Thank you very much for being one of the few Americans to care at all about the reality of the ongoing, nowhere near even actually begun in terms of the worst of it, nuclear radiation/radionuclide/Northern Hemisphere radiologic plume disaster unfolding now in and from Japan after the March 11, 2011 earthquake–and perhaps from before if you’ve been reading about Kashiwazaki Kariwa plant (largest on the planet) on the other side of Honshu. I very much appreciate your chutzpah, as probably more than 90%, conservatively, of all Americans, are completely buying the ever tightening news blackout noose around this most importa and intensely worsening issue. I live in CA and have been buying up whatever bottled water (1-2 gal. containers) I can find that was bottled before about March 15th or so. I’m no hoarder; I’ll share. However, it amazes me that there’s still so much drinking water on the shelves when the drinking water in NY was only 10 days after the event, perhaps unfit to drink. Living in California, I’m certain the water here will be undrinkable until the 7,000+ tons of nuclear fuel (not 1,000 tons) having issues at Fukushima is actually contained. I’ve been doing a lot of research on dosimetry and nuclear fuel accidental criticality, as well as anything I can get my hands on, and it’s sometimes difficult to find good information on nuclear power. I have no formal credentials, so obviously, feel free to take or leave anything I might say though I do, mainly, rely on verifying peer-reviewed sources for any assertions made or that I will make for whatever that’s worth, and it’s not always worth as much as those ensconced in ivory towers would have us believe. However, as I pass information along to you, you may see that I’m a pretty fair extrapolator of reality as opposed to retail reality. Anyway, thank you so much again for all your hard work. I’ve never, myself, been able to get it together to do a website and have tried. Koodos to you. In admiration, Sincerely yours, Frank Snapp
Mitch,
I attended Stony Brook fro 1969-1973. I recently found your newsletter citing the untimely death of Bob Rosado. Living in O’Neill College E-wing, I was one of Bob’s “disciples”(a strange mix of Long Island Jewish boys and South Bronx members of the Young Lords)who help engineer Bob’s election as student body president.
Is there any information about the whereabouts of his wife, Kim?
I really appreciate your radio interview with Ashanti Alston. Ashanti expresses some powerful history with sharp themes of popular self-management. I think your critical essay taking on Chris Hedges’s attack on anarchists in the Occupy Movement, though more than a year old, will be recognized as a classic as times goes on. Great work!
I was wondering if you would interview me on your radio show about my satirical novel of college life called, THE CUTTING EDGE.
Robert Roth suggested that I contact you.
Here are a couple of blurbs from my book:
The Cutting Edge by David Lansky
The Cutting Edge is a novel of powerful imagination, rollicking humour, profound insight and deep political commitment. The novel is divided into two parts. The first section is The College Essays of Jenny Delight. No one is quite sure who Jenny is. It is an obvious pseudonym since there is no student by this name at the college she attends. It is a hilarious section laced with social and personal insight as Jenny tries to understand the world around her, often using categories she’s learning, sometimes the most abstract categories available, and infusing them with vivid meaning. The second section, Bill of Sale, is the posthumously-discovered manuscript of Sociology Professor Fred Snyder. It is a harrowing account of very vulnerable people who are victims of their society. It is a section revealing, with extraordinary power, the ruthlessness of contemporary capitalism and its relentless destructive force. The Cutting Edge is one hell of a book!
—Robert Roth, author of Health Proxy
At once funny and dead serious, The Cutting Edge tells it like it is about the situation of public higher education in the early 21st-century United States. Sociology professor Fred Snyder—nostalgic for the era of Marcuse and the New Left, eternally at war with the college administration, committed to the ethical and political development of his students—is a wonderful creation. Skillfully narrated from several overlapping points of view, this satirical novel cuts to the chase in its astute portrayal of the connections between contemporary capitalism and the working-class college experience.
—Barbara Foley, Rutgers University
The Cutting Edge is at once a meeting of teachers and students under conditions of critical hilarity, and a deeply empathetic portrait of where the commitment to re-craft our learning environments in line with their most abiding promise might lead us if we attend closely as the author does to the poignancy of the stories all around us. It rewards readers with an insightful view on a delicate landscape often overlooked.
—Randy Martin, New York University
For more information about this book, contact Xlibris at (888) 795-4274 or on the web at http://www.Xlibris.com
Paperback copies or E-books of The Cutting Edge by David Lansky can be purchased from Barns and Noble or any of the other major online book vendors.
Hi Mitch, my name is Arkee Hodges. I am the President of the Black Achievement Fund. You interviewed me and a colleague, Jesus Powell in 2009. The interview was about the launch of the Black Achievement Fund. Is there any way I can get a transcript of the interview to put on our website? My cell number is 404-449-9427. Thanks.
Mitch, Please send me your snail mail or PO Box, as I’d like to send you a copy of Crysta Casey’s just-published Rules for Walking Out (Cave Moon Press).
