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A revitalized blog with one mission: to present a moment that jolts your day, triggers new thinking, gets you through traffic tangles, and relieves job stress. Or, more prosaically, accompanies you through the early miles of bike touring through France and Italy. Wherever you are, I aim to change your day.

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Who's More Progressive? Bernie and Hillary, meet Marie Equi

2/7/2016

 
 Five months after the release of my biography of Marie Equi, I am re-reading my book without editing and revisions in mind. Today I found this on page 57, in my introduction to the direct democracy initiatives gaining momentum in Oregon:
“Oregon’s innovations reflected a new force in the nation’s body politic – a political vision and undertaking called Progressivism – that expressed a yearning for social change and a widespread discontent with the intrusions of corporate interests into American politics. Progressives hoped to forge a new political paradigm free of domination by corporate power brokers and guided by a robust exercise of citizen engagement. In this movement Marie Equi found her initial footing as an activist.”
The year was 1905. In eight more years, Equi became radicalized after getting clubbed by police during a labor strike.

Marie Equi: Radical Politics and Outlaw Passions
Oregon State University Press
Available in bookstores; check the “Look Inside” feature at Amazon:   http://goo.gl/fWAjmW
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