Anarchism and the Beliefs of Mikhai... Nov 19, 2009
Bakunin was the founder of anarchism, a revolutionary movement that included Peter Kropotkin, Emma Goldman, and Alexander Berkman ... During a rally of angry workers in New York City, Emma Goldman told the crowd to break the windows of shops and take what they needed. (Suite101.com)
'Ragtime' revival puts renewed emphasis on people Nov 16, 2009
Real historical figures such as Booker T. Washington, Henry Ford, Harry Houdini and Emma Goldman interact with Doctorow's own family creations whites, blacks and immigrant Jews ... Yet several of the supporting actors create strongly etched characters including Bobby Steggert as Mother's volatile, socially conscious Younger Brother; Jonathan Hammond, a robust Houdini; Donna Migliaccio, a no-nonsense, forceful Emma Goldman, and Christopher Cox as a spunky little boy who narrates much of the... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
LETTER: Obama dismantling free-market system Nov 13, 2009
FYI I love Karl Marx, oh yeah and Engles, and Emma Goldman, Peter Kroptkin, Noam Chomsky. So I AM THE RADICAL LEFT THAT YOU PEOPLE KEEP ON FEARING. " The Question wrote on Nov 11, 2009 12:43 PM:" There is no "free-market system." What we have is a kleptocracy run by corporations that buy the politicians who control the government. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Obama can take hope from a favourite author Oct 28, 2009
They are joined by a parade of historical figures, including Harry Houdini, Britney-esque celebrity Evelyn Nesbit and the socialist anarchist Emma Goldman. Doctorow's story is a sunny myth about the making of modern America. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Hedges’s ‘Empire of Illusions’ decries decline of American culture Aug 23, 2009
The genre that sustained the likes of Martin Luther, Emma Goldman, and George Orwell seems tired today, a shell of its once-formidable self. Perhaps it s a victim of this post-Freudian, post- 60s age: It s tough to smack slumbering readers awake when discontent is the new content, and the bourgeois shock themselves with fetishistic abandon. (Boston Globe)
Can't blame the voter for trying to be right Jun 19, 2009
If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal. One person actually mistook Tuesday's Richmond County sales tax election as an opportunity to vote in Columbia County. (The Augusta Chronicle)
'American Passage': It's Ellis Island's history, and ours, too Jun 16, 2009
d history lesson and timeline, albeit interesting, but the people who move the story along: the politicians, the WASP elite, the social reformers and the immigrants themselves, anarchist Emma Goldman being one of the most fascinating. She called Ellis Island "the worst dump I have ever stayed in.". (USA Today -- Life)
Police praised in Stanford gay rights protest march May 27, 2009
" Mitchell, a Stanford senior, said the Stanford rally and sit-in were organized by two groups: the Emma Goldman Society for Queer Liberation and the National Marriage Boycott, which he described as "a collection of queer people and allies who have agreed not to get married until all people can get married" in the United States. That would mean repeal of the national Defense of Marriage Act, and abandoning the "Don't ask, don't tell" policies of the military, he said. He said straight persons... (Palo Alto Online, CA)
It's theater, theater everywhere Apr 28, 2009
The pitch: Using a play-within-a-play structure, members of the Emma Goldman Theatre Brigade, a radical feminist theater company, are preparing for the opening night of "The Anastasia Trials in the Court of Women," a play about five women who are on trial for denying the identity of Anastasia Romanov. The trial that unfolds includes polling women in the audience, who help determine the course of the narrative. (Fresno Bee)
Melrose Religion Apr 28, 2009
Melrose - Melrose Unitarian Universalist Church In other news, the band Emma s Revolution will perform at the Melrose Unitarian Universalist Church, 70 West Emerson St., Melrose, on Saturday, May 9 at 7:30 p.m. Named for Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869-May 14, 1940), a Russian Jew, anarchist, activist and supporter of women s rights, Emma s Revolution includes singer/songwriters Pat Humphries and Sandy O, who describe themselves as social justice activists and have toured the country and sung at... (Melrose Free Press, MA)
Bruce Anderson: Anarchist Bookfair Mar 14, 2009
He said anarchists want what they have wanted since Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman lived in San Francisco and published the anarchist newspaper The Blast. "The end of capitalism is the goal. But since capitalism is destroying itself, we may be spared the great task.". (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Looking for love Feb 14, 2009
But just as the anarchist heroine Emma Goldman famously insisted that she didn't want to be part of the revolution if she couldn't dance, her ideological descendants are equally reluctant to be part of any struggle that won't let them look for love ... Emma Goldman (1869-1940), after being told agitators shouldn't dance. (BBC News -- UK)
