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Phillip Bannowsky is an autoworker, activist, international educator, poet, and monologist living in Newark, Delaware. His works include The Mother Earth Inn: a novel (Broken Turtle Books, 2007), Autoplant: A Poetic Monolgue (Broken Turtle Books, 2007), The Milk of Human Kindness (poetry, Dreamstreets Press, 1986), and Arabia and the American Dream: An Autoworkers Lebanon Sojourn, (monologue, 2004). He is a member of the News Journal (Delaware) Community Advisory Board and publishes columns specializing in South America and the Labor Movement. He retired from Chrysler in 2001, has taught in Ecuador and Lebanon, and currently he teaches English at the University of Delaware

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(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, April 4, 2011
A University, Poetry, and Blue Collar Jobs Phillip Bannowsky takes the occasion of the 2nd edition of his Autoplant: a Poetic Monologue to comment on how the University of Delaware acquired the closed Chrysler Assembly plant in Newark, Delaware and contributed to the demise of blue-collar jobs.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, July 12, 2010
The Commie Bar of Beirut It is part nostalgia, part tongue-in-cheek, part history lesson, and part revolutionary space in the heart of the Caracas District of West Beirut, tagged by we Americans as "Commie Bar," actually called Pub Naya or Abou Elie's.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, July 12, 2010
The Commie Bar of Beirut It is part nostalgia, part tongue-in-cheek, part history lesson, and part revolutionary space in the heart of the Caracas District of West Beirut, tagged by we Americans as "Commie Bar," actually called Pub Naya or Abou Elie's.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, July 5, 2010
Wavin World Cup Flags in Beirut and Palestinian Camps Traveling in Lebanon, Phillip Bannowsky examines how perennial battles are playing out in the lives of ordinary Lebanese and Palestinians against the backdrop of the World Cup and it's official theme song "Wavin' Flag, written and performed by Somali Canadian rapper and poet K'Naan, but sanitized in this Coca Cola promotion version
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, June 6, 2010
Memoir: Grumbling and Ruminating Phillip Bannowsky reviews Ben Yagoda's Memoir: A History to ask if the memoir genre is a self-indulgent product of "the over-corporatized literary marketplace." Is it true, Bannowsky askes, that memoir "is to literature as infotainment is to news"?
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, January 16, 2010
Avatar and the Destruction of Haiti Rightist like David Brooks seize on the weaknesses in James Cameron's Avatar to accuse Americans in solidarity with the wretched of the earth of self-aggrandizing fantasies. They draw on the critique of Ezili Danto, but ignore her expose of the crimes of imperialism against countries like her native Haiti.
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, December 13, 2009
Arts and Civil Society on Maggie's Farm Phillip Bannowsky, team author of Broken Turtle Blog, calls for U.S. civil society, the arena of uncoerced collective action, to develop a common vision that challenges corporate power.
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(7 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Capitalism Produces Rich Bankers, but Socialism Produces Happiness Socialism is better than capitalism. So say 20 percent of Americans, and another 27 percent say they can't say which is better, according to an April 9 Rasmussen poll. There's hope.

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