Author Archive for Nurmi Husa

Over the course of the last half century Nurmi Husa has been a professional actor on the stage, over the airwaves and in film - as well as a designer, visual artist, writer (two books and a play), editor, director, photographer, political activist, file clerk, property manager, computer programmer and, perhaps most horrifying of all, the assistant manager of a dilapidated movie theatre in Hollywood. Oh, and a godfather. Best job of them all.

How Does the Occupy Movement Win? Easily…Because There Are More of Us Than There Ever Could be of Them

Occupy-Movement

Our just being here, confounds and enrages the 1% – and so they are frantic to make us go away. You know the mantra. They ignore us. When that doesn’t work they ridicule us. When that doesn’t work they find or invent laws to arrest us. When the jails are full and the police are exhausted what do they do then? Do they shoot us with ‘real’ bullets?

Yet Another Musing On 9/11…

Casualties of 9/11. Image from http://exiledonline.com/contagion-or-curse-you-steven-soderbergh/

Ten years ago, and non-stop ever since, I have been told that ‘we’ are totally innocent victims of a single and singularly terrible atrocity. That no one could have foreseen it or kept it from happening. That nothing like it had ever happened before in the whole history of mankind. That because of it, there were certain carefully delineated groups of people I had to hate utterly and oppose uncritically – and yet other groups of people I had to love and obey without question.