The only constant is change...

The only constant is change... http://iamawobbly.multiply.com/ Nothing happening? Only YOU can make it happen. <A href="http://www.wunderground.com/global/stations/94610.html?bannertypeclick=gizmotimetempbig"> <IMG height=40 alt="Click for Perth, Western Australia Forecast" src="http://banners.wunderground.com/weathersticker/gizmotimetempbig/language/www/global/stations/94610.gif" width=467 border=0></A>  <DIV style="VISIBILITY: visible; MARGIN-LEFT: auto; WIDTH: 450px; MARGIN-RIGHT: auto; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><embed style='VISIBILITY: visible; WIDTH: 435px; HEIGHT: 270px' name='mp3player' pluginspage='http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer' src='http://www.musicplaylist.us/mc/mp3player-othersite.swf?config=http://www.musicplaylist.us/mc/config/config_black.xml&mywidth=435&myheight=270&playlist_url=http://www.musicplaylist.us/loadplaylist.php?playlist=32175245' width='435' height='270' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowscriptaccess='never' menu='false' quality='high' wmode='transparent' border='0'/'> <A href="http://www.musicplaylist.us/"><IMG src="http://www.musicplaylist.us/mc/images/create_black.jpg" border=0></A><A href="http://www.musicplaylist.us/standalone/32175245" target=_blank><IMG src="http://www.musicplaylist.us/mc/images/launch_black.jpg" border=0></A><A href="http://www.musicplaylist.us/download/32175245"><IMG src="http://www.musicplaylist.us/mc/images/get_black.jpg" border=0></A> </DIV>  Fri, 4 Jul 2008 06:58:11 -0000 Fri, 4 Jul 2008 04:01:47 -0000 The only constant is change... http://images.iamawobbly.multiply.com/logo http://iamawobbly.multiply.com 100 100 C.W. Stoneking - Ragged And Dirty This is my main blues man in Australia. C.W. Stoneking is the son of American parents who were teachers in the country up in the Northern Territory. I got to hear him play over in Fremantle at a small venue late last year. C.W. is a gas, gas, gas.....Check him out. He does country blues with a lot of N'Arlins rhythms thrown in here and there. Plays banjo http://iamawobbly.multiply.com/video/item/57/C.W._Stoneking_-_Ragged_And_Dirty Fri, 4 Jul 2008 04:01:47 -0000 Americans have the right of revolution inscribed in their 'Declaration of Independence"   From "The Declaration of Indepence" signed July 4th, 1776 in the then, American Colonies of Great Britain....:   "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. "   Obviously, this is a part of American history which will not be emphasised on "Independence Day".  For the abolition of wage-slavery, Mike B)   http://iamawobbly.multiply.com/journal/item/89/Americans_have_the_right_of_revolution_inscribed_in_their_Declaration_of_Independence_ Fri, 4 Jul 2008 03:12:29 -0000 Steven Shorter / Paul Jones "Privilege" (1967) From Peter Watkins's 1967 film "Privilege," Watkins's subtly satirical take on Beatlemania and a vision of a totalitarian future in which the Church & State use pop icons to induce conformity in the public. In this clip, official govt. pop icon Steven Shorter performs a newly Christianized version of a song seen earlier in the movie, and attempts a laying on of hands to cure the infirm... http://iamawobbly.multiply.com/video/item/56/Steven_Shorter_Paul_Jones_Privilege_1967 Tue, 1 Jul 2008 23:30:18 -0000 Privilege (1967) [Privilege...] is probably the most extraordinary film you will ever see. Starring Paul Jones and Jean Shrimpton. Watch full length streaming movies at <a href="http://filmschatten.blogspot.com" target="_blank" title="http://filmschatten.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">http://filmschatten.blogspot.com</a> This movie is not available on dvd. Netflix indicates it will offer Privilege next month. http://iamawobbly.multiply.com/video/item/55/Privilege_1967 Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:22:03 -0000 Social-darwinism is on the rise amongst the politically disaffected... In 1873, a wise Karl Marx wrote a parody -- a reductio ad absurdum -- of the anarchist arguments and added (my emphasis): "It cannot be denied that if the apostles of political indifferentism were to express themselves with such clarity, the working class would make short shrift of them and would resent being insulted by these doctrinaire bourgeois and displaced gentlemen, who are so stupid or so naive as to attempt to deny to the working class *any real means* of struggle. ***For all arms with which to fight must be drawn from society as it is*** and the fatal conditions of this struggle have the misfortune of not being easily adapted to the idealistic fantasies which these doctors in social science have exalted as divinities, under the names of Freedom, Autonomy, Anarchy." <a href="http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1873/01/indifferentism.htm" target="_blank">http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1873/01/indifferentism.htm</a> <a href="http://iamawobbly.multiply.com/photos/hi-res/upload/SGbFLwoKCDQAAEy79ao1"></a>I know that this flies in the face of most 'anarchist' thought.  