Comments for Hak Pak Sak http://hakpaksak.wordpress.com Stephen Lewis on Infrastructure, Identity, Communication, and Change Sat, 17 May 2008 19:50:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU Comment on Rev. Wright and a Yiddish Song: The Hyperbole of Rage, The Banality of Apologies, the Absurdity of Race by Boggs Center http://hakpaksak.wordpress.com/2008/04/06/pastor-wright-and-the-green-cousin-the-hyperbole-of-rage-the-banality-of-apologies-the-absurdity-of-race/#comment-1036 Boggs Center Mon, 12 May 2008 16:35:13 +0000 http://hakpaksak.wordpress.com/?p=54#comment-1036 Learn more about Grace Lee Boggs and her work with the Boggs Center and Detroit City of Hope at the Boggs Center Blog, Unending Conversations of Hope: http://conversationsthatyouwillneverfinish.wordpress.com/ And at the Boggs Center website: http://www.boggscenter.org/ Learn more about Grace Lee Boggs and her work with the Boggs Center and Detroit City of Hope at the Boggs Center Blog, Unending Conversations of Hope:
http://conversationsthatyouwillneverfinish.wordpress.com/

And at the Boggs Center website:
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]]> Comment on Queen’s Day, May Day: Tonight the Wilhelmus, Tomorrow the Internationale by The Infrastructure of Repression: Repression of Infrastructure « Hak Pak Sak http://hakpaksak.wordpress.com/2008/04/30/royalty-may-day-and-the-arrogance-of-rulers/#comment-1025 The Infrastructure of Repression: Repression of Infrastructure « Hak Pak Sak Sat, 03 May 2008 09:11:39 +0000 http://hakpaksak.wordpress.com/?p=59#comment-1025 [...] Comments (RSS) « Queen’s Day, May Day: Tonight the Wilhelmus, Tomorrow the Internationale [...] [...] Comments (RSS) « Queen’s Day, May Day: Tonight the Wilhelmus, Tomorrow the Internationale [...]

]]> Comment on Books and Beer, Soft-Soap and a Wooden Leg, Content and Clients, and ‘Cluetrain’+10 by Infrastructural Links: Linux Journal, R.Crumb, NPR, Insightful Weblogs, and Good Old-Fashioned NYC Rage « Hak Pak Sak http://hakpaksak.wordpress.com/2008/02/12/beer-and-books-soft-soap-and-a-wooden-leg-content-and-clients/#comment-1015 Infrastructural Links: Linux Journal, R.Crumb, NPR, Insightful Weblogs, and Good Old-Fashioned NYC Rage « Hak Pak Sak Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:31:30 +0000 http://hakpaksak.wordpress.com/?p=48#comment-1015 [...] in honor of the 10th anniversary of the conception of the business best-seller Cluetrain Manifesto (see the final paragraphs of this post) I suggested that people who are obsessed with free and unwilling to support public radio, small [...] [...] in honor of the 10th anniversary of the conception of the business best-seller Cluetrain Manifesto (see the final paragraphs of this post) I suggested that people who are obsessed with free and unwilling to support public radio, small [...]

]]> Comment on Rev. Wright and a Yiddish Song: The Hyperbole of Rage, The Banality of Apologies, the Absurdity of Race by Infrastructural Links: Linux Journal, R.Crumb, NPR, Insightful Weblogs, and Good Old-Fashioned NYC Rage « Hak Pak Sak http://hakpaksak.wordpress.com/2008/04/06/pastor-wright-and-the-green-cousin-the-hyperbole-of-rage-the-banality-of-apologies-the-absurdity-of-race/#comment-1006 Infrastructural Links: Linux Journal, R.Crumb, NPR, Insightful Weblogs, and Good Old-Fashioned NYC Rage « Hak Pak Sak Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:01:32 +0000 http://hakpaksak.wordpress.com/?p=54#comment-1006 [...] link together Doc and my nascent conversations on infrastructure with the piece I recently wrote on Rev. Wright and the Hyperbole of Rage. As a born-and-raised New Yorker, I recognize in Williams’s piece on venture capital a [...] [...] link together Doc and my nascent conversations on infrastructure with the piece I recently wrote on Rev. Wright and the Hyperbole of Rage. As a born-and-raised New Yorker, I recognize in Williams’s piece on venture capital a [...]

