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Robert Wolf

Robert Wolf
Location
Decorah, Iowa, USA
Birthday
May 11
Title
Executive Direcctor
Company
Free River Press
Bio
A former Chicago Tribune columnist, Robert Wolf is executive director of Free River Press (freeriverpress.org), a non-profit publishing house whose primary purpose is to gather people without literary ambition into FRP writing workshops to document their lives. He is producer of "American Mosaic with Robert Wolf" (americanmosaic.org), a weekly half-hour radio program distributed nationally by Pacifica. His books include An American Mosaic: Prose and Poetry by Everyday Folk and Jump Start: How to Write from Everyday Life.

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JANUARY 2, 2012 10:02PM

The Demon of Party

America is faced with what is perhaps an intractable situation. The list of our country’s crises is almost mind numbing. Perhaps for this reason people still cling to our political party system, which is now so venomous, hoping that it will somehow rectify itself and begin working for our count… Read full post »

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JANUARY 2, 2012 8:06PM

Whose Game Do We Play? Theirs or Ours?

Lewis Mumford called America’s military-industrial complex a megamachine, meaning “big machine.” Like a giant machine our system is composed of interlocking subsystems or functions, including transportation, banking and finance, education, government, housing and more. Each is and h… Read full post »

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NOVEMBER 17, 2011 4:35PM

Powder Kegs

POWDER KEGS

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Robert Wolf

 

Nineteenth century industrialist and robber baron Jay Gould boasted, “I can hire one half the working class to kill the other half."

           Gould’s boast came at a time when industrialists co

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