by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Oct 29, 2020 | Bad Advertising, death, Discursive Gap, Fake Freedoms, Industrial Epidemics, pollution, Public Health, Tobacco Industry
From Erasmus Magazine’s misrepresentative title “Smoke-free campus: responsible decision or counter-productive?” for the very pro smokefree campus comments from students actually interviewed in the article to the irresponsible and juvenile “Free to Smoke Zone”...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Oct 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
An short article I wrote zooming out on the Black Lives Matter movement – “Decolonization Matters” – has just appeared in the journal Kosmos: Journal for Global Transformation. There I write The “white fragility” fear that the oppressed will...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Aug 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
It’s a thing. Like greenwashing, whitewashing, or astroturfing. Bee-washing is big business. It’s how companies fool us into consuming more: by appeasing our sense of guilt beforehand. It’s almost like they tried to reverse engineer our resistant...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jul 5, 2020 | Decolonization, exploitation, Music
I’m a jazz fan and player, and during the corona quarantine I started reaching beyond my normal playlist, and found the amazing work of Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah after stumbling across his stunning NPR Tiny Desk Concert. (If you don’t know this...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jul 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
@24:37 Friedman quoting/paraphrasing Lenin. Classic. In a film created by Johnson and Johnson heir Jamie Johnson. Irony doesn’t get sweeter than...