]]> Comment on Turkish WordPress Ban Appears to Be Lifted: Religion, Secularism, Democracy, Web Neutrality, and Infrastructure by Infrastructural Links: Linux Journal, R.Crumb, NPR, Insightful Weblogs, and Good Old-Fashioned NYC Rage « Hak Pak Sak http://hakpaksak.wordpress.com/2008/04/23/turkish-wordpress-ban-appears-to-be-lifted-religion-secularism-democracy-web-neutrality-and-infrastructure/#comment-1005 Infrastructural Links: Linux Journal, R.Crumb, NPR, Insightful Weblogs, and Good Old-Fashioned NYC Rage « Hak Pak Sak Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:00:06 +0000 http://hakpaksak.wordpress.com/?p=56#comment-1005 [...] Comments (RSS) « Turkish Wordpress Ban Appears to Be Lifted: Religion, Secularism, Democracy, Web Neutrality, and&nbs... [...] [...] Comments (RSS) « Turkish WordPress Ban Appears to Be Lifted: Religion, Secularism, Democracy, Web Neutrality, and&nbs… [...]

]]> Comment on Byzantine Walls, Ottoman Dungeons, Genoese Towers, and a Little-Known Firewall: Turkey’s Ban on WordPress and HakPakSak by Turkish Wordpress Ban Appears to Be Lifted — Religion, Secularism, Democracy, Web Neutrality, and Infrastructure « Hak Pak Sak http://hakpaksak.wordpress.com/2007/11/05/byzantine-walls-genoese-walls-and-a-little-known-firewall-turkeys-ban-on-wordpress-and-hakpaksak/#comment-1002 Turkish Wordpress Ban Appears to Be Lifted — Religion, Secularism, Democracy, Web Neutrality, and Infrastructure « Hak Pak Sak Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:08:13 +0000 http://hakpaksak.wordpress.com/2007/11/05/byzantine-walls-genoese-walls-and-a-little-known-firewall-turkeys-ban-on-wordpress-and-hakpaksak/#comment-1002 [...] Posted by Stephen Lewis on April 23, 2008 I am writing this entry from Istanbul. From early 2007 until quite recently this had not been possible. HakPakSak, together with approximately 1.5 other sites hosted by Wordpress, had been blocked in Turkey, this the result of a weblog-based spat between two Islamic “creationists” (i.e. opponents of Darwin’s theory of evolution) both with links to their fundamentalist Protestant equivalents in the US. A law suit by one of the protagonists against the other led to an order from the district court of an ultra-religious quarter of Istanbul to block from view in Turkey all weblog site containing the word “wordpress” in their URLs from being viewed in Turkey. Unquestioning bureaucratic compliance with the court order followed. (Click here for a longer post on the subject). [...] [...] Posted by Stephen Lewis on April 23, 2008 I am writing this entry from Istanbul. From early 2007 until quite recently this had not been possible. HakPakSak, together with approximately 1.5 other sites hosted by WordPress, had been blocked in Turkey, this the result of a weblog-based spat between two Islamic “creationists” (i.e. opponents of Darwin’s theory of evolution) both with links to their fundamentalist Protestant equivalents in the US. A law suit by one of the protagonists against the other led to an order from the district court of an ultra-religious quarter of Istanbul to block from view in Turkey all weblog site containing the word “wordpress” in their URLs from being viewed in Turkey. Unquestioning bureaucratic compliance with the court order followed. (Click here for a longer post on the subject). [...]

