If you’re following me on Twitter or Tumblr, you know that I’ve been heavily preoccupied with the situation in Wisconsin. So much is at stake for Wisconsin and the country, and the labor movement legacy runs deep in my veins. But I’d like everyone to take their eyes off Wisconsin for long enough to take [...]
We Interrupt Our Regularly Scheduled Support for Wisconsin Because Detroit is Burning
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 21. Feb, 2011 in breaking news, children, civil rights, class and poverty, economic policy, education, family, human rights, labor movement, race and racism
Out with the New and in with the Old
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 16. Jan, 2008 in situations and predicaments, tech, Weblogs
My new tumblelog has arrived at http://minorjive.net (feed). A while ago I decided to set up another WordPress blog as a tumblelog, to keep clippings of web content that I come across on the web. I didn’t like the limited functionality of the popular hosted Tumblr service, so I thought it would be better to [...]
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Folks I've got them hungry blues
And nothin' in this to lose
People tellin' me to choose
Between dyin' and lyin' and
keep on cryin'
Tired of them hungry blues
Listen ain't you heard the news
There's another thing to choose
A brand new world
clean and fine
Where nobody's hungry
And there's no color line
A thing like that's worth
anybody dyin'
I ain't got a thing to lose
But them doggone hungry blues
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