tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post9191708185716407791..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Strike ("yet is their strength labour and sorrow")Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-55901971442966439512012-09-02T15:35:41.902-07:002012-09-02T15:35:41.902-07:00Aporia, are you
the same as conundrum
or a bit ...Aporia, are you <br />the same as conundrum <br />or a bit different<br />other sense of lost<br />knowing it<br />as opposed to<br />realizing it later<br />once out of it?<br /><br />Such as <br />teacher by day<br />detective at night<br />pay the same <br />different dues.<br /><br /><br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFv1kqdl2VQ&NR=1&feature=endscreenSusan Kay Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16277139119869470939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-59922960547437759662012-09-02T14:40:55.199-07:002012-09-02T14:40:55.199-07:00The productive relationship
lasted
between observ...The productive relationship <br />lasted<br />between observable transits of Venus<br />a span of years measured <br />to be of use, beneficial<br />and strong<br />recorded by a few scientists<br />well, more than a few.<br />At least one was cooked<br />said not to have been eaten.<br /><br />These events were of importance<br />were mostly about longitude<br />a new attitude<br />on the map.<br />Do you have one<br />we could trade<br />or should you pay<br />some beads some trinkets?Susan Kay Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16277139119869470939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-16946105355098119662012-09-02T14:19:22.454-07:002012-09-02T14:19:22.454-07:00The factory so simple
from outside
once in
complex...The factory so simple<br />from outside<br />once in<br />complexities<br /><br />like the break room <br />a forest<br />danger, resentment, claim<br />trees firmly planted<br /><br />You find out later<br />it was a mistake<br />then, too late<br />something already created<br />when you turned to go<br /><br />But give me this at least<br />it is something to ignore<br /><br />at least eat <br />feed the others too<br />between warsSusan Kay Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16277139119869470939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-27402543025140943922012-09-02T14:07:15.421-07:002012-09-02T14:07:15.421-07:00Labor is and always has been the single greatest c...Labor is and always has been the single greatest cost that capitalists must deal with. They view labor as an expense; they don’t see human beings. A long time ago, someone pointed out that no single individual can become wealthy by using only the energy of his or her own person. Individual wealth derives from the labor of many people. It’s energy stolen from others in a myriad of ways. Capitalism makes a point of ignoring this, and of minimizing the role of labor.Hazenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13417573435195561519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-91820217326859330762012-09-02T14:03:34.034-07:002012-09-02T14:03:34.034-07:00Use me
but I want to be paid
why is this so strang...Use me<br />but I want to be paid<br />why is this so strange<br /><br />I have to eat <br />before I'm trashed<br /><br />I am anoher scavenger<br />combing through <br />the ruins <br />for a job<br />that does not exist<br /><br />others lived and died<br />wanting<br /><br />this technicality<br />I owe my life to it<br /><br />until the numbers<br />did not match<br /><br />my voice killed<br />in front of the others<br />over and over<br /><br />Tell me<br />did they make it<br />to Gold Hill<br />past the borderSusan Kay Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16277139119869470939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-76115685808539638482012-09-02T13:19:28.946-07:002012-09-02T13:19:28.946-07:00Tom,
As Wooden Boy says, these photos are incredi...Tom,<br /><br />As Wooden Boy says, these photos are incredible -- and all too credible too. And as Woody Guthrie sang, "This land is your land, this land is my land. . . " from (as these photos show) Chicago to Minneapolis to SF to Jefferson County AL to Detroit to Cambridge MD to NYC to Morrisville PA to Bakersville CA to Kempton WVA to Salinas CA to Duck Town TN to Sikeston MS to Yabucoa PR. . .<br /><br />. . . yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.<br /><br />9.2<br /><br />grey whiteness of fog against invisible<br />ridge, shadowed corner of redwood fence<br />in foreground, sound of wave in channel<br /><br /> position “tells entire life,”<br /> such a sense of scene<br /><br /> uninterrupted, materialized,<br /> whether as or in each<br /><br />grey white of fog against top of ridge,<br />pelican flapping across toward horizon<br /><br />STEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-83204035600497423462012-09-02T12:07:16.278-07:002012-09-02T12:07:16.278-07:00Hey, Comrade Tom,