]]> Comment on Rev. Wright and a Yiddish Song: The Hyperbole of Rage, The Banality of Apologies, the Absurdity of Race by Doc Searls http://hakpaksak.wordpress.com/2008/04/06/pastor-wright-and-the-green-cousin-the-hyperbole-of-rage-the-banality-of-apologies-the-absurdity-of-race/#comment-998 Doc Searls Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:23:08 +0000 http://hakpaksak.wordpress.com/?p=54#comment-998 I remember too. We were all there. As I recall I was living then, or at least staying, at various places down on Walker and Spring Garden Streets. That time and place -- mid-Spring in Greensboro, even then one of several Ground Zeros of the civil rights movement -- was strangely bucolic, scary and absurd. Guilford College was also an odd mix of radicals, pacifists, academics and good old boys and girls. Anyway, what I remember most about that time was the despair that followed the shootings of MLK and RFK. Some assassinations do achieve their objectives. Those certainly did. The sense of futility that followed has never been relieved. This is why to me the Obama campaign is so important. That a son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas can be elected on true merits regardless of his race can go far toward exposing "the absurdity of race." And of our obsessions with it. I remember too. We were all there.

As I recall I was living then, or at least staying, at various places down on Walker and Spring Garden Streets. That time and place — mid-Spring in Greensboro, even then one of several Ground Zeros of the civil rights movement — was strangely bucolic, scary and absurd. Guilford College was also an odd mix of radicals, pacifists, academics and good old boys and girls.

Anyway, what I remember most about that time was the despair that followed the shootings of MLK and RFK. Some assassinations do achieve their objectives. Those certainly did. The sense of futility that followed has never been relieved.

This is why to me the Obama campaign is so important. That a son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas can be elected on true merits regardless of his race can go far toward exposing “the absurdity of race.” And of our obsessions with it.

]]> Comment on Rev. Wright and a Yiddish Song: The Hyperbole of Rage, The Banality of Apologies, the Absurdity of Race by tom http://hakpaksak.wordpress.com/2008/04/06/pastor-wright-and-the-green-cousin-the-hyperbole-of-rage-the-banality-of-apologies-the-absurdity-of-race/#comment-996 tom Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:23:05 +0000 http://hakpaksak.wordpress.com/?p=54#comment-996 Steve, I remember the curfew. The National Guard constructed a check point with sandbags on Friendly Ave at the entrance to Guilford College. The guardsmen were armed and there was a machine gun in the makeshift check point. Steve,
I remember the curfew. The National Guard constructed a check point with sandbags on Friendly Ave at the entrance to Guilford College. The guardsmen were armed and there was a machine gun in the makeshift check point.

]]> Comment on Balkan-Wards: Falling Dollar, Faulty Infrastructure, and the Lessons of the Bulgarian Lev by The US Economy, a Balkan Backwater, the IMF and the EU « Hak Pak Sak http://hakpaksak.wordpress.com/2007/08/18/balkan-wards-falling-dollar-faulty-infrastructure-and-the-lessons-of-the-bulgarian-lev/#comment-989 The US Economy, a Balkan Backwater, the IMF and the EU « Hak Pak Sak Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:29:22 +0000 http://hakpaksak.wordpress.com/2007/08/18/balkan-wards-falling-dollar-faulty-infrastructure-and-the-lessons-of-the-bulgarian-lev/#comment-989 [...] by Stephen Lewis on April 4, 2008 Last August, in an entry entitled Balkan-Wards: Falling Dollar, Faulty Infrastructure, and the Lessons of the Bulgarian Lev, I noted that the US dollar had not only sunk below the Euro but was plummeting towards parity [...] [...] by Stephen Lewis on April 4, 2008 Last August, in an entry entitled Balkan-Wards: Falling Dollar, Faulty Infrastructure, and the Lessons of the Bulgarian Lev, I noted that the US dollar had not only sunk below the Euro but was plummeting towards parity [...]

