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May 11 2007

End of the School Year

Published by jrusso under flipside, activism, school

The school year is coming to a close and I have a headache. That headache means quite a bit. I am getting tired of school. I am getting tired of schoolwork and I am getting tired of my head hurting because I haven’t worn my glasses all day. The meanings behind it are quite immense.
But more importantly I am sick of the school system and the ideas behind school and everything attached to what it means. I don’t want to be a functioning capitalist citizen. But it’s getting harder and harder to hold control.
Lately I have been reading blogs about finance and financial control and it’s kind of fun to keep track almost as a sort of game. But I find myself falling victem to a fiscal machine.
Recently I read about creating and organizing co-ops and I would really appreciate and love doing that. We will see.
This brings me to the next point I want to discuss: I am sick of the lack of activism in Eau Claire. I want to see it grow and be a powerful thing that everyone knows and understands and sees as necessary. But those are some intense goals. This means that I will have to truly focus. I intend to use this summer without school work to get involved and start organizing such things. Eventually, I would like to see the next lease I sign be one for a cooperative with people that are willing to combine and work together. We will see if this happens, but it is certainly I goal that I have.
On another note, I have been working on the hopefully new flipside website. I am not even the webmaster but I really want to see this happen. It will make editing and even publishing our issues easier and more involved with the internet.
Otherwise, I am off. I think that I can get my glasses and get cleaned up after a day of volleyball, soccer and a lot of heat.

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Feb 10 2007

National Slander

Published by jrusso under venezuela, flipside

The U.S. has consistently slandered Venezuela’s democracy and called it a nationalist fascist regime. But realistically this is far from the truth. The beautiful thing about what has been going on lately is that corporate interest is greatly enjoying the stability of Venezuela’s oil industry. But our Secretary Rice has again defamed Venezuela’s reputation in a bout of slander that is criminal.

Read BoRev.net for the scoop on U.S slander and the real Venezuelan picture. This stuff really gets you riled up.

For now, I am off to work on the Flipside. Hopefully we will get this issue done soon! I don’t think I will have an article in this issue, but it will definitely have one for the next issue.

Have a good weekend!

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