# 2022-08-08

-   I am sad that [[Thatcherism]] is a thing.
    -   Listened: [[The Tory leadership race and the ghost of Margaret Thatcher]]

-   [[Commons]]
    -   Watching: [[This Land is Our Land]]

-   Listening: [[The Value of a Whale with Adrienne Buller]]

-   Reflecting that in 1976 [[The Lucas Plan]] was put together by factory workers to counter proposed job cuts.  It was based on notions of [[socially useful production]] and included things like heat pumps, wind turbines, energy efficient houses.  In 1976!

-   I watched [[The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution]] and [[The Weather Underground]] documentaries.  Almost hard to comprehend what a powder keg the 60s and 70s were in America.  The cold-blooded murder of [[Fred Hampton]] is truly shocking… words fail.

-   Also germane to think how the artwork of [[Emory Douglas]] and The Black Panther paper got the party to places where they might not otherwise have reached.