]]> Comment on Byzantine Walls, Ottoman Dungeons, Genoese Towers, and a Little-Known Firewall: Turkey’s Ban on WordPress and HakPakSak by 42nd and 5th: Architectural Photography, Global Cities, and Working Class New York « Hak Pak Sak http://hakpaksak.wordpress.com/2007/11/05/byzantine-walls-genoese-walls-and-a-little-known-firewall-turkeys-ban-on-wordpress-and-hakpaksak/#comment-970 42nd and 5th: Architectural Photography, Global Cities, and Working Class New York « Hak Pak Sak Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:24:02 +0000 http://hakpaksak.wordpress.com/2007/11/05/byzantine-walls-genoese-walls-and-a-little-known-firewall-turkeys-ban-on-wordpress-and-hakpaksak/#comment-970 [...] For the next several weeks I will be in Istanbul, Turkey. Because of the Turkish ban on Wordpress.Com I might not be able to post to this site while there. I will certainly be posting to Bubkes.Org, so [...] [...] For the next several weeks I will be in Istanbul, Turkey. Because of the Turkish ban on WordPress.Com I might not be able to post to this site while there. I will certainly be posting to Bubkes.Org, so [...]

]]> Comment on Dizzy Gillespie, Ignacz Paderewski, Sonny Rollins, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Vito Marcantonio, and the Benjamin Franklin High School Riots of 1946 by Stephen Lewis http://hakpaksak.wordpress.com/2008/02/06/dizzy-gillespie-ignacz-paderewski-sonny-rollins-frank-sinatra-nat-king-cole-vito-marcantonio-and-the-benjamin-franklin-high-school-riots-of-1946/#comment-942 Stephen Lewis Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:18:58 +0000 http://hakpaksak.wordpress.com/?p=47#comment-942 Sandra. Thanks for your comment and for taking my site seriously enough to contact me. I will certainly re-check my facts, first by looking in the NY Times index (which I maybe should have done at the beginning). What I wrote was based on oral communications from a musician who had heard the story from Sonny Rollins and from one Italian-American musician who was a student at the school at the time; the events are also described in the book I mentioned in my posting. If I am wrong about the founding of the school or any details of the events of 1946, please give me the correct details. Also, please tell me more about the principal of the school and about the early integration of the school if you can. Note that Vito Marcantonio is one of my special New York heroes as is his Jewish equivalent from the Lower East Side, Meyer London; I plan to write more about both. Both have been largely forgotten as the communities each served move up the social ladder and out into middle class America. Stephen Sandra. Thanks for your comment and for taking my site seriously enough to contact me. I will certainly re-check my facts, first by looking in the NY Times index (which I maybe should have done at the beginning). What I wrote was based on oral communications from a musician who had heard the story from Sonny Rollins and from one Italian-American musician who was a student at the school at the time; the events are also described in the book I mentioned in my posting. If I am wrong about the founding of the school or any details of the events of 1946, please give me the correct details. Also, please tell me more about the principal of the school and about the early integration of the school if you can. Note that Vito Marcantonio is one of my special New York heroes as is his Jewish equivalent from the Lower East Side, Meyer London; I plan to write more about both. Both have been largely forgotten as the communities each served move up the social ladder and out into middle class America. Stephen

]]> Comment on Dizzy Gillespie, Ignacz Paderewski, Sonny Rollins, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Vito Marcantonio, and the Benjamin Franklin High School Riots of 1946 by Sandra Rufolo http://hakpaksak.wordpress.com/2008/02/06/dizzy-gillespie-ignacz-paderewski-sonny-rollins-frank-sinatra-nat-king-cole-vito-marcantonio-and-the-benjamin-franklin-high-school-riots-of-1946/#comment-941 Sandra Rufolo Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:07:45 +0000 http://hakpaksak.wordpress.com/?p=47#comment-941 Your rendition of Benjamin Franklin High School, if you are referring to the same high school my father attended in 1937, I believe about the time the community-driven school was started by its principal and social activist Leonard Covello. African Americans attended from the start with no incident of racial problems. I have proof of it because I have my father's yearbook. Check the history of the school. Your rendition of Benjamin Franklin High School, if you are referring to the same high school my father attended in 1937, I believe about the time the community-driven school was started by its principal and social activist Leonard Covello. African Americans attended from the start with no incident of racial problems. I have proof of it because I have my father’s yearbook. Check the history of the school.

