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Student Mario Savio at UC Berkeley during the Free Speech protests in 1964.
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‘…On this electric stretch of public land…’
Web photo courtesy of ABC News Over the weekend, we saw two competing visions of America in the form of citizens standing (and marching) for what they believe is best for the country, all of it in public view on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. I wrote this poem…
Read More »‘Ready to Go’
I wrote this poem in late 2008 after Barack Obama was elected president but before his inauguration. The title is from his campaign chant that he got from a woman who supported him: “Fired up! Ready to Go!” The poem is not so much about him as the sense of…
Read More »From Malaysia to Lowell: A Poem Travels
Following are a few email messages between Malaysia and Lowell this weekend. The story begins with Swagata Sinha Roy finding a poem of mine, “Deep in the Weave,” on the web, very likely in a post by my blogging colleague Marie, who shared on this blog a post from the…
Read More »South Common at Risk. Here we go again.
I am surprised this topic is back in play. So, what’s the thinking by those who want to put a new high school on the South Common? Are they saying to themselves that it will be no problem to blow up that useless empty lot where there are not many…
Read More »Trump and ‘Kane’: For Real
Documentary filmmaker Errol Morris in 2002 captured businessman, now president-elect, Donald Trump talking about his favorite movie, “Citizen Kane.” Here’s an interview with Morris and a film clip. Thanks to lithub.com for the source material.
Read More »‘Disappearing Act of U.S. Middle Class’
Economics scholar Bill Lazonick, who teaches at UMass Lowell, contributes to the global discussion about money, labor, and ownership. Here is his latest, co-written for the Korea Times. “Disappearing Act of the U.S. Middle Class.” While pressing for restructuring, value extractors and academics who justified this activity argued that…
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December 28, 2016
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PaulM
Posted in Culture, Current Events, History, Lowell, Politics, Election 2016
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I’m not insensitive to the condition of the White Working Class today, which as an identity politics category seems accepted by chin-stroking pundits in comparison to Environmentalists, now some kind of No Go Zone for political strategists if you listen to the opinion writers (Don’t pander to those Green people).…
Read More »‘Oranges at Christmas’
This post was first heard as a radio essay on the Sunrise program of WUML, 92.5 FM, at UMass Lowell. Executive producer Chris Dunlap assembled writers in the area for the daily essay feature, a popular component of the morning public affairs show. I have shared this essay with rh.com readers…
Read More »‘The Christmas Fruitcake: An Ageless Tradition’ by Henri Marchand
Note from Henri Marchand: Like its subject this essay has been around, appearing first as a Sunrise radio essay on the former UMass Lowell-produced morning show, re-wrapped as a “Guest Column” piece in the Sun, and later posted on this blog. At Paul Marion’s request I re-gift it once more…
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