Monday, December 05, 2005

Politics on your plate, when Arnold met Tookie, doubting Wikipedia, and Mickey Z. goes Italian


Two excerpts from my new, food-related article:

As most of us in America wallow in a season of gastronomical over-indulgence, here’s some food for thought: In the late 1960s, thanks to Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers, deciding whether or not to buy grapes was a political act.

“Food Not Bombs volunteers believe that it’s not too late to help build an alternative to transnational corporate greed,” says founder Keith McHenry. “People, through their actions, can change the political agenda.”

To read the complete article, please click here:
http://tinyurl.com/c6dyl
(It’s excerpted from 50AR)

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What a difference 30 years makes...

One afternoon in the mid-1970s, Stanley “Tookie” Williams, a keen bodybuilder and the co-founder of the Crips gang, was walking along the boardwalk at Venice Beach, Santa Monica, near Los Angeles. He passed the then Mr. Olympia, Arnold Schwarzenegger, who was out for a stroll with a friend.

“See that guy there?” Mr. Schwarzenegger said, pointing to Williams’ bulging muscles. “Those aren’t arms, they’re legs.”
Full story: http://tinyurl.com/ad2tv

E-mail Arnold to request clemency for Tookie:

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Wiki can be tricky...

“People will be defamed. But that’s the way free speech is. Think about the gossip world. It spreads. There’s no way to correct it, period. Wikipedia is not immune from that kind of maliciousness, but it is, relative to other features of life, more easily corrected.”
Story here: http://tinyurl.com/cqrqq

(Personally, I trust everything I read at Wiki is 100% accurate.)

...and utilizing Wikipedia as a convenient segue:


Self-promoting Demagoguery Ahead


Tutto in Vendita
Check it out, I have an article in a new political anthology published in Italy: http://tinyurl.com/86pdy
Also in the book: William Blum, Amy Goodman, Vandana Shiva, Derrick Jensen, Dahr Jamail, and more.


Ciao, baby...

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