Saturday, December 15, 2007
The Prison Policy Initiative—with Demos as a partner—has submitted analysis to the Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) in Geneva of the discriminatory US Census approach to counting prisoners. PPI and Demos conclude that US Census practices violate international law.
NEW YORK, Dec. 13 — The United States Census practice of counting […]
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Tagged census, Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, demos, geneva, international law, prison policy initiative, prisons, racism
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By the Arkansas Delta Truth and Justice Center*
How US Attorney obtained its indictment against James Ford Seale
How MS AG could have obtained more indictments in Neshoba
What may have been the key to US attorney Dunn Lampton proceeding to obtain an indictment against James Ford Seale for the […]
As mentioned in my update, below, John Grohol finally replied to my rebuttal—back in the comments at his blog, where he could enjoy a less than rigorous standard for addressing the evidence that I brought to the table.
Grohol has gracioulsy let through the comments that I left today, without long delay. Below is what I […]
Those were the first words from Scott B. Smith, Jr when he reached me on the phone earlier this afternoon.
He wanted to inform me and all who knew her that Linda Dehnad, his wife, died this morning of undetermined causes at age 69. Linda went to Jackson Hospital in Montgomery, AL last night because she […]
Saturday, December 24, 2005
The People’s Declaration: Survivors Assembly Demands
Identified by survivors on December 9, 2005
We demand that the local, state and federal government make conditions possible for our immediate return. This includes the following:
The Nagin Administration must make temporary housing such as apartments, hotel rooms, trailers and public housing developments available for us while we rebuild our homes.
The […]
Saturday, December 10, 2005
Twenty-five years ago today (12/9), I was eleven years old, going on twelve. I swear I knew every Beatles song by heart, knew every published detail of the band’s history. And John was my favorite. He was the coolest one. His songs were the best ones. HIs solo work was the strongest. He had real […]
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 […]
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 […]
Also filed in Books, Paul Greenberg 101, civil rights movement, disarmament, family, jewish, judaism, nyc politics, old left/new left, proportional representation, race and racism, situations and predicaments, writings of PG
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Wednesday, February 23, 2005
I mentioned in part III of this series that I can date the handwritten drafts of Long Days Short Nights because of a passage about Frankie Newton. I am posting that passage here, though it was not intended for publication. It is an unpolished prose sketch, written in one shot, to get the material down […]
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Dad had a number of stories like this one, lessons in being on the outside. The most developed one, and the most fully fictionalized, is “Lonesome Blues” , the story I posted in September, named after the song by Louis Armstrong and his Hot Fives . In “Lonesome Blues,” the high school years of a suicide jazz musician, Mo Bartel, closely mirror my father’s.
Also filed in Books, Paul Greenberg 101, civil rights movement, document, family, frankie newton, jazz, jewish, labor movement, long days short nights ms., nyc politics, old left/new left, race and racism, writings of PG
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Tuesday, February 22, 2005
I wondered if Dan Morgenstern could help me find out more about Frankie Newton. A little googling revealed that Morgenstern is the director of the Institute of Jazz Studies , housed not at Princeton but at Rutgers. I sent him a letter on September 7, 1999. More than a month went by. I’d just about given up all hope of receiving a reply when in mid-October an envelope arrived in the mail with “Institute of Jazz Studies” in the return address. A letter from Morgenstern!
Sunday, February 20, 2005
The process began in 1991, when I made my first attempt to understand my father’s relationship with Frankie Newton, the mostly forgotten jazz trumpet player, whose career peaked in around 1939, during the period when his band backed Billie Holiday at the Cafe Society in New York.
Those of you who don’t know me in real life don’t know that my wife lost her job on Friday. If you haven’t read my about page, you may not know that I’ve been the stay at home parent, taking care of our son (now 21 months old) during the day. On Wednesday morning when I heard the awful news about our elections I said to myself, when I start working outside the home full-time I have to do political work. What else is there to do now?
My father graduated from the eighth grade of Public School 89, Elmhurst, NY (Queens), in June of 1941. Like other kids graduating PS 89, he planned to go on to high school about a half mile away, at Newtown High School. According to his 8th grade autograph book, my father’s favorite author was Jack London, his favorite book The Sea Wolf ; Stardust was his favorite song; he loved baseball and worshipped Mel Ott.
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