HCS considers sports tourism partnership – WMBF
HCS considers sports tourism partnershipWMBFOn Monday night, a small committee of board members and school officials met for the very first Financial Committee meeting. While they discussed facts and figures surrounding budgets and audits, the committee also read a memorandum for the first time …and more »
Russell Brand on How Capitalism Silences the Inherent Human Desire for Fairness (Truthdig)
_I believe in change, personal change most of all," Russell Brand writes. "Know, too, that I have seen what fame and fortune have to offer and I know it’s not the answer. Of course, I have to change as an individual and part of that will be sharing wealth, though without systemic change, that will be a sweet, futile gesture." Dooley Productions / Shutterstock.com _
"I know, I know. I’m rich, I’m famous, I have money, I have had private security on and off for years," comedian Russell Brand acknowledges in a recent article for The Guardian as he discusses the need to abolish the guard labor that protects the rich. However, he goes on to concede, "There is no doubt that I as much as anyone have to change. Revolution is change."
And perhaps this is what is so appealing about Brand's paradoxically lofty yet accessible prose and overall flamboyant persona: his willingness to admit that a revolution must happen at all levels of society, even if that means sacrificing the privilege that he, among many others, reaps disproportionate benefits from. The Guardian article is an edited excerpt from the entertainer's new …
