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PAUL E NELSON

Audio Interview Archive Taking Shape

Thanks to a grant from 4Culture, the archive of interviews I have done over the years is being organized. Summaries of past interviews, going back to December 1990, are going up weekly here: https://splab.org/listen/ The non-profit organization I founded in December...

Chronicling Left Egalitarianism

The tab for a certain online newspaper article has been open on my browser since about April 15, when it was published. I moved it over from #3 to #36 today (yep, 36 tabs open right now) and have not closed it since. The article hits a nerve with me, starting with the...

Neoliberalism = the New Religion

God is dead but Satan abhors a vacuum. And religion/spirituality in North America has been replaced with neoliberalism. I find this out during the current U.S. Presidential campaign when I engage (mostly on Facebook) friends who support the candidacy of Hillary Rodham...

Neoliberalism

Continuing now with the quote from the last post that I said was leading to another post, this one about Neoliberalism. The quote was: I don’t think we’d be discussing how neoliberalism hijacked democracy if it weren’t for Hilary vs. Bernie. – Linda Russo on...

Bernie Sanders or dxʷshudičup

It is a quintessentially Seattle story, given that indigenous people in this city have a higher profile than in most U.S. (lower 48) towns. Maybe being named after a great Chief also has something to do with it, but given that my ex-, Meredith, found this on Instgram...