[This post is the the third in a series (1, 2).]
Like Marshall Kirkpatrick, I want it all.
I want my data to be free, I want to be in control of it and I want to have control over my privacy as well. Is that too much to ask? The watchdog group Privacy International released their […]
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Saturday, January 12, 2008
Since my recent post on domestic surveillance and J. Edgar Hoover’s secret plan for mass detentions of suspected “subversives,” I’ve come across a number of blog posts that make interesting supplements to the sources I originally assembled. I’m posting excerpts from two historically focused pieces here and will follow up soon with another post that […]
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Tagged blacklists, communism, fbi, film, huac, organized crime, privacy, surveillance, unions
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Sixty years ago today the US dropped the nuclear bomb called Little Boy over the central part of Hiroshima, killing at least 66,000 people.
In honor of this year’s Hiroshima Day, I am posting this excerpt from my father’s Political Autobiography.
By now the McCarthy period was upon us. The CIO was split and the traditional antagonisms […]
No, damn it. Albert Einstein was a political radical and anti-racist.
When it came to how to handle Einstein’s ashes or his house on Mercer Street, everyone involved meticulously adhered to his wishes. But when it involved his ideas, and especially his concerns about what he called America’s “worst disease,” the fact that Einstein wanted his […]
to cash in…
AP Reporter Heather Clark Albuquerque Journal reports on Shigeko Sasamori’s experience as a survivor of the US atomic bomb, dropped on Hiroshima, August 6, 1945. Her story is one of the many we must repeat and remember:
The 73-year-old grandmother was a 13-year-old school girl when she saw the nuclear bomb drop from the […]
WHITE SANDS MISSLE RANGE, New Mexico (AP) — Emmett Hatch’s grandmother ordered him to drop to his knees and pray on July 16, 1945, shortly after the world’s first atomic blast.
She was awake at 5:29:45 Mountain War Time that morning in Portales to make breakfast and saw the explosion from more than 220 miles (350 […]
Anniversary of the first atomic bomb testing brings back memories to residents
By James W. Crawley
MEDIA GENERAL NEWS SERVICE
BAXTERVILLE, Miss.
Billy Ray Anderson remembers the day the earth kicked up waves, the ground cracked, chimneys tumbled and the creeks turned black in this corner of the Deep South.
“The ground swelled up,” said Anderson. “It was just like […]
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[This is from my friend Marsha Joyner, who produced the TV series. I carried something else by her yesterday. –BG]
“All life on Earth has been touched by the event, which took place here.”
The official Trinity Site proclaims
For we are all Downwind
Atomic Bomb Series on ‘Olelo Channel 53 (Hawaii)
Sixty years ago on July 16, 1945, the […]
I first mentioned William Douthard in passing here. At the right is a flier from a civil rights rally I think my father organized, where William spoke (click on the image to enlarge).
William Douthard was a student demonstration leader in Birmingham, Alabama, which was where he and my father met. To many in the […]
[I never marked the first anniversary of HungryBlues back in March, but I think that gives me occasional license to rerun posts that are more than a year old. What follows is a slightly shortened version my post from this time (on the Jewish calendar) last year. I think I have some more readers since […]
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Thursday, September 2, 2004
Maybe it was 1937 when my oldest brother and I were in a local WPA theater production of Waiting For Lefty. I remember thinking that a union organizer was the noblest of all jobs even better than playing right field like Mel Ott. I also thought that Jewishsocialist was one word and that Jews who were not socialists were the exceptions even though my mother’s family was among the exceptions.
We were a decidedly secular family. Judaism was some old fashioned thing that my paternal grandmother held onto and it was sort of embarrassing. I did love seders at my Aunt Beck’s house because my Uncle Sam made Exodus come alive. To me Moses was a union organizer and socialist revolutionary and John L. Lewis all rolled into one.
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