Category: 1st Amendment

  • Weasel Zippers Snip the Menu and if it says “oops” this means

    Take it from the Weasel-Zippers, as a woman “writing politics” I’m effective enough to try to silence. They want to silence me. I may seek shelter in scholarship sometimes, but I will not be silenced.

    I appreciate the mirroring with CUNY Academic Commons that stems from my private site to my professional site. CUNY practices freedom of speech protection. No research and travel budget does not help. (Double negative intended.) Images are all mine.

    The National Review trained me (via Frederic D. O’Brien, formerly Frederic. D. Schwarz — his mug name.).

    Even more importantly, University of Chicago. Senior-sage-wise or the legendary academic editor John Tryneski helped me immensely. I forgot Out of Many, One: The Third American Political Tradition was almost pulped give the racket the late Rush Limbaugh made. This is an academic book with lots of footnotes, documenting former President Barack Obama’s first term

    Being a Congressional Page and an American presidency scholar means one tends to get the panic of having two years (or 100 days) to pass a law. Executive orders have always existed but . . .

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  • In a word, Gail, it’s Gramsci

    In a word, Gail, it’s Gramsci

    One of my cousins asked me a fun question. We were talking about Frick and Stout family artifacts from Iowa, Jacksonville Illinois, Des Moines, Grundy, and Polk Counties, all in Iowa, as well as Hopewell and Amwell, New Jersey, where Colonel Thomas Johnson Stout’s son left to head West.

    See David Forgacs, "Gramsci Undisabled" Modern Italy, 2016 doing:101017/mit.2016.33
    See Critical Studies of Education, Vol. 5 “Antonio Gramsci: A Pedagogy to Change the World” Nicola Pizzolato and John D. Holst, Editors (Cham, Switzerland, 2017)

    My baby sister Kathleen even has the china washbowl this single man brought with him all the way to Morgan County, IL The pitcher had long broken, our grandmother Ruth Finlayson Frick explained, along with the Dutch family tradition of giving the most prized artifacts to the last daughter married. On the back of that bowl in very discolored paper is an explanation of who Col. Stout was.

    Not only was he George’s (Washington) aide de camp, but he was a professor of religion and helped start Brown University too. But most of all, reading different newspaper accounts, the Colonel wanted nothing to do with receiving any Revolutionary War pension. Sure, he qualified, but he took it as an affront that anyone would think he would take money reserved for the poor.

    Antonio Gramsci didn’t think like Thomas Stout. And I am not even sure I would label his left-right politics partisan, yet. That said, he may have been honoring Revolutionary War widows and orphans. To me this means, like Gramsci 250 years later, Thomas Stout recognized the family and the hegemonic power within the family like Gramsci, who not only supported women’s rights but also those of children, unlike his Marxist and Communist and Anarchist or Syndicated Anarchist did with his particular preoccupation with culture and all the jarring juxtapositions that exist and do lead to change, like the changes we are seeing in the United States of America today.

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  • Heretic . . .

    Heretic . . .

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_O%27Brien

    Just in. And I am trying to have a news-less day. But my mini(computer) that is is too observant. “Grr”

    Death of Democracy

    The title is”How Disinformation Splintered and Became More Intractable” in the New York Times the website webpage version of course.

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  • /Control?/Resist?!?/Bodies_in_Revolt*

    /Control?/Resist?!?/Bodies_in_Revolt*

    This was written before the ADAAA was passed in 2008 as President George W. Bush (43, not 41) with Routledge, 2005 and sold as chapters or I can send PDFs per requests (robrien@gc.cuny.edu within each semester (approximately September to December and February to May) each year. I only have select chapters.

    Finally, Voices from the Edge: Narratives about the Americans with Disabilities Act (USA: Oxford University Press, 2004)

    Crippled Justice: The History of Disability in the Workplace (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, October 2001).

    https://www.hulu.com/watch/88ceaa35-dea2-49de-9985-8993d49574a0

    https://press.princeton.edu/series/the-public-square

    Writing Politics inspired both Voices from the Edge and the Public Square (PS) by PUP in Princeton, New Jersey)

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  • “Private is Professional, not “Personal”

    Doing research in remote European country on anarchy, state(s), & political violence against “All others-and/or all Others.”

    RuthOBrien.org temporarily dark or minimal content available. No access to plug ins by mirrored professional site. Professional IT retraining scheduled.

    Relieved not professional political hackers, nor personal interference by Dutch Fulbright UCLA trained Islamic Center Ph.D.

    Grants pending on above. IdeaImpact.org (non-partisan, non-profit est. 2914) grants available soon.

    Writing Politics Specialization Founded
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