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Abolish the death penalty. Executions are premeditated murder.

is trying to decide on cover images for this month’s Anarchist Classics booklet (the famous “What is Authority?” fragment from GOD AND THE STATE).

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You’re telling me Pete Seeger’s music didn’t actually represent the unvarnished and unmediated voice and spirit of the American People and their Struggles and aspirations? That his musical persona involved a great deal of fudging, appropriation, repackaging, idiosyncratic reinvention, fakery and posturing? God damn I never heard of such a thing before in entertainment. Next you are going to tell me that Merle Haggard did not really turn 21 in prison doing life without parole. #AuthenticityIsBullshit

No snow yet. Classes cancelled again tomorrow, though.

One of the most entertaining parts of doing prepatory research for my C.I.W./alt-labor column at Reason.com: reading through several pro-employer lobby websites dealing with CIW and alt-labor groups, in which pro-business conservative moaning about all the “loopholes” in NLRB labor law, and urging Congress to pass stricter labor regulations so that the NLRB can intervene more aggressively in labor market disputes. http://ift.tt/1f9nW9H http://ift.tt/19Zb34J etc. #Unions #LaborLaw #StateCapitalism #BossesForBureaucracyGreedAndBigGovernment

To-day, I’m @ Reason.com: http://ift.tt/1d66OiJ In which I write about the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, alt-labor tactics, farmworker organizing, and CIW’s recent victory in getting a penny-per-pound agreement from Walmart. #CIW #FellowWorkers #WildcatUnionism

Vote Alfred Bester. (He’s on the second page, which is itself as gross an injustice as anything else on this list.)

Huh. Classes at AU apparently cancelled tomorrow, on the possibility that there might be “more than 2 inches of snow”? http://ift.tt/1jCdxsQ (Queue up image macro about snow and school in the North and South, I guess. . .)

Q. Do any of y’all knowledgeable on Virginia, early US history, or the history of slavery know of any evidential basis or explanation for the following assertion about Virginia law: “For only 8 years was it legal. Virtually from its inception c. 1650 to 1865, freeing slaves in Virginia was illegal . . .” Made here: http://ift.tt/Mm86Rq as part of a partial apologia for Thomas Jefferson? The Virginia statute books from both before and from years after Jefferson’s death seem directly to contradict this: http://ift.tt/1mP3X3f http://ift.tt/Mm84sL Maybe there is something that I am missing? But if so, what?