tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66312402466387982012-01-23T15:31:18.988-05:00Jacob Russell's Barking DogI am his Highness' dog at Kew:<br> Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?<br><br> <i>From the heart of South Philly-- Literary Yelps from an Irreverent Old Dog</i><br> The aesthetics of process: ruminations on poetry, literature and the intersection politics, art and the human condition.<br> <b>"So humble and benevolent is Papa Legba that he never needs sacrifice of pigs."</b><br><br><a name="2563642819"></a>Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.comBlogger7591100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-87857924403285378752012-01-23T15:28:00.002-05:002012-01-23T15:31:18.999-05:00The Fictive Reality of Realist Fiction The so-called “Middle-Class” are politically important, not because they vote, but as political commodities. Only commodities have political power. In consuming one becomes a class. In consuming, one becomes a commodity. Votes are both courted and counted by class. Votes do not reflect individual choices, but the commodification of class. A vote reifies the power of the voting class Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-64632289219362830152012-01-22T22:49:00.000-05:002012-01-22T22:49:03.220-05:00The Master of Sleep/ a fiction <!--[if !mso]> v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-59915752205174430092012-01-21T14:29:00.000-05:002012-01-21T14:29:04.453-05:00Invitation to perform, inform, rumble and roar -- all art is revolution and revolution is art! "A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having." Emma Goldman. Performers! Dancers! Poets! Occupy Philly is searching for its soul! We need you to help us find it -- let's put together awesome art from the heart for our General Assemblies. Live streamed to the World! Check out OP's new web page. Occupy Philly! Register. Click GROUPS on the Yellow bar JOIN Humanities: Art & Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-6689553878653759522012-01-16T12:30:00.000-05:002012-01-16T12:30:08.869-05:00The Martin Luther King Obama has forgotten The Revolutionary Martin Luther KingJacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-25994933150998583722012-01-16T11:45:00.000-05:002012-01-16T11:45:56.829-05:00Winter Strategy Retreat My thoughts on this question from the form sent out to Philly Occupiers: What are some of your goals for this strategy retreat? What do you hope will be accomplished? The structure of unity in diversity: discuss & define respective roles of GA & WGs... not definitions of what they are or of process, but a picture of how as parts, they come to make up a whole--and how THAT might better help usJacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-38713431669531176442012-01-15T13:10:00.000-05:002012-01-15T13:10:19.300-05:00A Distributed Neighborhood Collective Housing Network I've made a Doodle to set up a meeting for those interested in talking about and planning for Occupy shared communal housing. Send me your email and I'll forward the Doodle wjacobr@gmail.comJacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-38221823575356073232012-01-13T16:14:00.003-05:002012-01-14T11:13:44.247-05:00Curriculum Statement: Revolutionary Narrative Occupy Philly Free University Revolutionary Narrative: Toward a Poetics of Power Jacob Russell, Facilitator Relevant Experience: Novelist, published writer of poetry & fiction. 12 years teaching Freshman Composition and Introduction to English Literature, Saint Joseph’s University. Involved in many forms of political and social action over the past fifty years. -------- We make a humanly Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-30108422257959306252012-01-11T14:02:00.001-05:002012-01-11T14:10:34.285-05:00Reform? Or Revolution?This article would be a good vehicle for a discussion: are we a reform movement, seeking to tweak the system to make it (appear to be) a little better? Or do we seek fundamental, cultural, political and economic transformation--that is, a revolutionary movement? Unaddressed here is the larger question, unresolved--as to whether our efforts to address specific, definable problems are primary to Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-73614998551717097502012-01-09T11:39:00.001-05:002012-01-09T13:19:29.198-05:00Ideology of the CommonsReclaiming the Commons--a movement and ideology of the commons. Farming empty lots, free, universal education, communal housing--a succession of Occupation encampments, expanding and replacing the exploitative and exhausting capitalist economy by increments & revolutionary leaps with self-sustaining and self governing communities from a multiplicity of Common centers. Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-30850046116285857522012-01-03T00:34:00.001-05:002012-01-05T01:09:34.298-05:00A Distributed Neighborhood Collective Housing Network Seeking 18 (at least) compatible Occupiers to rent 3 houses in different neighborhoods--share rent and expenses, democratic internal decision making, open for use by OP for meetings, housing visitors to events and actions. 6 would do for starters... one house at a time, but the idea is to create a network of activist housing. Cheaper living. No more living in exile...come home to Occupy at Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-88820038279060289832011-12-31T09:45:00.000-05:002011-12-31T09:45:59.369-05:00Occupy Philly, photo year in review OCCUPY PHILLY 1.0Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-3404126654332333472011-12-29T12:55:00.000-05:002011-12-29T12:55:25.409-05:00Poetics of Power Every narrative is a struggle, not of, not about, for for power! Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-67004590223087620412011-12-28T14:27:00.003-05:002011-12-28T15:07:59.026-05:00WIP ... from Poem to the end of my days December 26-29 Time...    ...opens    umbrella unfolding    the rain -- who then       are The People --    tracing    Earth's backstory    tourists at the end of an ice age    what we wanted -- they paid for       without labor    without possessions -- being themselves    fossil fuel    wandered    happy & naked under the stars Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-9293862274065750302011-12-22T21:30:00.004-05:002011-12-22T21:46:09.929-05:00Ellen Joy: A Speculative Realist Criticism "We choose to seek, then, a non-projective, non-hermeneutic criticism that would multiply and thicken a text’s sentient, bottomless reality. This criticism would be better described as a commentary that seeks to open and not close a text’s possible “signatures.” Aesthetics may constitute a domain of illusions, but these illusions posses their own material reality and are co-sentient with us"  Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-70984664727781055712011-12-21T11:31:00.000-05:002011-12-21T11:31:03.643-05:00Where do we live? People build a house together. They use hammers and levels and planes, but they don't pretend they live in their tools. We use abstractions in our conversations, discussions--they are the tools of thought.... but too many believe they live in them, and the house we would live in together never gets built.Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-18152296851292368802011-12-20T00:45:00.003-05:002011-12-20T00:56:43.311-05:00Occupy Free University HERE And a good article in The Nation  Thank you Anarchists!Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-77140232591661095242011-12-19T14:58:00.008-05:002011-12-21T11:24:08.046-05:00A Pathology of Our Culture Why do we have so much difficulty discussing questions of value? That we have yet to come up with a clear code of conduct for meetings? That we can easily entertain ideas about digital discussions and voting, but have no way to examine what it is we desire from this--not what we want to happen or do--as some form of mechanical problem solving, but what we want to happen to us, what we desire Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-64783270959992654772011-12-19T11:00:00.001-05:002011-12-19T11:01:18.549-05:00Desire Democracy Imagination I post this out of context--as one post in a discussion on on-line voting and decision making. This is the heart of why I think this is a profoundly wrong way to build a democratic life together. Decisions that involve our mutual desires are built on, depend on-- our capacity for imaginative empathy--and nothing has been more degraded by our current alienating economic/social/power structure. Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-10190672594149463032011-12-15T15:00:00.002-05:002011-12-16T20:02:14.843-05:00Occupy Communal Housing--an Invitation for Working Group Please leave comment or email if you would like to come to a meeting OCCUPY PHILLY COMMUNAL HOUSING WORKING GROUP(Occ-COM-HOUSING) INVITATION TO JOIN To discuss structures, process & logistics for Occupy Philly 2.0 multiple communal housing network. WG would be open to all, agree to Occupy values of non-violence, transparency and participatory democratic process. Will discuss working Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-23717628939176285632011-12-14T00:16:00.000-05:002011-12-14T00:16:52.914-05:00Occupy Philly Process Larry takes you through a proposal at an early General Assembly Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-1535411548927348352011-12-13T17:19:00.002-05:002011-12-30T23:59:17.412-05:00 December 13, 2011 Imagine a piano ...      in the middle of a field      in the middle of Kansas      it’s about to rain      ten thousand meadow larks      at dusk      a tower built by the WPA      Coronado heading north, stopped here      plains Indians first saw horses from this gentle rise      grateful for work, laborers lay out sandstone blocks      it’s 1938      a war is about Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-52003893249197274642011-12-11T17:20:00.003-05:002011-12-24T16:01:37.554-05:00Video: Welcome address to Philly Occupy Together GatheringWhy we OccupyJacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-70431735995924872412011-12-09T22:10:00.006-05:002011-12-15T11:56:40.636-05:00Why We Occupy! Welcome address to Occupy Philly Together Regional Gathering, Saturday December 10, 2011 Video of this address HERE Movements begin with the telling of untold stories Nothing about us without us If I were to sum up in a single pair of simple phrases the essence of what the Occupy Movement has meant to me, it would be these two. The first is the motto of Media Mobilizing Project—a wonderfulJacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-79764977123553790342011-12-08T00:52:00.006-05:002011-12-08T10:13:15.018-05:00Video of Wells Fargo Action Wells Fargo Action Album of black & white photos of Occupy Philly post-eviction march. Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-87430705144080442932011-12-01T11:58:00.000-05:002011-12-01T11:58:06.205-05:00Occupy Thought! proposal for an Occupy Critical JournalI would like to see a journal--on-line, multi-lingual, but important to have cheap & easily reproduced and distributed print version (physical copy can be taken & read independent of electric digital wireless infrastructure access)--maybe networks of POD capable sites to reproduce on-line issues (see “Long Term Proposal for (Post encampment) Revolutionary Action” Occupy Thought! ... on Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-38613773231618213712011-11-29T14:27:00.003-05:002011-12-15T15:02:19.526-05:00A long term proposal for non-violent revolutionary action. See HEREJacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-3233488278573570522011-11-26T11:08:00.000-05:002011-11-26T11:08:41.994-05:00The Beginning is NearSoon they will come, the police. The city workers with their trucks. Our city of tents, our fights--all of it will disappear. Scrub away our presence, uproot the trees. Pile up the marble slabs we slept on. My mind drifts back in time. I am fishing on Lake Michigan with my father in his boat. This is shortly before he will die. My parents had bought a retirement cottage not far from Grand Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-25213041306141040962011-11-23T13:00:00.002-05:002011-11-23T13:02:26.404-05:00City of New York, destroyer of libraries: a conversation interrupted Librarians speak at a table covered with the few books salvaged from the 5,000 volume OWS People's Library--trashed by the City of New York. Heartbreaking. Many of these books were signed--with notes by authors. If there is a more powerful argument to carry on with this struggle where ever it may take us I don't know what it would be. Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-56300794060342843902011-11-21T16:54:00.008-05:002011-11-26T23:36:03.018-05:00Preparing for Arrest: a few tips These are practical suggestions to make arrest and short-term incarceration less stressful. For legal advice consult an attorney. You may not be thinking about civil disobedience, but if you’re near a protest where arrests are possible, even if only a bystander you may be at risk of arrest. Here’s a few things to keep in mind in no particular order. Please feel free to add suggestions in Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-27378930537214530572011-11-15T23:35:00.007-05:002012-01-01T23:10:19.965-05:00This is not the End of Occupy Philly...I’ve heard a lot of discontent about how Occupation conversations, meetings & assemblies are consumed with what some call minutia, the details of working out process, housekeeping, defending our camp from our anxious uncertainty about what the city has in store for us—uncertainty, I might add, which is tactically generated by the city to divide and distract us. We would be better, some tell us, Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-10931148906215015872011-11-14T11:12:00.001-05:002011-11-15T23:36:27.557-05:00Cops with Smilley FacesDo those cops ever look in a mirror and see how absolutely ridiculous they look in those silly Darth Vader Halloween outfits? Will someone please photoshop an image of one of those oh so scarey police lines--with smilley faces on all the face masks.Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-36836374152911141242011-11-13T14:02:00.001-05:002011-11-14T10:13:17.840-05:00When the Father Figure Frowns... The 99% mantra works as an invitation to the Big Tent, but as a facade of unity it is dangerously misleading. There are many of the 99%, not just the police, who will fight us, who will try to destroy us, many who simply don't understand how to transition from a hierarchical culture, who use intimidation to grasp for attention & power and work to undermine and betray the movement... sometimes Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-5119699375175384032011-11-12T11:45:00.000-05:002011-11-12T11:45:52.959-05:00What Spirit Stick tells me when Occupy Philly refuses to do what I KNOW is the The Right Thing. Jacob, Jacob… there’s no magic way to transform an idea into reality. No matter how passionately you believe in it--it takes work. Working with people, and working with people takes time, and just because things don't change in a brilliant flash doesn't mean nothing is happening, or that no else is working for what is right. If you have good ideas and your vision of what we need is Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-11634202936738065732011-11-10T13:31:00.001-05:002011-11-10T14:38:29.899-05:00Northeast Regional Occupation Conference Philly_OccupyTogether WG is planing & helping to organize local & regional Occupation conferences to workshop and discuss implications, strategy & logistics of expanding Occupations beyond the local level. Here is the webpage & email for POT (woot! ) Please check this out and come be a part of a growing movement. BREAKING NEWS! Come to Philly & meet with OWS on the NYC to D.C. march, 11/13-14.Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-22651357083085646162011-11-02T12:39:00.000-04:002011-11-02T12:39:25.329-04:00Call for Civil Disobediance against Privitizing our Democratic CommonsIf Occupation Philly moved early, we could come back, small wave after wave, in non-violent actions of civil disobedience--clearly targeted at the abomination of a 30 year lease, privatizing yet another democratic commons--and do so without endangering the Occupation itself. Additional benefits--SUPPORTING the construction of access for the disabled 30 years late--at the transit convergence of Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-60203386658560544232011-10-28T10:38:00.000-04:002011-10-28T10:38:56.725-04:00Occupy the World! Alexandre Machado de Sant'Anna Carvalho, M.D., MPH 2009 Reynolds Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship Dear all: We are indeed moving towards a new paradigm of action, relationships and association. A new