Last night’s event at Eliot Bay Books in Seattle was awesome. Tonight I’ll be in beautiful Berkeley, California.
Join me at 7 pm tonight (Thursday) for a Project Censored event at the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists. The address is 1924 Cedar at Bonita, Berkeley, CA 94709.
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If you have an opportunity get out to Telegraph Avenue. It’s a progressive haven.
I just visited Telegraph Avenue a couple of weeks ago. Signs of Progressive Ideology were everywhere I looked: There were book stores, record stores, restaurants, head shops and a bankrupt Beard Papa’s. It was wall-to-wall shops and shoppers. Plus there’s a street bazaar going on with folks selling t-shirts and buttons. There was so much buying and selling going on that I spent too much money on CDs and didn’t have enough left over for the “Fuck Capitalism” t-shirt I spotted in a display window.
How is this orgy of commerce a progressive haven? Well, it’s not a mall: You can buy things there that you can’t buy anywhere else. It doesn’t provide a shopping experience that’s identical to every other shopping experience on the globe. It hearkens back to a day when shopping was fun and involved discovery.
Also there were a few homeless people begging for change. You know how much Progressives and business people love that.