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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-14

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@fabriciorodrix There are tens of thousands of similar stories. A woman with almost the exact same story is speaking at the rally on Wed. in reply to fabriciorodrix # Website for our March to the Finish Line just went live. Check it for our route, events, and updates. #melaniesmarch http://ping.fm/kAfvF # 250 people have joined the March to the Finish Line for Melanie. How about you? #melaniesmarch http://ping.fm/O8eht # Tell DC to finish health care now. March to the Finish Line for Melanie–February 24, 12:30pm, Washington DC #melaniesmarch # Powered by Twitter Tools Continue reading

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-24

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Rally and march for Health Care Reform at 11:00 am, Love Park, Art museums steps at 11;45 RSVP http://bit.ly/8MKAOz # Rally and march for health care reform Saturday 11:00 am, Love Park and then run up the steps of the the Museum with your poster at 11:45. # @BradyDale Sapir-Whorf bogus: If we can't talk about all the kinds of snow for which Eskimos have words, we can't make the hypothesis. in reply to BradyDale # Health care reform in critical condition. Phone bank today 1-8 and tmw 10 to 7:30 for Martha Coakley at UFCW Local 1776, 3300 Walton Road. # Powered by Twitter Tools Continue reading

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Send yourself my posts as PDF files!

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I jut found and installed a new WordPress that will let you send one of my blog posts to your email address as a pdf file. Given that I tend to write long, meaty, thoughtful (or just wordy) posts, this should make reading me a lot easier. Look for and fill out the the box at the bottom of each post. And make sure you click “more” to see the whole post before you do so. Continue reading

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15 Books

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1. Genesis and Exodus 2. Plato The Symposium 3. Plato The Republic 4. Aristotle Nichomachean Ethics 5. Machiavelli, The Prince 6. Blake, Songs of Innocence and Experience 7. Wordsworth, whatever book includes Tintern Abbey 8. Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 9. J. S. Mill, On Liberty 10. Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents 11. Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations 12. Richard Wright, Black Boy 13. Dorothy Dinnerstein, The Mermaid and the Minotaur 14. Philip Roth, The Professor of Desire 15. Charles Taylor, Collected Papers 16. Richard Rorty, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature 17. David Mayhew: Congress: The Electoral Connection Continue reading

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Coming Attractions: Learning from getting older

  By About me, Philosophy, Political Organizing

I wrote this essay about four years ago and have revised it from time to time since. I’ve started to post it once or twice but hesitated because, as a friend of mine said, “it’s awfully personal.” But I was looking for another piece of writing on my computef today and took a look at this again and decided both that I really like it and that it might be useful the people for whom it was written—my younger political and academic friends. With a few exceptions, I’ve left this written as it was when I last revised it two years ago, before I ran for Council and became a full time political organizer. I’ve just updated it in a few places to talk about the health care campaign I’m currently running in Pennsylvania I have been thinking about getting older lately. Partly this is because I turned fifty not… Continue reading

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-18

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CIGNA denied Dawn Smith care for her brain tumor. Come support her Thursday at noon at 1601 Chestnut. RSVP at http://ping.fm/xhey5 # RT @common_squirrel da do run run run da do run run # Support CIGNA victim Dawn Smith as she confronts their CEO Thursday October 15 at noon, 1601 Chestnut Street. RSVP at http://ping.fm/vp6V3 # was offered tix for Springsteen on the 20th but had to turn them down because of our Time To Deliver day of action. # Continue reading