Hugh Nicoll’s Weblog

Two pieces on Dead Certain. Read ‘em ‘n’ weep . . . .
Jim Rutenberg in The New York Times.
Ed Pilkington in The Guardian.

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In the spring of 1969 when I was about to graduate from high school, Dr. King had been gone for a year, black power was in its ascendency (and in the FBI’s sights as we would learn all too well in December of that year. To remember it as a time of many troubles sounds/feels [...]

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“Seeds of Change,” a Grace Lee Boggs piece on the Bill Moyers Journal site asks a host of What must be done? questions for our time. She quotes Margaret Wheatley on the necessity of cultivating a new way of thinking about how we should participate in our troubled societies:
“From a Newtonian perspective, our efforts [...]

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