Everybody Say Freedom

All right, so I'm a junior in American High School which is year 12 for your Brits out there. Like most students my age I'm starting to panick about which schools to attend and which majors to take. I think I've come up with some ideas about where I'd like to go either the University of Arkansas, University of Texas at Austin, or University of California-Berkeley. I'm adamant about attending Berkeley but The UoA and UoT-Austin have both mailed me applications for their schools.

So right now, I'm putting that on the back burner and focusing on what I want to major in. I'm thinking of majoring in American History and getting a minor in African-American History. In order for my own edification and for general consultation, do any of you workers and university students recommend any outstanding works in the field of African-American and general American history? Right now I'm reading a book on African American history which I find intersting but it is targeted towards those who do not normally focus on the ins-and-outs of history. I may read The Souls of Black Folk and I have requested There Comes a Time: The Struggle for Civil Rights from my local library.

And now for the song of the day,
Did I disappoint you or let you down?
Should I be feeling guilty or let the judges frown?
'Cause I saw the end before we'd begun,
Yes I saw you were blinded and I knew I had won.
So I took what's mine by eternal right.
Took your soul out into the night.
It may be over but it won't stop there,
I am here for you if you'd only care.
You touched my heart you touched my soul.
You changed my life and all my goals.
And love is blind and that I knew when,
My heart was blinded by you.

Yes, I actually listen to James Blunt.

IWW & I

On the IWW,

The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of the working people and the few, who make up the employing class, have all the good things of life. Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organize as a class, take possession of the means of production, abolish the wage system, and live in harmony with the Earth. ... Instead of the conservative motto, 'A fair day's wage for a fair day's work', we must inscribe on our banner the revolutionary watchword, 'Abolition of the wage system.' It is the historic mission of the working class to do away with capitalism. (IWW Preamble)

I love the IWW. It is perhaps the most ingenious American workers organisation of all time. It's a shame the old union has declined.


We're Americans, thus we symbolise our movement with a Dutch wooden shoe

On I,
Sorry I haven't posted on here for a while. I've got a lot of work from school and I'm going through some tough personal problems. I don't know when the next post on mass movements will be. I may do a post on critical theory soon though.



There's no combination of words
I could put on the back of a postcard
No song I could sing
But I can try for your heart
Our dreams, and they are made out of real things
Like a, shoebox of photographs
With sepiatone loving
Love is the answer,
At least for most of the questions in my heart
Like why are we here? and where do we go?
And how come it's so hard?
It's not always easy and
Sometimes life can be deceiving
I'll tell you one thing its always better when we're togeth