Max Blumenthal has been reporting on Rudy’s White Power problem: Giuliani has chosen Arthur Ravnel, Jr.—a hardcore, ideological neo-Confederate—to be the regional chair of his presidential campaign in South Carolina. Ed Sebesta, an authority on the neo-Confederate movement, has more on Ravnel here.
“By appointing Ravenel to his campaign,” Blumenthal writes, “Giuliani has recognized the influence […]
Thursday, December 15, 2005
I really have not kept up on what CORE does these days, but now I am utterly disinclined to try. For Martin Luther King Day 2006, CORE is honoring Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour—panderer to white supremacists who wears the confederate flag on his lapel with pride.
“We have invited Gov. Barbour as a representative of all […]
Peter Wagner has a fascinating new piece on Prisoners of the Census. If you’re new to what Peter does, his organization, the Prison Policy Initiative, does innovative research and advocacy on the problems that ensue from counting mostly urban Black and Latino prisoners as residents of the predominantly white rural communities where many are imprisoned. […]
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 […]
Posted on June 22, 2005
NEWS RELEASE JUNE 22, 2005
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:
Brenda Wright, National Voting Rights Institute (617) 624-3900, ext. 13
Peter Wagner, Prison Policy Initiative (413) 586-4985
http://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/news/fact-22-6-2005.shtml
Today, the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit is hearing arguments in two cases alleging that New York’s felon disenfranchisement laws violate the Voting Rights Act and […]
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 […]
Sorry it’s been so quiet over here. Had a bad cold last week and was also working on some writing for print publication (more on that soon).
Over Memorial Day weekend we visited my mother, and I spent some more time with my father’s papers. I brought a bunch of new papers back home, some […]
[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, hungry blues, jewish, judaism, old left/new left, proportional representation, race and racism, situations and predicaments, writings of PG
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Two Fridays ago (4/8), my mother called to tell me she had just talked with a retired journalist, named Jeff Prugh. Apparently Jeff had come across my posts on the Roosevelt Tatum story, and he wanted to talk with me. Between my father’s name and the mentions of Delmar, NY in the Tatum series (I […]
Friday, February 25, 2005
Well, no.
Giuliani helps raise campaign cash for Lott
February 22, 2005, 5:28 PM EST
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) _ When he was Senate minority leader, Mississippi Republican Trent Lott helped support New York City as it recovered from the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said.
On Tuesday, Giuliani was in Mississippi to give Lott […]
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, hungry blues, jazz, jewish, labor movement, long days short nights ms., old left/new left, race and racism, writings of PG
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Monday, February 14, 2005
The comparison between the function of the US prison system and our older, more explicitly racist laws should be enough to give readers pause. In honor of Black History Month, however, I will follow this post with two more to make a three part series. In Part 2, I will look further at the history of US racism to show what the structural purposes are behind many racist laws and policies. In Part 3, in light of the historical context in Part 2, I will look further at some of the implications and effects of miscounting prisoners. A brief review of the institutionalization of American racist ideology will show that though the implementation has changed, the basic structures upon which America was built remain very well intact.
Or, Why My Father Despised Rudolph Giuliani
The following is from an important history of Republican voter suppression tactics. Citations follow, below.
Mayoral Politics in New York, 1993
The 1993 New York City mayoral contest was a bitter rematch between incumbent Democrat David Dinkins, the city’s first black mayor, and Republican Rudolph Giuliani. Four years earlier, Dinkins had […]
quote of note:
The case received national media attention, largely because two of the three victims were white, Schwerner believes. In fact, he said, in the six weeks that FBI agents searched for the bodies, they uncovered the remains of 10 to 12 African-Americans, many of whom had been active in civil rights, and none of […]
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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