Wat Tyler Day

Submitted by David in Atlanta on 20 June, 2008 - 16:09.

A bit rambling, like most of Linebaugh's work, but fun for history geeks, again like most of his work

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Wat Tyler Day

By PETER LINEBAUGH

May Day this year I was in Bristol speaking on Magna Carta to the Radical History Society which is underpinned by some of the men and women footballers, netballers, and cricketers called the Easton Cowboys. And I met with friends to exchange views on ‘the commons’ or commoning, treating the idea as a protection or as a response to the cupidity of our privatizing times. But we didn’t get as far as we’d hoped.

And now here it is mid-June: the summer heat’s approaching, gasoline is high, homes are being foreclosed, the prisons are stuffed, and the G8 is up to no good in Tokyo. June ‘teenth in American history was the day when news of the Emancipation Proclamation reached Texas, June 19th 1865, two and a half years late, and it makes me think about a similar day in English history, June 15th, almost an emancipation.

http://www.counterpunch.org/linebaugh06132008.html

24 June, 2008 - 12:54

Doh 2!

24 June, 2008 - 12:54

Doh!

1 July, 2008 - 10:23

the bristol radical history groups last event 'Down with the Fences: Struggle for the Global Commons', which pete linebaugh spoke at, is archived here:

http://www.brh.org.uk/dwtf2008/index.html

there's stuff by massimo de angelis and george caffentzis amongst others too.pretty interesting stuff, worth a listen

3 July, 2008 - 00:06

thanks stuffit, thats a very cool site.