Cowboy, Sea Surface Temperatures and our (didn’t need to be inevitable) doom…
There's a scene early on in the film Midnight Cowboy. Young gorgeous Jon Voight is a hick in the big city (New York), from the middle of nowhere (Texas, iirc). He sees someone (a "bum") lying unconscious on the sidewalk and instinctively strides towards him to see what help he can offer. Then he looks... Continue Reading →
Pathologies of organisers… Four examples
A few more clippings from "Dreams Die Hard" by the late David Harris. There are two lovely pen portrait about Bob Moses, and his thoughts on leadership - I will come to those another time. For now, by way of contrast, here's some various stuff about Allard Lowenstein, who clearly needed to be the "key"... Continue Reading →
Learning from the 60s – “Dreams Die Hard”
I've been fascinated by the 1960s for a very long time. The first real 'kick' on this was, I think, in 1991, when I was into the late period, of 1968 to 1970. I was lucky enough then to do a great course at UC Santa Cruz, which broadened it out to include China and... Continue Reading →
New Conversation article abt history, Sunak and the climate culture wars
You can read it here. And yes, I screengrabbed this below. Bugger #humblebrag, just straight up #brag
1979 – Thatcher Government trying to ‘reduce oversensitivity to environmental consideration’ in planning.
So, on 18 November 1979 the Sunday Times reported that "leaked Cabinet papers record the Government's efforts to 'reduce oversensitivity to environmental consideration'(The Sunday Times, 18 November 1979). " (Lowe and Morrison, 1984: 86) I don't have digital access to the Sunday Times, sadly. But I do have access to the Times. And on October... Continue Reading →
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