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Jay Taber

• Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank

  Dec 15, 2007 by Jay Taber

  I have gradually stopped trying to understand the reason for any particular wall, or road, or fence. In reality they have no precise logic. This does not mean that the whole arrangement is irrational: the loops of the wall, the roads reserved for settlers and the occupation troops, the fences surrounding the twenty-five settlements in... more →

  Posted in Artby - Jay Taber, Daily, FW Geo-Politics

• Isolated Incidents

  Dec 7, 2007 by Jay Taber

  Three recent news items caught my eye this week. One on Canadian mining corporations supporting murderous dictators around the globe, another on Yahoo selling the IDs of four dissident writers to the Chinese government, and a third on India‘s plans to clear indigenous people from the landscape. While none of this is especially surprising or... more →

  Posted in Artby - Jay Taber, Daily, Economy

• Political Illiteracy

  Nov 24, 2007 by Jay Taber

  In his December 1990 report Right Woos Left, Chip Berlet of Political Research Associates examined neo-fascist overtures to antiwar activists, and the need to confront rightist ideologies and bigotry by discussing the dilemmas posed by the transfusion of right-wing theories and research into progressive circles. Based on these discussions, Mr. Berlet wrote the book Right-Wing... more →

  Posted in Artby - Jay Taber, Daily, Political

• Writing and Fighting

  Nov 22, 2007 by Jay Taber

  You can not be creative in a system that is very unjust, like the system we live in, unless you are a dissident. Because when you are creative you are for justice, for freedom, for love. It’s by nature like that. You feel that you want to do something. You can not accept injustice. You... more →

  Posted in Artby - Jay Taber, Daily

• Ceremony

  Nov 19, 2007 by Jay Taber

  “I will tell you something about stories. They aren’t just entertainment. Don’t be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death.” —from Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko... more →

  Posted in Artby - Jay Taber, Arts and Culture, Daily