Tim DeChristopher has been sentenced to two years in prison and is now in Herlong Federal Correctional Institution. Tim had the brass to walk into an auction in Utah where federal lands were being bid for by various extractive industries and to bid himself. Talk about criminal behavior! Many of the parcels were in environmentally sensitive . . . → Read More: Tim DeChristopher
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Troy Davis has been scheduled for execution again. His case has drawn worldwide attention because it looks like yet another miscarriage of justice that may lead to the killing of an innocent man. Many of the witnesses against him have recanted their testimony, reporting that they felt coerced by police to testify against him. There . . . → Read More: Troy Davis It’s the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and we are less secure now than before. The trauma of the attacks, the painful loss of human life, the grief of those who lost loved ones and our own heightened sense of vulnerability have changed the way we feel about our world. Many who lost loved . . . → Read More: 9/11 I spent the last week reading Dahr Jamail’s books about the occupation of Iraq and soldier’s resistance to it. I began to consider the various wars and interventions that form the backdrop for so much of the current chaos: the Cold War, the Korean War (not really a war but a police action since wars have . . . → Read More: That war thing The Keystone XL project to pipe tar sands oil from Alberta Canada to the Gulf Coast for refining and shipping is another disastrous proposition put forth by oil companies and their minions. It would cross the entire United States! This project is another crazy example of an environmental boondoggle designed to perpetuate our addiction to . . . → Read More: Keystone XL Here’s a copy of a letter I wrote to the Press Democrat regarding a photo in a recent PD article showing kids handling an assault rifle at a family event at which the police department had a table. The letter was printed in the PD 8/23/11.
I found the photo of kids handling an . . . → Read More: Cops, kids and guns My new web site is finally up! I’ll be using this blog to share updates about my music and activities, and to comment on events as they happen. Not everything makes it into a song. Let me know what you think of the new web site, how it works, glitches, etc. Some folks have asked about . . . → Read More: The blog is live! |
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