Many self-described anarchists in the USA see non-voting as a measure of how hip peopl... http://iamawobbly.multiply.com/journal/item/88/Social-darwinism_is_on_the_rise_amongst_the_politically_disaffected... Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:16:08 -0000 George Carlin on Death - RIP This might give us a bit of insight on how to treat his death.Please watch this video too: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaAgKEPONw0" target="_blank" title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaAgKEPONw0" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaAgKE...</a> http://iamawobbly.multiply.com/video/item/54/George_Carlin_on_Death_-_RIP Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:12:31 -0000 Reading Marx’s Capital with David Harvey Have patience. You'll be http://iamawobbly.multiply.com/links/item/22 Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:23:45 -0000 Do humans have instincts? <a href="http://iamawobbly.multiply.com/photos/hi-res/upload/SF6SDAoKCDQAAGWoi141"><img class="alignright" src="http://images.iamawobbly.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SF6SDAoKCDQAAGWoi141/shaman-cave.jpg?et=T6NBxgHV48p7gNb2BtEVxA&nmid=0" border="0"></a>Do we have inborn, genetic instincts or is everything about us socially constructed?  I mean, do we learn everything after birth or are we genetically endowed with instincts? I can think of three things in humans which are instincts: 1.  The survival instinct is something we have in common with all animals.  However, we also have reason i.e. the ability to put learning together to create the ability to make e.g.: judgements, bridges and social systems.  Reason is historically tempered thus, at one moment in history, humans can override their survival instinct and go to war for say the glory of a king or a god and at another moment, with historical hindsight, they can see that such acts were absurd.  Think of how future generations may view our relative complacence about the number of nuclear weapons existing in the world today or our continued insistence on burning fossil fuels for energy.  Think about how absurd chattel slavery se... http://iamawobbly.multiply.com/journal/item/87/Do_humans_have_instincts Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:01:02 -0000 Join the IWW! Time to organize folks! http://iamawobbly.multiply.com/video/item/53/Join_the_IWW Sat, 21 Jun 2008 04:50:58 -0000 Patti Smith - Horses Patti Smith singing Horses. See <a href="http://www.marts100.com" target="_blank" title="http://www.marts100.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.marts100.com</a> for more. http://iamawobbly.multiply.com/video/item/52/Patti_Smith_-_Horses Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:58:56 -0000 Are gas prices high or are your wages insufficient? <a href="http://iamawobbly.multiply.com/photos/hi-res/upload/SFWsUgoKCDQAACsplbM1"><img class="alignmiddleb" src="http://images.iamawobbly.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SFWsUgoKCDQAACsplbM1/Inflation_adjusted_gasoline_price.jpg?et=sVb08%2C0m66nUkucLHDbRPg&nmid=0" border="0"></a>   <a href="http://iamawobbly.multiply.com/photos/hi-res/upload/SFWr2woKCDQAACmDgOQ1"><img class="alignmiddleb" src="http://images.iamawobbly.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SFWr2woKCDQAACmDgOQ1/flag_poster.jpg?et=Ns0KdjkfebrBrq5lqfi%2Buw&nmid=0" border="0"></a> <a href="http://iamawobbly.multiply.com/photos/hi-res/upload/SFS1ngoKCDQAACmErC41"></a> Click on this chart above, if you can't read it very well.  I couldn't. <img src="http://images.multiply.com/common/smiles/confused.png">     Now, from the looking at this chart, one could conclude that we aren't paying anymore at the pump than we were in early 20th Century.  Maybe what's going on is that real wages have more or less stagnated.  I may have run this by you before, but check it out, the average U.S. hourly wage deflated by the consumer price index.<pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt; "> </pre><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt; "><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt; "></pre>----</pre><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt; "> </pre><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt; ">Year average dollars per hour of work</pre><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt; "> </pre><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt; ">1964 17.07</pre><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt; ">1965 17.44</pre><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt; ">1966 17.61</pre><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt; ">1967 17.88</pre><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt; ">1968 18.16</pre><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt; ">1969 18.32</pre><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt; ">1970 18.33</pre><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt; ">1971 18.72</pre><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt; ">1972 19.51</pre><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt; ">1973 19.48</pre><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt; ">1974 18.82</pre><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt; ">1975 18.39</pre><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt; ">1976 18.61</pre><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt; ">1977 18.78</pre><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt; ">1978 18.85</pre><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt; ">1979 18.29</pre><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt; ">1980 17.39</pre><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt; ">1981 17.11</pre><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt; ">1982 17.05</pre><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt; ">1983 17.23</pre><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt; ">1984 17.09</pre><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt; ">1985 16.99</pre><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt; ">1986 17.02</pre><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt; ">1987 16.83</pre><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt; ">1988 16.69</pre><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt; ">1989 16.55</pre><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt; ">1990 16.33</pre><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt; ">1991 16.15</pre><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt; ">1992 16.07</pre><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt; ">1993 16.00</pre><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt; ">1994 16.00</pre><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt; ">1995 15.99</pre><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt; ">1996 16.06</pre><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt; ">1997 16.30</pre><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt; ">1998 16.69</pre><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt; ">1999 16.94</pre><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt; ">2000 17.02</pre><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt; ">2001 17.19</pre><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt; ">2002 17.40</pre><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt; ">2003 17.48</pre><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt; ">2004 17.38</pre><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt; ">2005 17.28</pre><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt; ">2006 17.38</pre><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt; ">2007 17.57</pre><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt; "> </pre><pre style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt; ">Again, it should be remembered that the productivit... http://iamawobbly.multiply.com/journal/item/86/Are_gas_prices_high_or_are_your_wages_insufficient Sun, 15 Jun 2008 06:42:11 -0000 Lest we foget, Bush did not win the 2000 election.... <a href="http://iamawobbly.multiply.com/photos/hi-res/upload/SE86dAoKCDQAAEmLB7M1"><img class="alignleft" src="http://images.iamawobbly.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SE86dAoKCDQAAEmLB7M1/023_25.JPG?et=YwVotyiWaHQchNNSZQO7%2Bw&nmid=0" border="0"></a>   That's right.  Bush lost that election; but went on to become President of the USA in the minds of most voters and of the world at large.  How could it be? Well, the Ministry of Truth has something to do with this.  Mike B) *********************************************************************************************************** Since about that time, war had been literally continuous, though strictly speaking it had not always been the same war. For several months during his childhood there had been confused street fighting in London itself, some of which he remembered vividly. But to trace out the history of the whole period, to say who was fighting whom at any given moment, would have been utterly impossible, since no written record, and no spoken word, ever made mention of any other alignment than the existing one. At this moment, for example, in 1984 (if it was 1984), Oceania was at war with Eurasia and in alliance with Eastasia. In no public or private ut... http://iamawobbly.multiply.com/journal/item/85/Lest_we_foget_Bush_did_not_win_the_2000_election.... Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:38:11 -0000 Fight Global Warming: Go Vegetarian... <img class="alignleft" src="http://images.iamawobbly.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SE01rQoKCDQAAG19l-M1/pigs1.jpg?et=qnSqfvKGZleW2urauq%2Cw0Q&nmid=0" border="0">There are more than six billion people on Earth today.  I'd like to see that total reduced through family planning to around one billion.  Be that as it may, most of this six billion and growing population would prefer to eat lots more meat than they do at present.  People in the industrialised countries already eat tonnes of meat and the figures for worldwide meat consumption grow by the day.  Think about it: one cow needs seven acres of land to feed on.  That seven acres could be used in other ways, like producing more plant food or allowing it to remain wild with say, rainforest.  Plants actually take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and put oxygen in.  Plants are the lungs of the world.  That's why we don't want to be cutting down the rainforests.  But of course, there are the capitalists who own things like beef and land and need to cut rain forests down to provide pasture land for use in animal husbandry so that th... http://iamawobbly.multiply.com/journal/item/84/Fight_Global_Warming_Go_Vegetarian... Mon, 9 Jun 2008 13:53:06 -0000 Shine a Light Haw! Bill Clinton handshaking the Stones. Hillary is there too. Cut to Bill and Hillary holding hands as they walk across the stage. It's a back shot, low, beagle high angle. Scorsese doing the Stones! Wow. He did the blues. He did Dylan and now the Stones. The man knows his music; I mean, on top of being the best film director alive. And this time, it's a concert at a relatively small venue of the Beacon Theatre, as the boys play in New Yawk City for a Clinton charity. The band starts with "Jumpin' Jack Flash' and baby, it's a gas, gas, gas. Mick moves like he's half his age. Probably has something to do with running six miles a day. Keith is a bit slow and wiry, cracking a sly smile. Old Charlie's good, as usual and Ronnie slides on his guitar like a coke bottle down a ten mile incline. The band looks like it has weathered many a 'crossfire hurricane'--you can see it in their now craggy faces, especially when Scorsese directs a cut to clips of those smooth, inn... http://iamawobbly.multiply.com/reviews/item/2 Sun, 8 Jun 2008 23:29:11 -0000 Bo Diddley - Hey, Bo Diddley and Bo Diddley Bo Diddley... 1966, The Big TNT Show movie, fantastic and iconic guitar hero, with the marvellous Norma-Jean Wofford, aka "The Duchess", on the second square guitar, the amazing Bo-ettes, Lilly "Bee Bee" Jamieson and Gloria Morgan.Ahhhh the Sixties... http://iamawobbly.multiply.com/video/item/51/Bo_Diddley_-_Hey_Bo_Diddley_and_Bo_Diddley Sat, 7 Jun 2008 23:00:07 -0000 American Troops Going Insane--www.freedomfighterradio.net Our sadism is showing. <a href="http://freedomfighterradio.net/" target="_blank" title="http://freedomfighterradio.net/" rel="nofollow">http://freedomfighterradio.net/</a>Here is the address Neocon who says Bush is the greatest President in 100 years,John Benko a neocon supports these soldiers actions want his address? here it is 28 Fort Evans Rd NE, Leesburg, VA 20176 ... Whats not being reportedSometimes the truth is horrible.The video contains disturbing scenes of American troops sadistically taunting Iraqi children, randomly throwing grenades at sheep herders and the infamous puppy toss with David Motari.Juxtaposed against a hollow and hypocritical Presidential address this is mandatory watching for every American citizen.George Bush is a war criminal and unfortunately so are some of his troops.George Bush belongs in the HagueWho said these quotes below? Read and see who does it sound like someone you know?"All Patriotic Citizens must support our troops.""I can invade any country I want.""An evil exists that threatens every man, woman, and child of this great nation. We must take steps to ... http://iamawobbly.multiply.com/video/item/50/American_Troops_Going_Insane--www.freedomfighterradio.net Tue, 3 Jun 2008 23:37:24 -0000 On feeling powerless and the fact that there is power in the union.... <h2><img class="alignright" src="http://images.iamawobbly.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SD4NUAoKCDQAAH-G-dA1/obu.gif?et=uzwnC6xwlkqASbv8koKufw&nmid=0" border="0">The thing is that if you're powerless, your mental abilities tend to fail you.  Give you power and "Voila!", an increase in IQ.  Now you know the secret to higher mental powers lies in organisation in the IWW. The power is yours to have. For <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O93YpTYCWRk">there is power in the union!</a>  To stay an isolated individual is to remain a subaltern for the rest of your life.  