politik for society. We are beyond #OccupyWallSt right now. We became the #Occupy Movement. This poetic-political idea of becoming what we are yet to imagine is extremely powerful: it is the Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-17906144735467193292011-10-27T16:07:00.008-04:002011-10-28T12:33:24.811-04:00Occupation Philly: Glossary & Working Groups Not alphabetical. Working Groups as self-described & posted at City Hall 10/26/11 Not in alphabetical order Working Group (WG Another name for a committee. Autonoumously generated. Anyone can start one. Represents only itself. General Assembly (GA) Discussion & decision making body of the whole. Decisions made by G.A. represent Occupy Philadelphia Bottom Liner Those in a GA, through regular Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-13927873736283449822011-10-27T12:28:00.004-04:002011-10-28T12:34:10.493-04:00Violence/ non-Violence Violence begets hierarchy (the biggest thug wins). Organized violence REQUIRES hierarchy. (The War Lord becomes King) Violence and democracy cannot long endure together. Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-37269683625048397082011-10-25T10:48:00.003-04:002011-10-28T12:35:39.246-04:00Letter to a Frustrated OccupierWhat's our mission here? What is this all about? Why aren't there clear statements telling what we're doing? Why is everything all bogged down in "process?" And what is this about, anyway--this "process" stuff!?! The 'mission' is what we decide it is...not a script handed down from above or written ahead of time that we then dutifully follow. That's what all this bothersome 'process' is about... Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-21742088706086195522011-10-24T15:15:00.010-04:002011-11-25T14:47:37.271-05:00Camped at City Hall October 24, 2011 Camped at City Hall, sea birds…      … hover under iron      pilings, stone blocks massive labor’s      hands calloused, nails ragged washed      under water drawn from distant rains      rivers – waiting supper in a row house kitchen      buried now, or lost, or burned -- workers – ashes scattered      built this – the masons, stone-cutters      glaziers, carvers      of Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-24864035975610474012011-10-23T00:25:00.002-04:002011-10-28T12:36:33.299-04:00Let's ackowledge our own vulnurability... This is an email I sent to the Facilitation List. It pertains to the whole community. We have a commitment to transparency & I see no reason to hide our growing pains. I trust we will address and overcome them, &--they may help others. We have--with almost 500 tents, close to or more than 1000 people living on the plaza. Counting those who come and pass through, thousands more. This is a Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-54810239648361228242011-10-20T11:29:00.003-04:002011-10-28T12:37:16.088-04:00New Working Group6:00 PM, Friends Center, 1501 Cherry. First meeting of Occupy World, cross-occupation working group--building strategies and structure to create an international web of occupations. Tentative Agenda! Thursday October 20, 2011 Remember—we have ONE HOUR before GA! Let’s have someone remind us of time…Introductions. Each of us state in single sentence if possible, what we imagine this Working Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-74667549527264109072011-10-19T15:36:00.001-04:002011-10-28T12:37:53.617-04:00Reply to a letter of concern from someone who has left Occupy PhiladelphiaIf you want to know who the people are who are camping, talk to them. Ask them. This is not a protest. This is a deliberative, decision making, community building body. Protests and actions and demands may flow out of those decisions. They will change over time as needs and concerns change--that's why the Occupations can't be pinned down to this or that specific statement. And that's one reasonJacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-61404336270586000672011-10-18T09:48:00.003-04:002011-10-28T12:38:32.219-04:00Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Philadelphia, Occupy the World!When I first posted on this movement, Zuccotti Park had only been occupied for less than a week, main-stream media was pretending it didn't exist. There are now more than 1500 occupations; it's become a global movement impossible for press or politicians to ignore. Here's Huff Post's review, with many links and videos, on Occupation, one month old. Much of the info and the links in my earlier Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-58362381936602127512011-10-16T10:47:00.000-04:002011-10-16T10:47:25.499-04:00Poem Tree pics! Poem Tree Images thanks to Lillian Dunn!Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-35518417482276130782011-10-16T09:08:00.003-04:002011-10-28T12:39:17.619-04:00Occupy Philly: Philly & New York Richard, of OHTARZIE, responded a comment I left. Here’s my reply, highlighting what may be some features specially characteristic of the Philly Occupation. >Richard wrote: What you describe is very different from what I see here and what I hear about from other cities. i am not simply speculating that there are Obamaphiles here. There just are. Nevertheless, what I see and hear is certainly Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-29732639409058233022011-10-15T10:38:00.004-04:002011-10-28T12:39:52.136-04:00Occupy Wall Street A good post on OHTARZIE, acutely observed impressions and measured and thoughtful critique of Occupy Wall Street. I left the following thoughts in a comment. Seeing less of the managerial face up-front here in Philly. This sprang up so fast–tents covering