comments on recent threads

[gcf at panix.com]

kelley:
> ... 
> whenever you say this michael i'm deeply offended because i feel like i
> have to whip out my activist street cred to impress you.  i don't do it
> be.c i don't think i have to prove anything to anyone.  i know what i do
> and have done.   it's also troubling because i work  my tail off to be able
> to get to the point of being able to pontificate and learn and read and
> make arguments-- something i wish all  workers  could do and have time for.
>  positing one as more important than the other doesn't seem especially
> helpful.  coming to some sort of leftist consciousness is deeply bound up
> with mastering the ability to think in different ways than you've been used
> to *and* it often enough involves being able to articulate yourself through
> the kinds of academic arguments that we engage here
> ...

I'd be glad to chatter about my work (play?) with Food Not
Bombs and anarchist oatmeal cookies, but I've always
regarded and treated this list as pretty theoretical, and my
activities by contrast are rather simple-minded and extremely
local.  But if you're curious, anarchist oatmeal cookies will
be showing up at the Reclaim The Streets exercise in NYC this
Friday unless I'm busted on the way to it.  For a recipe see
http://www.etaoin.com/A (that's an upper-case A, standing for
you-know-what).

Gordon