25 May 2009

this and that



Last night I finally got around to baking vegan challah with black sesame seeds, recipe courtesy of the PPK. It turned out a bit too whole-wheaty and the banana had more of a presence then I would have liked it to have, but Joel and Francine are both into it. It was my first time baking bread without a machine.


"381: Turncoat


A well-known activist—an anarchic, revolutionary activist—is accused of spying on other activists for the FBI. The strangest thing about the rumor is, it's true. How Brandon Darby transformed from cop-hater to federal witness. Plus, a story by Etgar Keret, about a boy who betrays his people with a pair of shoes."
- thisamericanlife.org


Brandon Darby, who worked with Common Ground Collective in New Orleans back when Siobhan and I were there was exposed of being an FBI informant back in September. Episode 381 of This American Life, "Turncoat", interviews him, somewhat sympathetically. Listen here There is also a story by Israeli author Etgar Keret, whom I love.

The day I got to New Orleans, Brandon Darby gave me a book about control units/solitary confinements in prisons. I didn't know much about him, but this news was still somewhat bizarre to me considering his supposed stance back in 2007.

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