Mitchell, it is your old nemesis Ira Wechsler. I did not vote in the WBAI election as I could not trsut either group. Your group led by Randy Credico with a strange relationship with dirty trickster Roger Stone. He is either an idiot or a operative for the CIA. Really not sure about that but certainly snot trustworthy. Then the Peace and Justice group has always been tied to nationalist or opportunist fakers like Charles Baron. I remember when my brother Kurt Rauceo, a Black Trini PLP hospital worker in 1199 took control of a march of 1199ers and community to save Brookdale Hospital when Cuomo was attacking Brooklyn hospitals a few years back. Charles Baron at first pretended to support the move and then sided with the sellout 1199 leadership the next day at a meeting in Brownsville. Jumai Williams another scum politician from Flatbus came to may of the PLP organized marches in Flatbush when we led hundreds to protest teh NYPD murder of unarmed Shantel Davis on Church Avenue in Flatbush. This guy also tried to build support for the NYPD with a citizen watch group that would work with the cops. Jumani Williams has been on several WBAI shows . WBAI pushes Black capitalism and equates progressive politics with the liberal capitalist Democratic Party. The programming has become progressively more disgusting over the years. What is happening to WBAI was sown in its own right wing politics. Its internal contradictions have produced the rot in this station and the loss of listeners and financial support. I am terminating my WBAI Buddy membership tomorrow. I rarely listen to it anymore as the content is pathetic. Give me a call at 718 377-1465 my home landline.
I noticed your song commemorating the capture of Pinochet. It evoked an old memory. In PLP the editor of Challenge-Desafio in the 70’s and eighties and a good part of the nineties was our Dominican comrade Luis Castro. He had widespread ties not only with his fellow Dominicanos but throughout Mexico, Central, and South America. About a month before Kissinger setup the coupe with Pinochet that overthrew Allende he went to Santiago, Chile to meet with the leaders of M.I.R Movimiento Revolucionario Independentista urging to go underground and organize their members for clandestine work. They seemed not to smell the dangers that were imminent. The leadership and most members were killed off in a matter of days. It was disheartening they had the best political line of any of the parties in South America, all for naught.The thousands of bodies were floating in the river near Santiago. We are doing well in Africa spreading our working East African countries. In Indis, Pakistan, and Bangadesh as well
Dear Mitchell:
Thank you very much for being one of the few Americans to care at all about the reality of the ongoing, nowhere near even actually begun in terms of the worst of it, nuclear radiation/radionuclide/Northern Hemisphere radiologic plume disaster unfolding now in and from Japan after the March 11, 2011 earthquake–and perhaps from before if you’ve been reading about Kashiwazaki Kariwa plant (largest on the planet) on the other side of Honshu. I very much appreciate your chutzpah, as probably more than 90%, conservatively, of all Americans, are completely buying the ever tightening news blackout noose around this most importa and intensely worsening issue. I live in CA and have been buying up whatever bottled water (1-2 gal. containers) I can find that was bottled before about March 15th or so. I’m no hoarder; I’ll share. However, it amazes me that there’s still so much drinking water on the shelves when the drinking water in NY was only 10 days after the event, perhaps unfit to drink. Living in California, I’m certain the water here will be undrinkable until the 7,000+ tons of nuclear fuel (not 1,000 tons) having issues at Fukushima is actually contained. I’ve been doing a lot of research on dosimetry and nuclear fuel accidental criticality, as well as anything I can get my hands on, and it’s sometimes difficult to find good information on nuclear power. I have no formal credentials, so obviously, feel free to take or leave anything I might say though I do, mainly, rely on verifying peer-reviewed sources for any assertions made or that I will make for whatever that’s worth, and it’s not always worth as much as those ensconced in ivory towers would have us believe. However, as I pass information along to you, you may see that I’m a pretty fair extrapolator of reality as opposed to retail reality. Anyway, thank you so much again for all your hard work. I’ve never, myself, been able to get it together to do a website and have tried. Koodos to you. In admiration, Sincerely yours, Frank Snapp
Mitch,
I attended Stony Brook fro 1969-1973. I recently found your newsletter citing the untimely death of Bob Rosado. Living in O’Neill College E-wing, I was one of Bob’s “disciples”(a strange mix of Long Island Jewish boys and South Bronx members of the Young Lords)who help engineer Bob’s election as student body president.
Is there any information about the whereabouts of his wife, Kim?
I guess you must remember me Hunter. Stony Brook 1967-71. Perhaps you might know several people I have lost touch with over the years.
Best regards.
Take care
Hi Mitch:
I really appreciate your radio interview with Ashanti Alston. Ashanti expresses some powerful history with sharp themes of popular self-management. I think your critical essay taking on Chris Hedges’s attack on anarchists in the Occupy Movement, though more than a year old, will be recognized as a classic as times goes on. Great work!
Best wishes,
Matthew
I was wondering if you would interview me on your radio show about my satirical novel of college life called, THE CUTTING EDGE.
