Joe Bageant

We need to start all over again

Hi there,

You must have read hundreds of these, but here we go again. I have just read your article, "Poor, White and Pissed". It's the best fucking piece of good literature, accessible to just about any dimwit, I have read that encapsulates just about every thought I have harbored about America since I moved here in '95 from Sierra Leone, West Africa. One of my college professors forwarded it to me. And the last part, about the revolution, well here is what I have always said, it's partly informed by Bob Marley's "Revelation". I am sure you have it, if you don't go pick it up, please.

Uncle Joe’s White Trash Catfish

Dear Mr. Bageant,

Even though I feel like I know you after last Saturday's talk at the Trinity Presbyterian Church here in Denton, Texas, I was brought up by extremely well-educated but really really poor grandparents in Westminster, Vermont (town of 200 people, hasn't changed much in 73 years) who insisted on calling people "Mr." and "Mrs." so and so -- so I don't feel like I know you well enough to call you "Joe."  Though I would like to.

Organizing for Change in White Trash America

Here is the biography of Joe Bageant for the October 14-16, 2005 Peace-In at the University of Texas at Denton, where he was a speaker.

Photos of My Visit to the French Riviera

"So," you might ask, "what's a redneck Marxist doing on the French Riviera?" Well, the same thing that millions of French workers have been doing for the past three-quarter's of a century: not much, other than drinking, eating, breathing clean air, and talking to friendly folks. And, anyway, Karl Marx stayed for a month here in 1882 -- three times longer than my vacation.

Alone and persecuted in religious Iowa

Joe:

Thanks for a great and entertaining article. Here, in conservative and religious Iowa, I often feel alone, persecuted and isolated but finding opinions like yours relieves the depression and lends hope that there is an alternative. I loved your article; keep up the good work! In answer to your question: yeah, definitely he is, but are the people who control him anything more than predators comparable to the mafia!

Gale
Davenport, Iowa

Intangible plusses to being poor, marginalized

Joe,

I have read your article, "Poor, White, and Pissed." I live in the same kind of town. I couldn't agree with you more! I want to ORGANIZE, as you suggested. (I tried to get a job with the DART Center, for example, and I've asked the DART Center for assistance.) Got any ideas how to go about this? The DART Center works extensively through the churches. My impression is that most of our local churches are basically country clubs -- with no swimming pool.