]]> Comment on Dizzy Gillespie, Ignacz Paderewski, Sonny Rollins, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Vito Marcantonio, and the Benjamin Franklin High School Riots of 1946 by Amiek http://hakpaksak.wordpress.com/2008/02/06/dizzy-gillespie-ignacz-paderewski-sonny-rollins-frank-sinatra-nat-king-cole-vito-marcantonio-and-the-benjamin-franklin-high-school-riots-of-1946/#comment-935 Amiek Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:37:58 +0000 http://hakpaksak.wordpress.com/?p=47#comment-935 Dizzy for president would have been great. Wasn't there a country and western singer who became mayor of some town? In holland we have some musicians turned politician. Most (in)famous is Henk Westbroek of Het Goede Doel (they had the hit Belgie in the eightees) who is in the city council of Utrecht. Andre Hazes was in the city council of "Ronde Veenen" and flutist Berdien Stenberg is in the city council of Almere. I wouldn't vote for any of them, but that's a different story. Dizzy for president would have been great. Wasn’t there a country and western singer who became mayor of some town? In holland we have some musicians turned politician. Most (in)famous is Henk Westbroek of Het Goede Doel (they had the hit Belgie in the eightees) who is in the city council of Utrecht. Andre Hazes was in the city council of “Ronde Veenen” and flutist Berdien Stenberg is in the city council of Almere. I wouldn’t vote for any of them, but that’s a different story.

]]> Comment on An Obama Endorsement and … “Vote for Jordan for President!” by Dizzy Gillespie, Ignacz Paderewski, Sonny Rollins, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Vito Marcantonio, and the Benjamin Franklin High School Riots of 1946 « Hak Pak Sak http://hakpaksak.wordpress.com/2008/02/02/vote-for-jordan-for-president/#comment-925 Dizzy Gillespie, Ignacz Paderewski, Sonny Rollins, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Vito Marcantonio, and the Benjamin Franklin High School Riots of 1946 « Hak Pak Sak Tue, 05 Feb 2008 23:50:38 +0000 http://hakpaksak.wordpress.com/?p=46#comment-925 [...] Comments (RSS) « An Obama Endorsement and … “Vote for Jordan for President!” [...] [...] Comments (RSS) « An Obama Endorsement and … “Vote for Jordan for President!” [...]

]]> Comment on Library Access, the Limits of the Web, and the Shelling of Sarajevo by TUDO CANOS VAZIOS « drama pessoal http://hakpaksak.wordpress.com/2007/06/19/library-access-the-internet-and-the-shelling-of-sarajevo/#comment-859 TUDO CANOS VAZIOS « drama pessoal Tue, 08 Jan 2008 03:33:30 +0000 http://hakpaksak.wordpress.com/2007/06/19/library-access-the-internet-and-the-shelling-of-sarajevo/#comment-859 [...] que se lhe pareça (temos muito pouco em papel e em geral). Um bom começo poderá ser o artigo «Library Access, the Limits of the Web, and the Shelling of Sarajevo», um apanhado limpo e drástico da má qualidade arquivística da Internet no presente, lembrando [...] [...] que se lhe pareça (temos muito pouco em papel e em geral). Um bom começo poderá ser o artigo «Library Access, the Limits of the Web, and the Shelling of Sarajevo», um apanhado limpo e drástico da má qualidade arquivística da Internet no presente, lembrando [...]

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