About this blog, or my first post

I'm new to reading blogs and blogging, so I don't have a definite plan for this blog yet and I'm still learning how to use Blogger. As the description says (or should say), I want to provide news and commentary, mainly on local issues, but also on national and international concerns, from a progressive, communist viewpoint in the Triangle area of North Carolina. I am blogging because I want to speak about these issues and I want to reaffirm the need for Marxist-Leninism in solving these problems. Right now I am most involved in workers' rights (such as campaigns by state, Aramark, Angelica, and farm workers, through Student Action with Workers and Triangle Jobs with Justice), environmental issues (water quality, non-native organisms, and light pollution), and electoral issues (through a Bill of Rights Defense Committee) at the local level, so I will probably concentrate in those areas for now. Anti-imperialism and climate change are my big international issues. Of course, I want to tie all of this together in arguing for overthrowing capitalism and building a socialist society. I am a member of Alliance Marxist-Leninist (www.allianceml.com) and I hope to build a branch here, but this is a personal blog and I hope it will interest people of different progressive inclinations. I'll see how regularly I can post. Thanks for visiting and I hope to have more up soon.