Category Archives: Plato’s Republic

pertaining to government, the public sector, governance, democracy, politics, issues pertaining to such, like “freedom of speech” concepts

COINTELPRO in Palo Alto, fall 1968 legend

Posted on July 28, 2020 by markweiss86

Yoshi Kato in PAW and Almanac has the scoop that the Thelonious Monk Palo Alto live concert produced by Danny Scher then a senior at Paly has been shelved, because of an injunction by Verve’s Record’s rivalry with another label. Not … Continue reading →

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Hanks, Hanks, ‘Hanks’ VS Oswald, Oswald, Oswald, and Oswald

Posted on July 26, 2020 by markweiss86

I hereby nominate Marc Oswald to the Cubberley Hall of Fame. Marc is a graduate of the school in the class of 1976. They were only three more classes after his to go full-term and a total of 25 classes … Continue reading →

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Vote for ‘SMEK’

Posted on July 25, 2020 by markweiss86
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Lions With Wings logo reveal

Posted on July 18, 2020 by markweiss86

By Queen Sara Saturday:

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A peaceful protester in Portland was shot in the head by one of Donald Trump’s secret police: Now Trump and Chad Wolf are weaponizing the DHS as their own occupying army to provoke violence on the streets of my hometown because they think it plays well with right-wing media.

Posted on July 17, 2020 by markweiss86

US senator and former Paly basketball star Ron Wyden via social media, Thursday, July 16, 2020 regarding Black Lives Matter bw from Anna Eshew newsletter gazing tight For what purpose, and under what legal authority, did the FBI conduct such … Continue reading →

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Should the new Palo alto police headquarters be reviewed in the light of Black Lives Matter and coronavirus?

Posted on July 12, 2020 by markweiss86

Should the new Palo alto police headquarters be reviewed in the light of Black Lives Matter and coronavirus? The answer is yes of course. I wrote separately about my dismay that the bureaucracy arbitrarily cut the guts out of the … Continue reading →

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Keith Boykin coverage of Black Lives Matter in NYC

Posted on July 11, 2020 by markweiss86

 Keith Boykin has posted numerous short videos taken with his cell phone camera of Black Lives Matter protest activity in New York City near where he lives, his exact neighborhood. Dartmouth alumni magazine circulated today an essay Keith wrote about … Continue reading →

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Robertson, Basirico, Carpio work in progress, Palo Alto, June, 2020

Posted on July 9, 2020 by markweiss86

Black Lives Matter mural, artists at work, a week ago:

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Indian mounds vs monster house, 2551 Webster at Middlefield

Posted on July 7, 2020 by markweiss86

I swung the car into Webster when I spotted the site of the plaque regarding Indian mounds of the Ohlone or coast to knowing that we’re here in 1769 when Portola arrived.  But I couldn’t find parking so I detoured … Continue reading →

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Maybe the ‘60s ended about the time it was no longer possible to be the only student in the dorm with the first album by Van Morrison and ‘Them;’ to be the only freak in your small town; to have been one of the 400,000 at Woodstock. Even by that time, everyone had been to at least one Woodstock, everyone owned a pair of hiking boots (albeit not Austrian-made), and almost everyone had climbed Everest

Posted on July 6, 2020 by markweiss86

Again, not sure where I am or how I got here. Return of the naked guy   Something about Hunter S Thompson transcript l Did I miss last call? By about 8 years? I have no idea what I’m doing … Continue reading →

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