Anti-Capitalist Meetup: Trotsky's Continuing Relevance by Isabelle Hayes

LeGauchiste recently wrote about Marx's concept of the necessity of the connection between the worker and the work, the concept of one's life-activity having value and being natural to the healthy human; that capitalism has severed that connection, creating a host of ills for the ordinary person.

A person's free, conscious activity is what differentiates man's species (if I understood Marx correctly), from the animals and without which the laborer is alienated from his/her work.

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Campus "cop" kills naked, unarmed 18 year old freshman.

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Is there any training at all before a cop is given a gun?

October 6, 2012. The University of South Alabama was the scene of yet another example of cowardly American police work. Gilbert Thomas Collar, 18, was shot and killed by an armed campus security guard after knocking on the police station window, and allegedly rushing at the guard. Collar, 18, was a freshman who was 5'7" and weighed approximately 135 lbs. At this time, it is not known if Collar was drunk. What is known is that an armed campus policeman shot and killed a naked, unarmed 18 year old student.

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Food OpenThread

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Well, I just got done cooking dinner - taco night for me - and so I thought of a couple interesting questions:

What is your favorite meal - and by meal, I mean the whole thing, not just the entree, but sides, appetizers if there are any involved, and of course dessert.

Also, what is your favorite type of food? (i.e. Mexican, Italian, Southern, Greek, American, etc....)

And how goes it with y'all?

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Party On The Square- A Night At The Pub

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Tonight at the Party we're going to a place that only exists in my memories now, but I spent many happy hours perched on a bar stool there. Some of the happiest times were every other Saturday night when we had what we called "Open Mic." It wasn't a traditional open mic, there was no sign up sheet or three song limit (unless you sucked).

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Rare event: Transwoman wins battle with insurance on carrier

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Ida Hammer, 34, is originally from Utah and now lives in the borough of Queens, New York City. Raised a Mormon, Ida is a writer and an activist. She moved to NYC four years ago and immediately began hormone treatment and living as a woman.

Among the places she publishes her writing is The Vegan Ideal. She also has published in On the Issues magazine. Trans Violence Is Violence against Women is from last December. She organizes Trans Women's Anti-Violence Project.

Ida has won an enormously important battle with her insurance carrier.

Ida approached her insurance company, MVP Health Care, in July, 2011 about having her genital realignment surgery covered. Of course, MVP declined...twice.

My insurance company denied my claim on the grounds that it was ‘cosmetic’ surgery. (But) my doctors determined that the surgery was necessary, and the insurance company was second-guessing my doctors.

--Ida Hammer

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News from Around the Globe, October 5, 2012 (expanded edition)

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News from Around the Globe, October 5, 2012 (expanded edition)

The following is an expanded edition of current news stories from around the world.

 

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Lebanon ….Syrian Rebels capture an air defense site near Damascus.

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2012/Oct-05/190259-syrian-r...

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