Author Archives | Mark Rudd
Mark Rudd has led a charmed, crazy life. He's been a remedial math teacher at CNM Community College, a father and grandfather, a union organizer, a federal fugitive, a writer (Underground: My Life in SDS and Weatherman), a revolutionary Marxist-Guevarist. Now he's a social democrat trying to develop a progressive wing of the Demo Party. Good luck with that.
Albuquerque Grief Circle
Last Sunday afternoon about a dozen old Jews and a handful of non-Jewish comrades, most dressed in black to signify mourning, gathered on a sidewalk outside the Jewish Community Center on Wyoming NE. The members of Jewish Voice for Peace--veterans of protest and organizing since Vietnam--hadn’t been able to come up with any better way to respond to Israel’s massacre of two-thousand people in Gaza than this grief circle. So, in the hot noonday sun, against the noise of three lanes of Sunday afternoon Heights traffic, they recited the Kaddish, the prayer for the dead, then read aloud the names of hundreds of Palestinian children killed...
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19. September 2014
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