by Dave Marsh and Danny Alexander You might wonder, for good reason, why we are writing about Springsteen’s Wrecking Ball five months after its release. Some of the reasons have been personal. But there are better reasons why we’re speaking up now, and speaking in the way that we are. Part of it is that Read more...
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To Set Our Souls Free: A different view of Bruce Springsteen’s Wrecking Ball
Friday, August 10th, 2012Tags: Bruce Springsteen, Danny Alexander, Dave Marsh, Death to My Hometown, Easy Money, Jack of All Trades, Land of Hope and Dreams, music and politics, Rock & Rap Confidential, Rocky Ground, Shackled and Drawn, This Depression, We Are Alive, We Take Care of Our Own, Wrecking Ball, Wrecking Ball song, You Got It
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Don’t Just Deplore Bullying — Fight It!
Thursday, October 21st, 2010Author/attorney/child-and-anti-abuse advocate Andrew Vachss’ latest, the graphic novel (and a half) HEART TRANSPLANT, hit the stores this week. Read it! I can’t do better in pushing you to do that, than to repeat the quote I gave the publisher: “Heart Transplant is a necessity in a country that sometimes seems to be run by bullies Read more...
Tags: Bullying, Frank Caruso, Heart Attack graphic novel, It Gets Better, Kick Out the Jams, Land of Hope and Dreams, Protect.org, SiriusXM, Zak Mucha
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Happy Labor Day
Saturday, September 4th, 2010Of course, in most of the rest of the world (more than 80 countries–September is used by about six), Labor Day isn’t in September. It’s on May 1. Marginalized in Wikipedia as “International Workers Day,” the real labor day’s date was chosen of the 1886 Haymarket Massacre, which happened in Chicago. The “massacre” was of Read more...
Tags: contemporary labor facts, Institute of Southern Studies, Labor Day history, Land of Hope and Dreams
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