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		<title>ACTA of Desperation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 01:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the more memorable jokes in Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was the one about the supercomputer which, on being asked the meaning of life, supplied the answer ‘42’. One of capitalism’s most profound illogicalities is its constant need to render unquantifiable things – like knowledge &#8211; in monetary terms so that its beancounters can do their sums properly. It’s the same joke, only accountants don’t get the laughs. NASA is pulling out of its agreement with the European Space Agency over the planned ExoMars Rover programme, citing lack of funds. It has already ceased supplying the International Space Station. Given that the ISS is the most expensive thing ever to have been built by human beings, this seems rather like spoiling the spaceship for a ha’porth of tar, but there’s a slump on and the purse-strings are being pulled tight. Science is worth the money, says Barack Obama’s budget, as long as it’s somebody else’s money. The price of knowledge is being addressed in a different way by the recent signing by 22 countries of ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, which is the latest international attempt to establish base-line rules for protecting intellectual property rights (IPR). [...]


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		<title>What Was He Fighting For? (Phil Ochs as the Sound of the New Left)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 12:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MS</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new documentary film on the life and music of Phil Ochs, “There But For Fortune,” is being shown in a several US cities now. It hasn’t come too soon, certainly, because Ochs today is largely unknown outside the circle of lefty baby-boomers. Often Ochs is dismissed as a “topical” songwriter whose music, for that reason, hasn’t stood the test of time. “He’s no Bob Dylan,” his critics sometimes say. Dylan himself famously told Ochs he was “just a journalist” (as he threw him out of his limousine). This image of Ochs owes much to his own statements, for he frankly admitted that the pages of newspapers and magazines were a source of songs ideas, saying “every headline is a potential song.” He underscored this by naming his first album “All The News That’s Fit To Sing” – punning on the masthead of The New York Times. The origin of a song hardly determines its value, though; and in his best political songs Ochs cultivated poetry out of such pulpy fertilizer, just like Hank Williams finding song ideas from his sister’s True Romance comic books. Whatever one thinks of his music, though, it was clearly linked to the 1960s New [...]


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		<title>I read some Marx&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 06:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FN Brill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Utah Phillips once said that IWWs used hymns as the basis of their famous labor songs because the tunes were pretty and every one knew them. All the IWW would have to do was change the lyrics so they made sense. Now some folks make more sense of Katy Perry&#8217;s &#8220;I kissed a girl&#8221;&#8230; No related posts.


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		<title>Desmond Dekker &#8211; Israelites</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 08:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Get up in the morning, slaving for bread, sir,/So that every mouth can be fed./Poor me, the Israelite. Aah.&#8221; No related posts.


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		<title>Strike &#8211; the movie</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FN Brill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Demo trailer for the movie musical "Strike!" now in pre-production. O'Reilly (Carson Nattrass) convinces his army mate McDougall (Jon Ted Wynne) that they have more in common with their former WW1 enemies than their rulers. ... "Strike!" is based on the actual events of the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike.


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		<title>Street Sweeper Social Club</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Off the breaking backs of others/Where you got all your bucks/Till we make the revolution I just hope your life sucks&#8221; Street Sweeper Social Club is an American rap rock supergroup, formed in Los Angeles, California in 2006. The band primarily consists of guitarist Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and vocalist/emcee Boots Riley of The Coup No related posts.


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		<title>They&#8217;re not the world&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FN Brill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A classic subversion of &#8220;We are the world&#8221; by the Houston band Culturcide. As Utah Phillips said, &#8220;Change the words so they make more sense.&#8221; No related posts.


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		<title>Television &#8211; Drug of A Nation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 06:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FN Brill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Michael Franti and the Disposable Heroes: &#160; No related posts.


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		<title>Live Aid &#8211; another lesson from history</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2007 08:05:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twenty-two years ago today Bob Geldof asked &#8220;..why do people starve on one side of the world while on the other people are paid not to produce food, or &#8220;surpluses&#8221; are allowed to rot? He said that no-one had yet answered that question for him satisfactorily..&#8221; Well, in an article titled &#8216;Politics of Live Aid (Socialist Standard, September 1985) we let him know that &#8220;famine is not a temporary upset in an otherwise harmonious world order which can be put right by a quick injection of money and sacks of grain: it is an endemic feature of a world system of society which dictates that those who have money to buy food can eat, and those who have no money must starve; that unsold food produced in one part of the world will not, in general, be transported to where it is needed because no profit would be made. For in our society food is not produced because people need it, but because those who own the farms and land can make a profit from it. And if it cannot be sold profitably then it is left to rot.&#8221; Fast forward twenty years and things must be better, after all [...]


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		<title>THIS LAND IS THEIR LAND</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:28:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You must have heard the song by Woody Guthrie: “This land is your land, This land is my land, … “ It should be, but in fact it isn’t. Many millions of working people own no land at all. Those who are a bit better off own the small plot on which their house stands — a fraction of an acre. So who does own the land? Over 95 percent of the privately held land in the United States is owned by just 3 percent of the population. (1) These are the people who own the land, the industry, the technology — all the means of life on which we depend. This land is THEIR land. A land survey conducted in 1999 (2) found that the 53,000 largest landlords — those owning 2,000 acres (3 square miles) or more — own a total of 350 million acres, worth $366 billion. (3) On average each of these people owns about 7,000 acres (11 square miles), worth some $7 million. Even this is quite modest by comparison with the largest landowners. King Ranch (Texas), owned by the Kleberg family, is worth about a billion. At 825,000 acres or 1,300 square miles, it [...]


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