Dillworth Plaza, which is 4x the size of Zuccotti Park–that more truly marginalized peeps have stepped up out of dire need–far too Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-493297742599176182011-10-15T10:05:00.001-04:002011-10-28T12:40:45.154-04:00Occupy Philadelphia: Power doesn't surrender power willingly The GA's go late... 2 really difficult meetings in a row--really long, I mean. I take morning off now--feeling my years. Need to pace myself to recover. The City making-nice like the wolf at the door of the 3 pigs--they want to 'talk.' The GA says, you want to talk, come to the GA! This is called Freedom of Assembly--deal with it! I never thought I'd be in a group this large more militant thanJacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-81990174622231730032011-10-14T08:46:00.002-04:002011-10-28T12:40:14.778-04:00Plans for International OccupationWe would like to see an Occupy Philadelphia Working Group to1)      Begin plans to establish a regular, trans-Occupation WG2)      …to set up communications & Tech infrastructure3)      …to plan for   Regional                        National                        International            Occupation conferences to discuss Meta issues                        … and begin the process of how to Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-91123094390768231532011-10-12T09:54:00.001-04:002011-10-12T09:55:19.832-04:00Broadside Release, Damask Press...From Book One of my Poem to the End of My Days: Chronic Chronos Kairos Broadside, with chapbook sampler to follow. Damask Press Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-81369266898544607892011-10-10T09:51:00.002-04:002011-10-28T12:41:08.282-04:00Occupy Philly: PhotosGood images from LifeisPublic 96 tents last night... more every dayJacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-76964113779272706272011-10-09T12:32:00.004-04:002011-10-28T12:41:39.514-04:00Occupy Wall Street: small changes...http://www.ustream.tv/channel/occupy-philadelphia A couple of us had a chance, pre-dawn conversation with Chief of Police Ramsey Friday morning. This was standing in Front of City Hall--he'd come out to take a look at the Occupation. He was genuinely open--not that kind of 'official friendlyness' that's all about maintaining distance. Told us he'd call the head of Sanatation and ask if they Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-74638215010312706492011-10-09T11:16:00.002-04:002011-10-28T12:43:04.322-04:00Occupy Wall Street: LogWe have LIVESREAM feed now. Day 4? I lose track of time. Home to do laundry. Can sleep out till Wednesday when rain predicted. Need someone to donate an arctic sleeping bag and one-peep tent. My cushion and quilted blankets have been fine, this mild weather. Too busy with Food Station to go on any of the Marches. The Family Area--with children. Do a daily Kid March around City Hall Food Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-79469534344886084102011-10-07T11:34:00.003-04:002011-10-28T12:42:39.669-04:00Occupy Philly: Daily log Journal Thursday, 10/6/2011 Up at 5:15. Pack my shopping cart with cushion for sleeping, sign boards… on Dillworth Plaza at 7 AM. Police—a strong but discreet presence. Not quite invisible, but ‘show of force’ not in the plan. Entrances to City Hall courtyard closed. Glassy towers gleaming in morning sun. Sky absolutely clear. In the 50’s. Weather report: be in the 70’s by afternoon. Waiting Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-2270714410212487992011-10-06T07:04:00.003-04:002011-10-28T12:42:21.313-04:00Occupy Philly--this is the day!6:45 AM Thursday, October 6, 2011 Up working for an hour. Occupation begins little more than 2 hours. Be on site by 8:00 to meet with food Working Group. Ditch my Bowler hat and can-top wrist band and neck bling. Evidently was on TV yesterday—and pics in paper. With press there in force they’ll be looking for identifiable images to label as ‘leaders.’ WE HAVE NO LEADERS… no matter how often you Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-12401011627587915612011-10-04T23:08:00.002-04:002011-10-28T12:44:36.427-04:00OCCUPY PHILLY!!! WE DID IT!!!! 1000 people worked through an agenda, by consensus, and broke a half hour early! Occupation Philadelphia begins Thursday, October 6, 9:00 Philadelphia City Hall! ...report (I hope) tomorrowJacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-43686287500983440042011-10-04T01:49:00.001-04:002011-10-28T12:45:16.491-04:00Occupy Philly... on the verge: Nothing About us Without Us!Robins October 3, Monday, 2011 12 sitting around a table… I'm thinking... oh good. It will be easy, with only a few of us... 5 more come in, and 10… and we move the tables aside and sit in a circle. More come in, until there's between 50 and 60. Hard to count because there were a few who left, then came back, then more came. No. This won't be easy. A long meeting. Second half we began to find Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-77338082040542626762011-10-03T17:57:00.002-04:002011-10-28T12:45:38.230-04:00Cornell West at Occupy Wall Street Cornell West Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-78950956448002279872011-10-02T19:19:00.000-04:002011-10-02T19:19:51.903-04:00 Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-85086326449616632872011-10-02T16:29:00.008-04:002011-10-28T12:46:03.505-04:00Occupy Philly: First Meeting, 9/30/11Occupy Together Field Manuel The first Philly meeting turned into an ad hoc General Assembly with all the tension and underlying threat of disruptive chaos one might expect from a gathering of some 400 people with no time get to know one