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apathy, condemnation, empire, joy, sharon-welch, social-justice
Justice: Condemnation versus joy
06.27.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on Justice: Condemnation versus joy

I picked up a copy of Sharon Welch’s After Empire: The Art and Ethos of Enduring Peace at GA, and I’m slowly working my way through it. From page five: What I know in my soul I learned from the lives of my mother and father: that it is possible to work for justice without […]
catering-class, empire, joe-bageant, liberation-theology, redneck
Redneck liberation theology
06.16.07 | Permalink | 5 Comments

I promised Joe Bageant a while back that I’d have a shot at his post “Redneck Liberation Theology.” He was kind enough last week to send me a copy of his new book Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America’s Class War. I just finished it, and I’ll post more about it shortly. But for […]
america, consumerism, empire, freeocracy, global-corporate-feudalism, wealth-bondage
A voice crying in the wilderness
02.19.06 | Permalink | 17 Comments

Joe Bageant, hands down, writes the best description of life under our global corporate feudalism, empire, wealth bondage, what have you, that I’ve yet to read—“Welcome to Middle-Class Lockdown.” I am inspired, and disturbed. This is required reading. Go read it. And then read it again. And then print it out and give it to […]

Justice: Condemnation versus joy