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Occupy and the Tea Party

October 8, 2012 by PaulM Posted in Culture, Current Events, History, Lowell, Election 2012 1 Comment

The biggest surprise to me this fall is the absence of massive youth demonstrations in favor of President Obama or at least in opposition to the trickle-down, “voodoo” economics that is still the favorite approach of the national Republican leaders. I thought for sure after last fall and winter that…

New UMass Lowell-Boston Herald Poll: Occupy & Tea Party Fare Better than Wall Street and Government

November 7, 2011 by PaulM Posted in Culture, History, Lowell, Politics, Election 2012 Leave a Comment

FROM UMASS LOWELL PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICE AND CENTER FOR PUBLIC OPINION 11/06/2011 By Christine Gillette, (w) 978-934-2209, (c) 978-758-4664, Christine_Gillette@uml.edu If you have trouble viewing the charts in this release, please e-mail Christine_Gillette@uml.edu. Nov. 6, 2011 Backers of Opposing Groups Largely Share Dislike of Government, Corporations; UMass Lowell Holds Forum…

I’m Not Making This Up

October 10, 2010 by PaulM Posted in Culture, Election 2010, History, Lowell, Poetry, Politics 2 Comments

The whole inside back page of the NYTimes Book Review today has an essay by Lee Siegel comparing the Tea Party with the Beats (Kerouac, Ginsberg, and the other Beat Generation writers of the 1950s and ’60s). The essay is a cultural stretch in many ways, but makes for surprising…

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