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		<title>&#8220;We Won&#8217;t Bow Down&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the deeply-flawed but still revolutionary Health Care Reform bill on my mind, I thought I&#8217;d point folks to this terrific piece by Rebecca Solnit (for whom I have total essay-talent-envy, if only I could do what she can do). Anyhow, it ran in the Nation a while back, and it&#8217;s an eloquent rebuttal of defeatism: Six years ago I wrote a book about hope. A few years later I went to look at the worst things that happen to people and found some more hope in the resilience, the inventiveness, the bravery and occasionally the long-term subversion with which people respond. It culminated in another fairly hopeful book, based on the surprising evidence of what actually happens in disaster. Civil society happens, and sometimes joy in that society; institutional failure often also transpires. Sometimes a power struggle to re-establish the status quo follows, and sometimes the status quo wins, sometimes it doesn&#8217;t. Which is to say, sometimes we win, though that&#8217;s far from inevitable. This is grounds to be hopeful. Now, being hopeful seems to me like it&#8217;s preferable to being hopeless, but for six years I&#8217;ve been talking about these books in public. This means I&#8217;ve also been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Something to Think About Before the State of the Union</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t read No Logo yet, but like Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy, it&#8217;s going on my list of interlibrary loan requests. I found this a couple of days ago, and in light of the forthcoming State of the Union, toward which I wish I was feeling less jaded, it&#8217;s an interesting take on what&#8217;s been frustrating some of us on the progressive side of the political spectrum. Enough with the task forces, and the pronouncements, and all of that. Just DO Something. Like ram health care through. I was thinking last night while driving down valley that we need an LBJ right now, someone not afraid to bust heads, and it occurred to me that perhaps that person was Hillary Clinton? Just a passing thought, and actually, I think she&#8217;s a fabulous Secretary of State &#8230; but I had a moment. Did I back the wrong candidate? Naomi Klein on how corporate branding has taken over America &#124; Books &#124; The Guardian This preference for symbols over substance, and this unwillingness to stick to a morally clear if unpopular course, is where Obama decisively parts ways with the transformative political movements from which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Max? Whose Side Are You On, Anyway?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:47:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t written about politics in a while, but this health reform debate is making me froth at the mouth. I&#8217;ve called Baucus&#8217;s office so many times that I think I&#8217;m on the &#8220;crazy lady&#8221; list. First off, the idea that we&#8217;re going to have a public mandate with no public option is insane. Why on earth should we give huge subsidies of public money to the insurance companies who have done nothing but openly rip us all off for decades? A public mandate with no public option to keep them in check is simple collusion. Thanks Max. I guess we know now why they gave you all that money. Second, this is Montana. I don&#8217;t know anyone (including myself at this point) who has insurance through a job. Wait, my friend Jennifer is a public schoolteacher. She gets insurance. Other than that everyone else I know is self-employed: writers, artists, carpenters, fishing guides, small business owners, ranchers. None of us can get anything other than the crappiest, high-deductible, won&#8217;t-cover-you-if-you-do-get-sick insurance. One writer friend of mine bankrupted himself last year paying for his girlfriend&#8217;s care as she died of cancer. She had insurance, but that 80/20 deductible, well there wasn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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