Bruce Springsteen is reportedly planning a concert tour in Tel Aviv this summer. They’ve been trying to snag him for a few years now since his music speaks to the dispossessed. It would be a feather in Israeli apartheid’s cap but it sure ain’t something justice can stand for. It’s educate Bruce Springsteen time.

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Like this Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Bruce.Springsteen.Justice.not.ap…/…

This is another FB wall where you can appeal to him because he needs to put playing for apartheid to rest, once & for all: https://www.facebook.com/brucespringsteen/?fref=ts

So Trump took the New Hampshire primary with 38,481 voters & Bernie Sanders with 63,000 plus compared to Clinton’s 43,000 plus. Something’s not adding up here since the population of NH is 1,330,608. In US politics, for years, the majority of eligible voters don’t bother to register; the majority of registered voters don’t bother to vote. So candidates are elected by a minority of eligible voters.

In the 1980s, in a speech Sanders gave in Boston, he discussed that phenomenon. He said on the one hand it reflected disdain of the electoral process & on the other hand, political passivity. It might have been the last time the guy had something politically cogent to say.

Had to do a quick run to the post office today but was covered in dog stains & dog hair & smelled like a livestock pen from holding them. I didn’t want to make a big production & get all dolled up for a five-minute job, so I squirted on a little Shalimar, dabbed on some lipstick & took off.

This is the season when seniors from Canada & northern US states come here to winter. The post office was filled with them attired even more unfashionably than my get-up. And I was the only one that smelled hot. So exactly why have they let themselves go like that? I can blame the mutts. What’s their excuse!? For ten whole minutes I felt superior. Till I got home & saw myself in the mirror. I’m hiding out now.

The US has Obama of the toothy grin to peddle barbaric wars & Israeli apartheid; Canadians have to put up with that Trudeau creep who just drips with smarm. Israel might want to think twice about letting him support them because when you watch his defense, the word puke comes to mind–referring to him & to your reaction.

Take a load of this video & retch:https://www.facebook.com/IsraelWC/videos/929722380451917/

It’s been a while now since I’ve seen anyone calling for a “nuanced” analysis of a situation. Is social media reducing the level of intellectual pretensions or have they just been driven to Facebook hell through blocking? Some of us don’t do nuance very well. It smacks of evasion & equivocation, of attempts to complicate things so no one knows what the hell is going on. It’s a refusal to choose sides when the struggle for justice requires that. It doesn’t require demonizing but there’s no hope for social transformation if you won’t call a spade a spade.

Human beings who are being wronged, persecuted, vilified, oppressed need us to stand with them without any “nuance” getting in the way of things. Leave “complexities” to simple-minded apologists for the status quo.

This is a refugee in Greece whose name & nationality are not identified. Let him stand for the 60 million people now on the move all over this planet fleeing from war, bombing, plunder, & sweatshop economics.

All the scriptural exhortations in every holy book & all the high-flown political rhetoric & poetics like “Give me your tired, your poor…” mean nothing to governments whose modus operandi is neoliberalism, the barbaric phase of capitalism.

But to us, to working people, they are ours, they are brothers & sisters. They are fellow human beings & we demand solidarity with them by standing against the wars & plunder driving them & by demanding the borders be opened to all refugees & immigrants & every human hospitality & solidarity be offered them.