Hammer Mill Days

Hmmm. That drill bit looks a little large. As in, larger than the entire building. Perhaps if we moved the hammer mill a little to the left. No? Hokay. Oh, well.... hi there. Just negotiating a small issue with a representative from Hegemonic Records and Worm Farm, Inc., the entertainment branch of the titanic multinational that has agreed to, once again, sponsor Big Green - take us under their cold steel wing, as it were - in exchange for mineral rights to the land upon which our adopted squat-house home, the abandoned Cheney Hammer Mill, now sits. What is it about these Hegemonic guys that even their A and R people wear full body armor? They seem a little, I don't know, nervous. This guy I'm talking to has a very twitchy trigger finger. Wish to hell he'd put that Kalashnikov down. Hegemonic, as some of you may recall, was our corporate label back in the early 2000's. We had a little falling out.... though I guess you could almost call it a "falling in,"...

So Scott Walker held on to his job in Wisconsin. Not a huge surprise. The polling has been in his favor for weeks. Plus the recall effort has kind of had the stench of failure about it as we approached the actual vote; people hedging and putting on the brave face. Sorry to see so many working people disappointed in that way. I've never been a big fan of the recall concept, personally, but I understand how they came to that point. If nothing else, the effort did give them motivation to do what actually needs to be done in Wisconsin and elsewhere - organize. It's not just about voting. It's more about standing up for your rights and fighting back against the torrent of corporate money swamping our politics. John Dewey had it about right when he said that politics is the shadow cast on society by big business. I suppose in his day it wasn't very different - the wealthy have always pressed their advantage. Perhaps the period from World War II through the 1970s will be see...