From Howard Zinn”™s A People”™s History of the United States:
“Columbus tried again for gold, but this time he and his men didn”™t go looking for it. They ordered all Taino* people 14 and older to deliver a certain amount of gold dust every three months. If they didn”™t, their hands would be cut off”¦. In 1500, Columbus wrote: there are many dealers who go about looking for girls; those from 9 to 10 are now in demand.”
Recorded scenes of slaughter will not be rewritten here. Suffice it to say, “a nexus of slavery, overwork and famine” produced diseases which took millions of lives. Thank goodness, Minnesotans will never again honor Columbus.
Dialectics?
In October”™s “Raise Your Voice”, in reflecting on the local indigenous arts scene, the expression ”˜dialectical tension”™ was deployed. This created a number of “teaching moments” for the one who does The Alley bulk distribution (me).
For example, to a young man behind the counter in the Matthews Park building, I remarked: “Dialectical means that all things are self-contradictory (i.e., all material formations embody a unity of opposing forces) and therefore exist in motion and are subject to change.” A blank stare then ensued, to which I responded: “Hey, if this is not true, everything would forever remain the same.”… Read the rest “Raise Your Voice Indigenous Day Dialectics (Negation of the Negation)”
It was fun to watch the powers that be quickly scramble to mount an attack against rent control after Senator Bernie Sanders said he would implement a 3% national cap on all rent increases if he is elected.
Within days of saying it, the Star Tribune and the Pioneer Press ran anti-rent control editorials.
The “experts” that are quoted in those editorials have only one thing in their “tool boxes” to justify capitalism as a way to provide housing””“Hang in there renters, as we build more housing, rents will stabilize.” This is nonsense. New York is proof; where rents have been high and continue to get higher in New York City and this has been going on for fifty years there. Is not 50 years enough time to build enough housing to stabilize rents?
Raise Your Voice Indigenous Day Dialectics (Negation of the Negation)
By PETER MOLENAAR
From Howard Zinn”™s A People”™s History of the United States:
“Columbus tried again for gold, but this time he and his men didn”™t go looking for it. They ordered all Taino* people 14 and older to deliver a certain amount of gold dust every three months. If they didn”™t, their hands would be cut off”¦. In 1500, Columbus wrote: there are many dealers who go about looking for girls; those from 9 to 10 are now in demand.”
Recorded scenes of slaughter will not be rewritten here. Suffice it to say, “a nexus of slavery, overwork and famine” produced diseases which took millions of lives. Thank goodness, Minnesotans will never again honor Columbus.
Dialectics?
In October”™s “Raise Your Voice”, in reflecting on the local indigenous arts scene, the expression ”˜dialectical tension”™ was deployed. This created a number of “teaching moments” for the one who does The Alley bulk distribution (me).
For example, to a young man behind the counter in the Matthews Park building, I remarked: “Dialectical means that all things are self-contradictory (i.e., all material formations embody a unity of opposing forces) and therefore exist in motion and are subject to change.” A blank stare then ensued, to which I responded: “Hey, if this is not true, everything would forever remain the same.”… Read the rest “Raise Your Voice Indigenous Day Dialectics (Negation of the Negation)”