Poetry

Fuck You very Much

(Written for Memorial Day 2015.)   to all those whose idea of patriotism is sending out young people to die trying to kill other young people trying to kill them: FUCK YOU. to all those more concerned with the profits and interests of corporations than the cost of permanent war on individual humans and societies […]

Poetry

Bosnia

First published 1994/1995 nero sits in his white house eating big macs and playing the sax while adolf in munich dances a jig rachel stands alone forsaken by the world weeping for her children like an audience at the coliseum watching gladiators fight the world waits for her children to die with pilate we wash […]

Economy & Finance Neoliberalism Privilege Ungagged Writing

Rise Up and Abandon the Creeping Meatball

  Remember what Jean Shepherd said about creeping meatballism being the passive acquiescence of people who surrender to the demands of the consumer culture and collaborate in their own manipulation? In the Great Satan back in the 1960s, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, and three of their friends founded the counterculture-oriented Youth International Party whose slogan […]

Ungagged Team

Chuck Hamilton

Chuck Hamilton was born 27 June 1963 in a building literally a hundred yards from his current flat, which is also directly across the street from the university where he got his bachelor’s in political science in 1985. While at UTC Chuck helped establish a social activist organization on campus that later put on one […]

Neil Scott Ungagged Podcasts

#Yes2, the International Butterflies and the Screams of the Traditional Media!

Yes2, the Internationalist Butterflies and the Screams of the Traditional Media! In this episode we have Neil Scott talking about the internationalist outlook of a new Independent Scotland,  Ruth Hopkins on the plight of the Native American Water protectors in North Dakota and Amber Daniels on the Screams of the Traditional Media and Chuck Hamilton […]