2022-08-08
*planted: 08/08/2022last tended: 08/08/2022
- I am sad that Thatcherism is a thing.
- Commons
- Watching: This Land is Our Land
- Listening: The Value of a Whale with Adrienne Buller
- Reflecting that in 1976 The Lucas Plan was put together by factory workers to counter proposed job cuts. It was based on notions of socially useful production and included things like heat pumps, wind turbines, energy efficient houses. In 1976!
- I watched The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution and The Weather Underground documentaries. Almost hard to comprehend what a powder keg the 60s and 70s were in America. The cold-blooded murder of Fred Hampton is truly shocking… words fail.
- Also germane to think how the artwork of Emory Douglas and The Black Panther paper got the party to places where they might not otherwise have reached.
1. Elsewhere
1.1. In my garden
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