[Xmca-l] Re: A preliminary note

[Greg Thompson]

Maybe time to get off the ethanol and switch to solar power?

On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 9:42 PM mike cole <mcole@ucsd.edu> wrote:

> Dear Colleagues
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> How wonderful it is to see xmca come alive again. Its amazing, really.
> Locally in my privileged suburban neighbourhood, entirely unexpected,
> genuinely new forms of sociality are springing up.  As an inveterate early
> morning dog walker, it has been as if all the rains we have been getting
> (not the dreaded drought we expected in February) have re-mediated
> relations in a pro-social manner that extended out beyond the neighbourhood
> into the surrounding town.  The common interest – the common belief that
> what Beth is experiencing in Brooklyn awaits them and their families. So
> better start developing some solidarity.
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> And what brought about this change?  The INeffciency of neo-liberal
> Capitalism that indeed is killing people and is doing it in a manner
> designed by the 1%. Right now. Never mind the miracles of post-industrial
> modernity. And the poor/powerless/subordinated are getting ground into
> sausage. Bernie Sanders is being celebrated for having made his program of
> socialist reform precisely because the bastion of neo-liberal capitalism
> has revealed itself in a way that everyone recognizes. Now what? Or as they
> asked in a different time and place, what is to be done?
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> Your note, today, David, caught the MCA board in the middle of a longer
> note spelling out a variety of changes that MCA is making to confront this
> second “shock wave” that has hit our community.  A Re-generated XMCA still
> has some older shock waves to deal with and a lot of in-our-faces wreckage
> to confront. This crisis is not going away any time real soon.
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> I would like to respond more fully to the questions Greg raised and DAvid
> responded to so extensively. But no more ethanol in the tank.
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> Thanks, Helen, for your invocation to the life of this fragile community.
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> Like all of you, I will be back as life permits.
>
> mike
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> landslide. Roy D'Andrade
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