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Pressing Ahead: Selecting Stones at Year 2
The scientific editors of Selecting Stones are all exhausted as of late. We’ve been putting in long hours as wage-laborers, and well, y’all know how that goes! So, this year on May 1, we must confess that we simply don’t have the energy at the moment to make as grandiose of a statement as we […]
Woody Guthrie Today, and Woody Guthrie the Communist
July 15, 2012
by L. W. Denton Yesterday marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of legendary folk musician Woody Guthrie in Okemah, Oklahoma. Guthrie has long been a controversial figure in Oklahoma and elsewhere for the simple reason that he was a communist. Woody Guthrie is most famous for two things: First, that he wrote the song […]
Recognition for the Work of the Labor Policy Institute of Oklahoma
June 27, 2012
A new upstart organization called the Labor Policy Institute of Oklahoma (LPI-OK) has seen some recent successes with a new video they’ve produced entitled “The Main Street Moment: The Struggle in the Heartland”. As Selecting Stones itself originated out of Oklahoma, we saw it necessary to highlight the progress of another Oklahoma-based organization pursuing the […]
A Lesson from the Past for Occupy – Is it too late?
June 21, 2012
by Lupus With the tremendous flop of Occupy’s promised May Day General Strike, and the rancorous denunciations by libertarian Occupiers of the labor-backed “99% Spring” non-violence trainings over the last couple of months, even the most ardent Occupiers are beginning to admit they need a change of strategy, calling for a new “meme” to continue […]
The Struggle Must Continue On: Selecting Stones at Year 1
May 1, 2012
by Frank W. Strauch and Bruno Fournier For over a year now, Selecting Stones has been your source for ruthless scientific criticism of everything existing. Exactly one year ago, on this fine First of May, Selecting Stones announced to the world what its duties would be. Things have changed a bit since then, but much remains […]
The Upper-Middle-Class character of Occupy Wall Street, an update
October 3, 2011
Occupy Wall Street remains overwhelmingly a movement representing the upper-middle-class. It is no mere coincidence that the free food handed out to the protesters is organic and vegan, and, although all sorts of people strive to eat healthy, in our day and age, the fetish of the organic tomato is primarily the reserve of the […]
May 1, 2013
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