Thanks for posting those photos....Hey, Comrade Tom,<br />Thanks for posting those photos. A number of them- Ford Motor Plan and, I think, Chicago Memorial Day- were taken by my father. He sold the rights for a bit of cash, thus "photographer unknown." <br /><br />Happy Labor Day,<br />Woody Haut<br />Woody Hauthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13837720724248494747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-35817340412929002402012-09-02T10:56:59.214-07:002012-09-02T10:56:59.214-07:00WB invokes the circus; coincidentally it seems to ...WB invokes the circus; coincidentally it seems to have hit the mainland just last week -- that surrealistically scripted pre halloween carnival culminating in the spectacle of the man with the world's biggest gun going off on an eight minute tipsoid half gainer into the heart of Planet Gibberish.<br /><br />But whatever. These have been long laborious sleepless and parlous nights of thinking about the changing and largely now lost meanings of labour.<br /><br />From C17, except in the special use for childbirth, it seems the word labour gradually lost its habitual association with pain and began to be perceived as a name for a general social activity, with the inevitable complementary lexical inflation of abstraction. At some historical point, as Raymond Williams notes (mid to late 18C), labour became a measurable and calculable component in political economy.<br /><br />"Where labour, in its most general use, had meant all productive work, it now came to mean that element of production which in combination with capital and materials produced commodities. This new specialized use belongs directly to the systematized understanding of capitalist productive relationships...<br /><br />"[By C20] labour had developed two modern senses: first the economic abstraction of the activity; secondly, the sociological abstraction of that class of people who performed it..." <br /><br />When Beatrice Webb speaks of "labour docile", she is, in Williams' terms, suggesting a description of a class.<br /><br />In this town, a high percentage of the actual physical work is done by "illegal aliens", who are happy to have it, and work harder and at far lower wages than would a bonafide citizen. <br /><br />"What a terrible gift is the strength that comes from labour and sorrow!"TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-45352600340616395722012-09-02T10:45:45.611-07:002012-09-02T10:45:45.611-07:00Looking at these pictures reminded me of something...Looking at these pictures reminded me of something I wrote last year: "Fortunately, the numbers soon increased, dramatically so. Until eventually I could become a part of the crowd. And it was within this crowd, though I cannot place the moment itself, that I realized, despite what I recall recently telling you, I’m not seeking a cause with which to align myself so much as I am seeking an occasion to become strictly a body. I live so much in words. I feel awkward, even with people I know & love, when standing in the flesh, face to face, being seen. I have a confidence with verbal and written expression that I do not in my physical individuality & the space I cut in this world alone. What I want of a crowd, whose motivations, though myriad, are directed against or toward — in a kind of strange harmony, a music to which you would not listen for leisure — that which we may not know or be willing to say by name, is a momentary disintegration — a burning away of myself until all that is left is the presence of a body, not even a voice, in protest. That alone." I re-read this now and realize that perhaps "burning" is not the greatest word to have used. Looking at these photos, I suspect "beating" is more appropriate. I suspect we will see more actions like these depicted in the coming years. (Indeed, the rest of the world already is.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-38622949806592345022012-09-02T09:22:52.238-07:002012-09-02T09:22:52.238-07:00"I never visualized labour as separate men an..."I never visualized labour as separate men and women of different sorts and kinds... labour was an abstraction, which seemed to denote an arithmetically calculable mass of human beings, each individual a repetition of the other..."<br /><br />Webb is at the heart of the business here. What a terrible gift is the strength that comes from labour and sorrow!<br /><br />Ed, you're right to bring up the question of race. The unions in the UK don't have a great record when it comes to the treatment of Black and Asian workers. One key factor in the change was a strike led by Asian women at Grunwicks in 1977.<br /><br />The photographs are incredible. The struggle seems more real than any strike I've been a part of, so much more urgency. What is wonderful is the faces; people tasting a little measure of autonomy.<br /><br />I'm pretty sure these particular forms of resistance are impossible in the West right now. Plenty of panem et circenses to go round for the time being, courtesy of ASDA (Walmart) and BSkyB.<br /><br />Mose23https://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-52612282606033268292012-09-02T07:38:21.686-07:002012-09-02T07:38:21.686-07:00NEAT..
wasn't George Romney a leader in (some ...NEAT..<br />wasn't George Romney a leader in (some of these) protest demonstration .. I also seem to recall his marching in NAACP protest...<br /><br />some info about George Romney here:<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Romney<br /><br />this Willard "Mitt" Romney sure ain't his father !<br /> <br />and I just heard that this Paul Ryan at about age 40 ran ONE marathon... said he did it in 2 hours ! Turns out the actually did run a marathon <br /><br />HOWEVER, his time was NOT 2 hours IT WAS $ HOURS..<br /><br />I've run 7 marathons my personal best was when I was age 53... 3hrs, 51 mins & 'change'<br /><br />notice in these photos only one black man ? and the numbers with arrows I guess the FBI trying to identify (except for the black man) those<br /><br />"Uppity Whites"<br />Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.com