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Monday September 03, 2012 · 11:16 AM PDT

2012/09/03 · 11:16

Of course I have to post this today. And probably will every Labor Day.

No step towards a more civil society was ever taken without a people's movement demanding it. No king, lord or robber baron ever ceded power over society out of the goodness of his heart. Aristocrats and plutocrats fought tooth and nail, with clubs and guns and spies and coercion, to stop common people from getting together and deciding a common course for a common good, the right of association. And if you say people's movements have had their day, that they are no longer needed or relevant, that it is okay to now RESCIND that right, then you prove in the same breath the absolute need for them.

No society ever got freer by taking away people's rights and telling them to shut up and know their place. They got the opposite of free.

Wake up and fight.

Solidarity.

Wisconsin

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Tuesday June 05, 2012 · 12:05 PM PDT

2012/06/05 · 12:05

Tallied signatures deep into nights, phonebanked, marched, canvassed, did whatever scutwork was needed as part of an ad hoc army of awesome, real, decent people coalescing to save Wisconsin. Our brothers and sisters across the state have done something incredible. The neo-fascist horde emanating from America's corporate towers drew the line in the sand in their state. Wisconsin stepped right the fuck up to it.

So I figured maybe I should contribute something else, something to honor all those people who did not let evil flourish by standing by and doing nothing. This song is for Wisconsin. It is also for Ohio, Iowa, Michigan, Tennessee, Florida and everywhere wealthy assholes have decided government governs best by governing least and that means removing those pesky rights of human beings that societies are formed to protect.

Because June 5 is not the end of anything. It is the start of something.

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