another, no time to build trust and a sense of a common purpose—even if that purpose might be yet to be discovered. Began with a sobering report from the Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-7444120643205278702011-09-30T00:18:00.001-04:002011-10-28T12:46:36.140-04:00Meeting #1 Occupy Philly I walked to the Wooden Shoe early. Met someone else headed the same place. No one there but one customer(?) and a woman behind the counter. She told us a story, a visit earlier in the week. A cop (she said he seemed embarrassed about what he was doing) ... asked her if maybe they needed any help? Noooo... Maybe you like to tell me something? Noooo ... Poor cop. They send a uniformed cop Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-68445980755857357992011-09-29T01:08:00.001-04:002011-10-28T12:47:01.005-04:00Occupy Philly Planning Meeting: Gather at Wooden Shoe, 704 South Street Walk to 55 N. Broad, Arch Street Methodist Church. Way too big now for Wooden shoe! Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-16778761568443150192011-09-28T14:30:00.006-04:002011-10-28T12:47:30.467-04:00Driving through the Holland Tunnel on the way to Occupy Wall Street For every tile/ a worker’s hand the trowel he held 32 million in the ceiling 2.9 million on the walls set one by one how many did one man lay in an hour/ a day counting them in his sleep beside his wife in a walk-up in Bayonne 14 workers died building that tunnel... it wasn’t named after them Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-19912578123214906092011-09-27T17:00:00.009-04:002011-10-28T12:48:07.376-04:00Posts and Links on Occupy Wall Street Occupy PhiladelphiaBrooklyn Bridge Arrests, from Real News  Occupy Wall Street live feed Cornell West at Liberty Plaza!  Report on Sunday 9/24, NYC Sunday in the Park with Occupy Wall Street  (long) General Assembly & People's Mic without day log Occupy Philadelphia Report on General Assembly Meeting 9/24, and People's Mic (last 3rd of long report) Philosophy & Revolution MORE LINKS Beginning to get Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-77204832158265642092011-09-27T01:11:00.008-04:002011-10-28T12:52:49.572-04:00Sunday in the Park with OccupyWallSt! NY Gen Assembly September 17, 2011. One week and a day since a few hundred people went to Zuccotti Park (formerly, and once again, Liberty Plaza Park ) in lower Manhattan and pitched tents for OccupyWallStNYC. One week and a day, (as of 9:00 EDT, September 26, 2011, and there are now ongoing, or in planning, Occupy movements in: • MIDWEST o Occupy Chicago o Occupy Cleveland o Occupy ColumbusJacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-39391145570550691952011-09-26T17:19:00.001-04:002011-10-28T12:52:05.702-04:00Occupy Philadelphia                     Occupy PhiladelphiaJacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-56410928273384851002011-09-26T16:10:00.006-04:002011-10-28T12:51:34.736-04:00Occupy Wall Street Occupy Movement links HERE I'm writing an account of the day with more specifics, hope to have it up later this afternoon. Meeting: Wooden Shoe Books Thursday, Organization for OccupyPhilly! I did. I spent the day. I came away impressed that this was a transformative event.. but as though it were something that confirmed what i knew... transformative for those who were there, but ... and Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-79090901507017574972011-09-26T14:48:00.014-04:002011-10-28T12:51:03.753-04:00Occupy Wall Street, the General Assembly The General Assembly From my account of Sunday in the Park with OccupyWallSt Let me begin with the Human Mic--the sound that had reminded me of children reciting the pledge of allegiance. It’s not call and response, it’s call & repetition. At some point, fairly early on, not sure when, bullhorns and loudspeakers were banned. The Human Mic was the solution. And what emerged was an action and Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-1705995367805877252011-09-26T14:46:00.004-04:002011-10-28T12:49:52.557-04:00Philosophy & Revolution I left this comment to a thread on Larval Subjects. This thread began with an image from the Occupy Wall Street Protests… yet, curiously, not one of the other comments so far have made reference to this… like the “Main Stream Media”… as though it didn’t exist… was not worth notice or comment. Yet here is an action in progress, itself an emerging ‘assemblage” on the edge of our massive, Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-60936142481509318592011-09-24T02:14:00.047-04:002011-10-28T12:49:23.920-04:00Occupy Wall Street: Links Beginning to get coverage... Two articles in Boston Review The Occupations as our Arab Spring Eyewitness:  American Autumn--our Arab Spring Correcting NYT trashing in The Nation    This is welcome, but she doesn't get the heart of what's happening--that this movement isn't defined by the ideas of individuals in isolation--but in the process of decision making which draws on the creative Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-46736043209245790562011-09-22T21:42:00.003-04:002011-10-28T12:48:54.631-04:00Live feed from Wall Street Cops pen, then mace unarmed women. Make this viral! Live Feed facinating to watch this, the stage of early creative semi-chaos unusually sustained. The convergence of a Troy Davis march around 8:00 led to some interesting confusion & then to the arrest of 6 demonstrators...which in led in turn to a new assembly outside a police station calling for their release. Side bar has many lamenting Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-21932585506789237642011-09-22T09:57:00.002-04:002011-10-04T00:14:01.964-04:00"Local Knowledge," Where Poetry & Philosophy Meet As I read Levi's post on the coming of age of a philosopher of "local knowledge," I thought the work of poets I know and have heard and read: Jenn Osman's The Network, her intimate outsiders-intersection with science; the locality of place itself in the poems of Ryan Eckes, of the experience of place in Frank Sherlock; of CA Conrad's intense polyamorous embrace of everything local and real, out Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-82775467739558418242011-09-21T18:33:00.000-04:002011-09-21T18:33:46.937-04:00Light Rain in South Philly <!