…nobody cared when financial blood was running in the streets of Cleveland, but now that blood is running in Wall Street it’s a national crisis. The deal that stops the bleeding on Wall Street and gives the banks a new start must do the same for the streets of Cleveland, Detroit, Cincinnati and Chicago.
— What communities like Cleveland need in the bank bailout bill [via]
This is just a collection of things I think are neat.
A general overview of 'things I think are neat':abandonment/the post-industrial midwest, anarchism (syndicalism, insurrectionalism, etc), race/ethnicity (esp. defining/constructing the boundaries of whiteness), gender, class (talking/thinking about class generally seems to be an underrated activity), health care (access to, the experience of obtaining, etc), art, science fiction, punk music, conservative talk radio and anthropology (which probably incorporates almost everything else about people).