Robert Roth suggested that I contact you.
George Snedeker
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Here are a couple of blurbs from my book:
The Cutting Edge by David Lansky
The Cutting Edge is a novel of powerful imagination, rollicking humour, profound insight and deep political commitment. The novel is divided into two parts. The first section is The College Essays of Jenny Delight. No one is quite sure who Jenny is. It is an obvious pseudonym since there is no student by this name at the college she attends. It is a hilarious section laced with social and personal insight as Jenny tries to understand the world around her, often using categories she’s learning, sometimes the most abstract categories available, and infusing them with vivid meaning. The second section, Bill of Sale, is the posthumously-discovered manuscript of Sociology Professor Fred Snyder. It is a harrowing account of very vulnerable people who are victims of their society. It is a section revealing, with extraordinary power, the ruthlessness of contemporary capitalism and its relentless destructive force. The Cutting Edge is one hell of a book!
—Robert Roth, author of Health Proxy
At once funny and dead serious, The Cutting Edge tells it like it is about the situation of public higher education in the early 21st-century United States. Sociology professor Fred Snyder—nostalgic for the era of Marcuse and the New Left, eternally at war with the college administration, committed to the ethical and political development of his students—is a wonderful creation. Skillfully narrated from several overlapping points of view, this satirical novel cuts to the chase in its astute portrayal of the connections between contemporary capitalism and the working-class college experience.
—Barbara Foley, Rutgers University
The Cutting Edge is at once a meeting of teachers and students under conditions of critical hilarity, and a deeply empathetic portrait of where the commitment to re-craft our learning environments in line with their most abiding promise might lead us if we attend closely as the author does to the poignancy of the stories all around us. It rewards readers with an insightful view on a delicate landscape often overlooked.
—Randy Martin, New York University
For more information about this book, contact Xlibris at (888) 795-4274 or on the web at http://www.Xlibris.com
Paperback copies or E-books of The Cutting Edge by David Lansky can be purchased from Barns and Noble or any of the other major online book vendors.
1. The Cutting Edge: David Lansky: 9781493121274
I can be reached at 540-886-0701.
GS
Hi Mitch, my name is Arkee Hodges. I am the President of the Black Achievement Fund. You interviewed me and a colleague, Jesus Powell in 2009. The interview was about the launch of the Black Achievement Fund. Is there any way I can get a transcript of the interview to put on our website? My cell number is 404-449-9427. Thanks.
Mitch, Please send me your snail mail or PO Box, as I’d like to send you a copy of Crysta Casey’s just-published Rules for Walking Out (Cave Moon Press).
Deborah and George
Mitchell, it is your old nemesis Ira Wechsler. I did not vote in the WBAI election as I could not trsut either group. Your group led by Randy Credico with a strange relationship with dirty trickster Roger Stone. He is either an idiot or a operative for the CIA. Really not sure about that but certainly snot trustworthy. Then the Peace and Justice group has always been tied to nationalist or opportunist fakers like Charles Baron. I remember when my brother Kurt Rauceo, a Black Trini PLP hospital worker in 1199 took control of a march of 1199ers and community to save Brookdale Hospital when Cuomo was attacking Brooklyn hospitals a few years back. Charles Baron at first pretended to support the move and then sided with the sellout 1199 leadership the next day at a meeting in Brownsville. Jumai Williams another scum politician from Flatbus came to may of the PLP organized marches in Flatbush when we led hundreds to protest teh NYPD murder of unarmed Shantel Davis on Church Avenue in Flatbush. This guy also tried to build support for the NYPD with a citizen watch group that would work with the cops. Jumani Williams has been on several WBAI shows . WBAI pushes Black capitalism and equates progressive politics with the liberal capitalist Democratic Party. The programming has become progressively more disgusting over the years. What is happening to WBAI was sown in its own right wing politics. Its internal contradictions have produced the rot in this station and the loss of listeners and financial support. I am terminating my WBAI Buddy membership tomorrow. I rarely listen to it anymore as the content is pathetic. Give me a call at 718 377-1465 my home landline.
I noticed your song commemorating the capture of Pinochet. It evoked an old memory. In PLP the editor of Challenge-Desafio in the 70’s and eighties and a good part of the nineties was our Dominican comrade Luis Castro. He had widespread ties not only with his fellow Dominicanos but throughout Mexico, Central, and South America. About a month before Kissinger setup the coupe with Pinochet that overthrew Allende he went to Santiago, Chile to meet with the leaders of M.I.R Movimiento Revolucionario Independentista urging to go underground and organize their members for clandestine work. They seemed not to smell the dangers that were imminent. The leadership and most members were killed off in a matter of days. It was disheartening they had the best political line of any of the parties in South America, all for naught.The thousands of bodies were floating in the river near Santiago. We are doing well in Africa spreading our working East African countries. In Indis, Pakistan, and Bangadesh as well
Hey uh quick question?
Does the Red Balloon Collective participate in mutual aid?