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-50169352490425937082011-09-17T13:32:00.002-04:002011-09-17T13:33:47.995-04:00Creative Illness ?I found this in my journal... don't recall whether it was posted--maybe in reply to a comment, but thought I put it up again. From February when I was dealing with asthma, and the had just begun working on Poem to the End of My Days. I've recently completed work on the third volume. I keep thinking about the psychosomatic components. So very complicated--as I don't have to tell you, not a Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-67291809607835279992011-09-16T13:32:00.002-04:002011-09-16T14:10:10.040-04:00Interview, Damask Press Toby Altman interviews the Old Dog for Damask Press, and likes Overriding Genesis. Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-84210132085118749152011-09-05T23:26:00.002-04:002011-09-05T23:31:19.209-04:00Ammiel Alcalay: Neither Wit Nor Gold Ammiel Alcalay: Nither Wit Nor Gold, on The Quarterly Conversation . The kind of review too often reserved only for long works of fiction. I've been thinking, as I've been taking up again my 12 year 'novel' in progress... encouraged by what I find, by how it's turning out, and at the same time, longing to get back to poetry--how much I'd like to tear down that wall that's been artificially Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-70601358800908271182011-08-30T09:59:00.018-04:002011-09-16T13:10:02.289-04:00Interviews    Interviews: Starlight Philadelphia                        Damask PressJacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-65270248767594886292011-08-20T14:46:00.001-04:002011-08-20T14:50:49.758-04:00Starlight Philadelphia Interviews: Jacob Russell & Nicholas Deboer Interviewd by Debrah Morkan: Jacob Russell and Nicholas Deboer Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-14978640925476563612011-08-17T16:04:00.004-04:002011-08-18T08:46:28.138-04:00Kafka's Father On Tales from the Reading Room: Poor Old Kafka: Franz K’s tortured relationship with his father, an affliction Franz was never able to resolve. Only half tongue-in-cheek, I raised a question in comments. A brief exchange followed:  Were you granted the [powers to go back in time and] to transform Kafka’s father into the compassionate parent he craved… knowing Franz would have a pleasurable Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-62640100961214342172011-08-12T12:22:00.002-04:002011-08-12T12:23:31.274-04:00Few things more dangerous ... What will happen when American's illusions are shattered? A question I've been asking myself for some time... picked this up on BlackguardJacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-60051339156091402192011-08-11T00:45:00.004-04:002011-08-11T01:16:06.760-04:00Phillip Levine, Poet LaurietteThe Poet Laurette can do some good work, promoting poetry, so can mostly ignore the boring conventional stuff that got them the job. But have to say, while Levine can be ... more sentimental than I like, and his poetics are conventional... I really like the way he reads his work. No Dreaded Poets Voice... reads like he speaks, and the poems come out that way... so you think, not bad, not bad...Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-23807260988937289072011-08-04T12:07:00.002-04:002011-08-04T12:44:21.256-04:00 One acts either to resist being changed, or out of a desire to bring it about. But one can never know what 'it' will be. Plans, then, are actions designed to resist (not change) but being changed. You do stuff, & if the stuff you do is a poem... Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-31706874350088953102011-07-27T21:03:00.003-04:002011-07-29T15:36:03.201-04:00Death Struggle of the Oligarchs Obama represents the last stand of what used to be the Republican party--the Rockefeller, old money wing--which, since the rise of Western new money, with the ideological support of neocons and cultivation of populist racism and religious social conservatives, have routed the old Republicans and driven them into the camp of the Democratic party where they constitute the heart of the DLC -- but Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-15342173522889692282011-07-26T18:03:00.000-04:002011-07-26T18:03:38.710-04:00Starlight Interview Interview with Ryan EckesJacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-47696416467893377702011-07-23T11:03:00.004-04:002011-07-23T11:24:26.784-04:00Conversation with A Poem Tree I was untangling a ribbon that held a poem to the Poem Tree on Passyunk, feeling a little sad... when she asked me what I thought I was doing. --Why, grooming you, Poem Tree! I said. --But why, she said. & why are you wearing can tabs? And putting can tabs on me. Don't you know that I'm a tree & I dress myself in leaves? --But you are dead, little Poem Tree, and your leaves are brown & Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-73420481238401676372011-07-19T12:39:00.003-04:002011-07-20T12:07:08.755-04:00The Urban Garden