I'd be more afraid of that than the possibility that if you stand up for yourself in union with others of your class that you MIGHT get beaten back by the authorities.  </h2> <h2> </h2> <h2>Mike B)</h2>   *********************************************************************************************************** <h2> Feeling powerless is no fun. A lack of control can make the difference between contented and unhappy employees. But new research shows that a lack of power doesn't just make people feel disgruntled. It has a more fundamental effect on their mental skills. In a series of experiments, Pamela Smith from Radb... http://iamawobbly.multiply.com/journal/item/83/On_feeling_powerless_and_the_fact_that_there_is_power_in_the_union.... Thu, 29 May 2008 01:55:26 -0000 Utah Phillips ....farewell fellow worker <a href="http://iamawobbly.multiply.com/photos/hi-res/upload/SDkVXAoKCDQAAAvzQBQ1"><img class="alignmiddleb" src="http://images.iamawobbly.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SDkVXAoKCDQAAAvzQBQ1/up_color.jpg?et=ZvS%2B0qqA7tvgh62UpCdx2w&nmid=0" border="0"></a> My love's a cantina where I drink with my friends; I've called her Dolores and sometimes Cheyenne; I followed her begging all over the West; My love is a headlight on the midnight express. My love is Montana and the high Douglas fir, Many long summers I've labored for her. My love is the wind-rows of dry Autumn corn That grew on the land where my children were born. My love is the life that a boomer will lead, You have bought her with lies and chained her with greed; My love is a dreamer, I follow the dream; You say she's a beggar, I say she's a queen. Final chorus: Someday she'll be mine, Someday she'll be mine, I've won all her treasures so simple and fine, I know someday she'll be mine. Music can be found at: <a href="http://www.utahphillips.org/songbook/shellneverbemine.html">http://www.utahphillips.org/songbook/shellneverbemine.html</a> Copyright ©1973, 2000 Bruce Phillips (aka Utah Phillips)     Saturday, May 24, 2008   Utah Caught the Westbound Last Night (May 24, 2008 <pre>Utah Phillips May 15, 1935 - May 24, 2008 - Your Spirit Lives On in All ... http://iamawobbly.multiply.com/journal/item/82/Utah_Phillips_....farewell_fellow_worker Sun, 25 May 2008 07:31:39 -0000 Utah Phillips, Mark Ross and Butte Montana Hobo storyteller Utah Phillips talks about how he and Mark Ross, from New York City, came to Butte, Montana. Utah died this week. I remember Utah as big barrel of a bearded man, ready to sing at the drop of a hat. He attended the IWW Assembly in San Franciso back in 1990 and and the Wobbly Doxology to kick things off...."Praise boss for chunks of overtime...." And then, we all sang "Dump the bosses off your back." Judi Bari was there, alive amongst us then. Farewell fellow http://iamawobbly.multiply.com/video/item/49/Utah_Phillips_Mark_Ross_and_Butte_Montana Sun, 25 May 2008 06:55:09 -0000 Climate change? What climate change.... <a href="http://iamawobbly.multiply.com/photos/hi-res/upload/SDX31goKCDQAAGPapbc1"><img class="alignmiddleb" src="http://images.iamawobbly.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SDX31goKCDQAAGPapbc1/climate%20change.jpg?et=7YEtaEdRWa0JgX9Hj8RW5g&nmid=0" border="0"></img></a>Many of us suffer from delusions of immediacy.  If we get a cold day in summer, we think, "What global warming?" For climate change skeptics, the overwhelming pile of scientific evidence and consensus amongst climatologists, doesn't matter as much as their own personal opinions and observations.  This is part of the phenomenon which is known as 'cognitive dissonance'.  <a href="http://changingminds.org/explanations/theories/cognitive_dissonance.htm">Cognitive dissonance</a> is also at work amongst people who refuse to see how the capitalist system actually operates to underdmine their lives. The following is from a program, I listened to this past weekend on ABC Radio National.  It's a rational explantion of what is going on with climate change and its skeptics.  There is an audio version you can get to via this link: <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/rn/ockhamsrazor/stories/2008/2249809.htm#transcript">http://www.abc.net.au/rn/ockhamsrazor/stories/2008/2249809.htm#transcript</a> Mike B) *************** This transcript was typed from a recording of the program. The ABC cannot guarantee its complete accuracy because of the possibility ... http://iamawobbly.multiply.com/journal/item/81/Climate_change_What_climate_change.... Thu, 22 May 2008 22:50:19 -0000 An intelligent analysis about what's really going on in Iraq... <IMG class=alignright src="http://images.iamawobbly.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SDHzgwoKCDQAAFej4kY1/sunnis%20vs.