Sketchy Thoughts: 2013 Prisoner Strikes

For more news about the 2013 prisoner strikes, see: Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition California Prison Focus The Rock Newsletter Some background documents: The New Boss Looks A Lot Like The Old Boss (by Ed Mead, March 2012) The 2011 Hunger Strikes Remembered: Resistance Against Neocolonial Imprisonment and Torture (Kersplebedeb,

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the woodshed: Adios Ernesto

RIP Ernest Hemingway July 21, 1899 – July 2,  1961 Your reading assignments for today are: Hemingway’s 1954 Nobel acceptance speech And this: What Lured Hemingway to Ketchum? By Hunter S. ThompsonNational Observer, May 25, 1964  KETCHUM, IDAHO“That poor old man. He used to walk out there on the road

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the woodshed: Adios Ernesto

RIP Ernest Hemingway July 21, 1899 – July 2,  1961 Your reading assignments for today are: Hemingway’s 1954 Nobel acceptance speech And this: What Lured Hemingway to Ketchum? By Hunter S. ThompsonNational Observer, May 25, 1964  KETCHUM, IDAHO“That poor old man. He used to walk out there on the road

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