We are the gardeners of the world. From The Sanguine Root Native wildflowers in the Sanguine Root vegetable garden, Viola street, East Parkside, Philadelphia. Photo: Sean Salomon, Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-88959946476179491752011-07-19T12:34:00.002-04:002011-08-08T09:52:09.391-04:00Published Fiction Peaceable Kingdom Connotation Press Transport a flash fiction tryptic Pindeldyboz Godzilla's Eye Laurel Review Theology of Anorexia SalmagundiJacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-43528007118577524022011-07-14T19:19:00.005-04:002011-07-16T10:39:32.220-04:00Statement for Poem to the End of My Days This was required for a chapbook submission... they wanted something considerably longer, but for my own work, I'd rather the poetry explain itself. Still... a useful exercise. __Every poet worthy of the title writes but one poem in a lifetime. Not little framed verbal icons to inscribe in the margins of soon to be forgotten books, but a single tottering edifice of found things held Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-54004040174424152122011-07-14T11:50:00.000-04:002011-07-14T11:50:35.723-04:00Gout, day 3 As disabler & instructor, pain doubly instructs--Wisdom... if she still exists, cannot but cripple even as she teaches. Cherish your wounds Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-41886825157272974872011-07-13T10:52:00.001-04:002011-07-13T11:11:43.213-04:00Summer DepressionA wave of summer depression... a thing very different than the late winter variety (It would never occur to me in winter to call it a 'wave') ...which brings to mind again the thought that it isn't something in me, but as much around & over & under -- surroundings taken in & leaking out of this sealed skin-bag I call "my" body... a diffusion of the configuration of Self -- a kind of entropy whereJacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-62423128605038098252011-07-11T11:31:00.000-04:002011-07-11T11:31:13.509-04:00Dan Green does the Alphebet    A lucid appreciation (in all the senses of that word) of Silliman's project-- a take refreshingly outside the skirmish zone of the poetry wars.  Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-19590087040884947822011-07-11T01:25:00.000-04:002011-07-11T01:25:51.277-04:00Goodbye & Goodnight, Cy Twombly Cy TwomblyJacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-51046154771366662822011-07-08T16:41:00.003-04:002011-07-17T12:23:19.816-04:00Obama's Failure: Our New WilsonI think it's not so much that Obama himself is a stealth Republican (though he is by consequences of his actions) as that he has a truly naive belief in politics as usual, in a democratic process by compromise. This is, after all, his greatest skill; if one takes nothing else into consideration, the passage of the health care bill would be an extraordinary achievement--but there is no democracy Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-42232126496766948162011-07-08T09:39:00.000-04:002011-07-08T09:39:32.054-04:00It's ALL propagandaI had to turn off NPR this morning... can't listen to it anymore, no more than the rest of the 'mainstream' news. Their assumption of "no ideology' means they can offer no resistance to assimilation into that of the ruling elite--they 'report' but leave one hanging in space inside the hologram with no way to gain the perspective necessary to form sound judgements. No up or down, no compass--a Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-13455124364856241752011-07-06T18:33:00.002-04:002011-07-19T20:23:45.128-04:00A poem on 10,000 Banana Trees poem by Gil JohnsonJacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-28772964093994017502011-07-05T11:17:00.005-04:002011-07-19T12:58:16.811-04:004th of July, 2011 Went to the fireworks... first time in years. Had to be more than a million people, Parkway jammed from Museum to Love Park.. .& that jammed too. I was there more for the crowd, the holiday scene -- fireworks are nice, but lost the thrill they had in childhood. Went alone. Felt like an island of calm in a tsunami… waves of people breaking over me to no effect. Twice fights broke out nearby. Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-85663953954647188072011-07-03T23:34:00.001-04:002011-07-03T23:38:11.809-04:00 To what are we accountable? An earlier post I've been thinking about... Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-22691310654801639912011-06-27T21:49:00.011-04:002011-08-04T19:28:39.889-04:00Circles within Circles May 5, 2010 I circumambulated the parking lot on Passyunk. Walking around the perimeter. With my spirit cane. Observing. Attending. I had no plan in mind. Was not sure whether I would walk the circle once or more than once. I noticed so much the first time, so many details… things… that I was Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-40283901490143586962011-06-24T17:55:00.001-04:002011-06-25T01:38:50.377-04:00Homo homini lupus ... but to the rest of creation, a lost barking dog Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-28686910852373947422011-06-24T13:24:00.001-04:002011-06-24T13:25:57.599-04:00The real sexual perversion of our culture... In this article on rape in the holocaust, what I found most profoundly disturbing, or most immediately so, as it has to do, not with the past, but with the present, with us, we who participate in the cleansing and altering of cultural memory, was the reaction of the male historians-- in diminishing the significance--under the guise of scholarly duty ("where is the evidence?")--so shockingly, Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com0