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David Weiner received his doctorate in sociology from the University of Texas at Austin in 1964 and subsequently taught at SUNY/Buffalo and The University of Houston, where he received a Teaching Award. He currently teaches community college students in his home city, Austin. During the last half century, and currently, he has promoted and assisted community organizations opposed to racism and inequality. His major focus recently has been the warehousing of minority children in public schools, and the misuse of Zero Tolerance policy.
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Helium Shortage Threatens Partying SHARE
NBC highlighted how Helium shortages will cut down on the fun people have releasing gas filled balloons into the atmosphere, without mentioning where they wind up and with what consequences.
Fascists Aren't Necessarily Fools SHARE
Robert Scheer's piece in TruthDig today, How Bill Clinton Paved the Way for Trump's War on Immigrants, is worth a careful read.The Left still has far to go toward creating a movement visibly capable of challenging plutocracyScheer describes only another tip of an iceberg of Dem Party politics serving oligarchy. Fortunately, with resolve we can pretty easily change our party. Right wing commitment to fascism may be less the result of indoctrination coupled with mob-like compliance than with the accurate assessment of our nation as a well entrenched plutocracy, tacitly accepted by leaders of both political parties, with no real push back, yet, from any substantial number of the rest of us. Current democratic efforts to get the Right-People elected are doomed to failure unless the Right-People, once elected, enjoy constant, highly engaged support from their electors.
Trump's Immigration Remarks Outrage Many, but Others Quietly Agree (NYT) SHARE
“What we see now is a conscious policy to reintroduce language that was previously not acceptable in debate,” said Gerald Knaus , the director of the European Stability Initiative, a Berlin-based research organization that has played a leading role in forming recent European migration policy. ibed migrants as a poison .
Lurching Into War SHARE
The momentum toward war has no possible upside, in all likelihood. I.e. no awful stability will emerge, for anyone. Our war lords are not only mean, they are also deluded.
