Guess which country doesn’t have universal health care?
— Barbara Lee (@BLeeForCongress) June 30, 2020
We need Medicare for All. pic.twitter.com/rezDdxheox
Using Technology to Deepen Democracy, Using Democracy to Ensure Technology Benefits Us All
Tuesday, June 30, 2020
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
Monday, June 29, 2020
Teaching
Friday, June 26, 2020
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
We understand that a beautiful, creative, strong, enlightened and diverse town like Oakland must seem like hell to you, so please feel free to never come here. https://t.co/EYeHFbbkOQ
— Rep. Barbara Lee (@RepBarbaraLee) June 26, 2020
Thursday, June 25, 2020
Teaching
Friday, June 19, 2020
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
Today is #Juneteenth. As we celebrate and honor Black freedom, we must always remember the painful and dangerous legacy that white supremacy has on our country. We have a long way to go to achieve true freedom, but we must never stop fighting for justice.
— Barbara Lee (@BLeeForCongress) June 19, 2020
Tuesday, June 16, 2020
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
It’s past time to cut our Pentagon budget and put that money toward anti-poverty programs.
— Barbara Lee (@BLeeForCongress) June 16, 2020
Monday, June 15, 2020
Rona Is Real, Re-Open With Care...
Saturday, June 13, 2020
Teaching
Wednesday, June 10, 2020
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
Police accountability starts with passing the Justice in Policing Act which includes:
— Barbara Lee (@BLeeForCongress) June 10, 2020
- Banning on chokeholds and no-knock warrants
- Demilitarizing our police
- Establishing a police misconduct database
- Collecting data on use of force
- Making lynching a federal hate crime
Teaching
Monday, June 08, 2020
Trumpproval
[E]very high-quality national poll with proper education weighting had Joe Biden leading Donald Trump two months ago by an average of 6.2%. And nearly every one of them have him leading by more today, by an average of 10.2%... Biden’s lead is not only larger than Hillary Clinton’s in 2016, “it’s more secure.”Pointing out this sort of thing isn't about counting chickens before they hatch (tho' Oscar Wilde insisted that that's the only sensible time to count chickens, since they move around so much after they hatch), this is, for me at least, about resisting despair and trying to be sensible. It is awfully encouraging to think that the Trump epoch might soon really end. It is also encouraging to think the present righteous uprisings against white supremacy and police violence are instilling well the lesson that it isn't enough to vote for Democrats like Biden but necessary to push even the best Democrats (of whom Biden is far from one) from across the democratic left where we are to ensure they do what we elect them to do after the election is done.
Sunday, June 07, 2020
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
We have a right to peacefully protest without teargas, rubber bullets, and excessive force. I condemn the spike in violence toward peaceful protesters who are marching for justice. It needs to stop.
— Barbara Lee (@BLeeForCongress) June 7, 2020
Thursday, June 04, 2020
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
Trump using military force to try to stop peaceful dissent is a threat to our democracy. Period. https://t.co/E4qX0pTaU5
— Barbara Lee (@BLeeForCongress) June 4, 2020
Tuesday, June 02, 2020
Syllabus for My Upcoming Summer Intensive
Course Blog: aclashoffuturisms.blogspot.com
Instructor: Dale Carrico dcarrico@sfai.edu; ndaleca@gmail.com
Schedule of Meetings (Subject to Change, Check Online Version for Updates)
Ted Goertzel, "Methods and Approaches of Future Studies"
Roland Barthes, from Mythologies, "The Nautilus and the Drunken Boat," “Jet-Man," "Plastic" (for the relevant passages scroll to pp. 65-67, 88-90, 97-99.)
Audrey Watters: The Best Way to Predict the Future Is To Issue A Press Release
Nathan Pensky: Ray Kurzweil Is Wrong
Jaron Lanier: The First Church of Robotics
Emily Drabinski, Ideologies of Boring Things: The Internet and Infrastructures of Race
Week Three: Ecology
John Bellamy Foster, Four Laws of Ecology and Four Anti-Ecological Laws of Capitalism
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Race And/As Technology
Critical Arts Ensemble, Eugenics: The Second Wave
Alison Kafer, Imagined Futures from Feminist, Queer, Crip
Valentine de Saint-Point, Futurist Manifesto of Lust
Luigi Russolo, The Art of Noises
Karen Pinkus, Futurism: Proto Punk
Tananarive Due, Afrofuturism: Dreams to Banish Nightmares
Nnedi Okorafor, The Magical Negro (this one page story is the first in Okorafor's wonderful collection Kabu Kabu, and the easiest way to read it free is just to preview the book at Amazon, and scroll to the story)
Nnedi Okorafor: On Stephen King's Super-Duper Magical Negroes
Monday, June 01, 2020
Vote Out Hate
His own words are all you need to hear. That's been true for years by now, but there it is. Vote against the Nazis or you are one yourself. That's where we are.
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
The first Pride was a riot.
— Barbara Lee (@BLeeForCongress) June 1, 2020
As we begin Pride month, let’s not forget that Pride started with transgender women of color: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera, who led the initial Stonewall riots. We must remember that people of color are at the forefront of every social movement. pic.twitter.com/iCunFHvxAc