%20shiites.jpg?et=Nm0Qm0w71mOZc9tSO7UrQA&nmid=" border=0>[from testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by Nir Rosen] At the same time that the Sunnis were realizing they had lost the civil war, Muqtada al Sadr realized his militia was out of his control, and he feared its clashes with Americans, Sunnis and fellow Shiites would threaten his own power. Moreover he knew that his militia was the main target for the increased American troops. So he imposed a "freeze," often mistranslated as a ceasefire his powerful militia so that he could "reform" it. The Americans had declared that the Mahdi Army would be targeted so the Mahdi Army largely withdrew to wait for the eventual reduction in American troops. The Mahdi Army was also ill disciplined and out of control, so Muqtada took advantage of the opportunity to consolidate control of his men and root out the unruly ones. When the Mahdi Army Freeze began there was an immediate and huge drop in violence, which shows just how responsible they were for the violence. At the same time the Sunn... http://iamawobbly.multiply.com/journal/item/80/An_intelligent_analysis_about_whats_really_going_on_in_Iraq... Mon, 19 May 2008 21:40:35 -0000 IfIwasaterroist.wmv Kudos to Leo for finding this one! http://iamawobbly.multiply.com/video/item/48/IfIwasaterroist.wmv Mon, 19 May 2008 20:26:41 -0000 Finally, something I can agree with... <H1 align=center><A href="http://iamawobbly.multiply.com/photos/hi-res/upload/SCfxkgoKCDQAAEywvxU1"><IMG class=alignright src="http://images.iamawobbly.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SCfxkgoKCDQAAEywvxU1/voting.gif?et=9Me0lT7dyAnz5qcp2E2uIA&nmid=" border=0></A><IMG class=alignleft src="http://images.iamawobbly.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SCfxVgoKCDQAAEUahuU1/images.jpg?et=WtZEbP47q3hpEleLuS%2C11Q&nmid=" border=0>Beyond Voting</H1>   <H3 align=left>THE LIMITS OF ELECTORAL POLITICS</H3> Roughly speaking we can distinguish five degrees of “government”:         (1) Unrestricted freedom         (2) Direct democracy         (3) Delegate democracy         (4) Representative democracy         (5) Overt minority dictatorship The present society oscillates between (4) and (5), i.e. between overt minority rule and covert minority rule camouflaged by a facade of token democracy. A liberated society would eliminate (4) and (5) and would progressively reduce the need for (2) and (3). . . . In representative democracy people abdicate their power to elected officials. The candidates’ stated policies are limited to a few vague generalities, and once they are elected there is little control over their actual decisions on hundreds of issues — apart f... http://iamawobbly.multiply.com/journal/item/79/Finally_something_I_can_agree_with... Mon, 12 May 2008 07:29:02 -0000 Show some solidarity with Wobbly workers' rights activist.. <A href="http://iamawobbly.multiply.com/photos/hi-res/upload/SCDO8woKCDQAADi4fhY1"><IMG class=alignleft src="http://images.iamawobbly.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SCDO8woKCDQAADi4fhY1/DaveK2web.jpg?et=BhFZ3HT5Ev2n19a9ylFSAg&nmid=" border=0></A> Show some solidarity, fellow workers. Just go to the link provided below.  It would also help, if you took the time to write Dave a brief message of support.  Cheers, Mike B) From: <A href="http://au.mc514.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=contact@unionsolidarity.org" ymailto="mailto:contact@unionsolidarity.org">contact@unionsolidarity.org</A> Date: 4 May 2008 10:18:28 PM Subject: Defend Dave Kerin, Union Solidarity Coordinator Faces 6 Months Jail Dear Supporters 1. Union Solidarity: Extraordinary Meeting. 2. Union Solidarity Coordinator Faces 6 months jail. 1. Union Solidarity will hold an extraordinary meeting to discuss the situation facing Dave Kerin. 6pm Wednesday May 7 Trade Halls (follow the signs to meeting room) Lygon St Carlton (All welcome) 2. Union Solidarity Coordinator Faces 6 months jail. Union Solidarity Coordinator Dave Kerin is now facing up to 6 months jail for supporting striking workers at Boeing. The Australian Workplace Ombudsman has issued Dave with a “Notice to produce documents” [see attachment] in relation to the recent strike at Boeing. Dave is being asked to supply a government agency with a... http://iamawobbly.multiply.com/journal/item/78/Show_some_solidarity_with_Wobbly_workers_rights_activist.. Tue, 6 May 2008 21:38:21 -0000 Marvin Gaye- What's Going On No to bosses' wars! Soldiers of the world unite and refuse to fight. You have nothing to lose but your http://iamawobbly.multiply.com/video/item/47/Marvin_Gaye-_Whats_Going_On Tue, 6 May 2008 07:33:07 -0000 Mustt Mustt (lost in his work) - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan I don't know about you, but I can dig it. http://iamawobbly.multiply.com/video/item/46/Mustt_Mustt_lost_in_his_work_-_Nusrat_Fateh_Ali_Khan Sat, 3 May 2008 23:09:11 -0000