On my old profile

I've been thinking about rewriting my profile, and editing some other parts of this blog, but I wanted to keep some of the information around, so I'm posting the current version here:

I am a Durham native and graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill after studying biology and anthropology.  I am distantly related to Irish bourgeois democratic revolutionary Thomas Francis Meagher, who was also a US general during the Civil War and an acting governor of territorial Montana.  I was a member of AML, which dissolved around 2008 – 2012.  I worked with USMLO's Voice of Revolution newspaper locally for several years without being a member.  I joined the NC Green Party several years ago for electoral work.  Unless otherwise stated, my posts don't represent any group.  My profile image is an uncommon pinxterflower that grew near the edge of RTP in Durham for probably more than 20 years, but that bush and the entire population were seemingly killed by Duke Energy, though they knew about the flowers.  The next nearest pinxterflowers I know of are miles away, so unless there are surviving sprouts or seeds, these rare azaleas are probably not going to return there anytime soon (see my 9/8/2018 DS post).  I reserve the copyright on content I created while other content is posted with permission or under fair use.  I rarely check the listed email. 

I think previous versions gave a few different personal details, covered other groups I worked with and historical figures, and advocated policies.  Most of the time it was minimal and is longer now.  I'm not sure about posting the other profiles again here, though they are still online.  I had to check to see what I had posted previously.

I'm not sure if these versions were all actually posted:

I was born and raised in Durham. I studied biology and anthropology at UNC-Chapel Hill and since then I have done both blue and white collar work, for government and private employers. My profile photo shows Phat Ryan/Rockin' Ruben, the cardinal sculpture in Durham's Central Park.

This might have been posted February 8, 2008:

I was born and raised in Durham. As a communist, I am for a revolutionary democratic working class government that will steadily build socialism. Some steps would be to expropriate Big Business, turning it over to its workers to run within a democratically planned and sustainable economy, end “free trade,” encourage cooperatives, and nationalize land. Government should be open, the anti-democratic “national security state” should be smashed, the people armed, the legislature supreme, and officials should be elected, recallable, and paid like workers. It must support self-determination for all nations, including those in the USA, like Puerto Rico. I support enlarging the Bill of Rights, ending the second class citizenship of LGBT people and other minorities, abolishing the death penalty, preserving biodiversity, fighting climate change with renewable and nuclear power, space development, legalizing industrial hemp and ending the “War on Drugs.” 

I am an anti-revisionist Marxist-Leninist, supporting revolutionary communist leaders such as Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Enver Hoxha (Albania), and Bill Bland (UK) [I could add AML's Hari Kumar]. I also admire bourgeois revolutionaries such as Thomas Jefferson.

I was born and raised in Durham and studied biology and anthropology at UNC-Chapel Hill and since then have worked for private and government employers. I am distantly related to Irish bourgeois democratic revolutionary Thomas Francis Meagher, who was also a Union [or Federal] general during the Civil War and a territorial governor of Montana. I was a member of Alliance Marxist-Leninist, but since its dissolution in about 2008 I have worked with groups such as USMLO and PCUSA, though I am not a member. In electoral politics I support the Green Party, the closest thing to a left alternative in North Carolina, though punitive rules have kept it off the ballot. This blog covers a variety of issues, but I am most interested in conservation, labor and economic issues, civil liberties and democratic rights, and fighting imperialism, beginning with US imperialism. My profile photo shows appropriately crimson Phat Ryan/Rockin' Ruben, the cardinal sculpture in the Durham Central Park. My email is listed, but I don't check it very often, so if I reply, it might take a long time.  

For several years I used a late December 2009 image of 'appropriately crimson' Phat Ryan/Rockin' Ruben (there was a dispute about the name), a sculpture of a male Northern cardinal in Durham Central Park, for my profile.  I think that was the first image.  Cardinals, also called "red birds" or "redbirds," though only adult males are so showy in scarlet and black, are North Carolina's state bird.  

The current image, added a few years ago, shows the large, old, possibly ill-fated pinxterflower near Research Triangle Park blooming one evening in late April 2013.  I've thought about posting a photo essay of pinxterflowers I know of in the Triangle in bloom some spring.  The flowers remind me of East Asian higanbana/red spider lilies and pink magic lilies (genus Lycoris, in the Amaryllis family, as apparently are daffodils, soon to bloom or maybe already starting here, since it was an unusually mild January).  I might add to this post later on.  

The Phat Ryan/Rockin' Ruben male cardinal sculpture in Durham Central Park around Christmas 2009 ©.

A large pinxterflower, Rhododendron periclymenoides, a native deciduous azalea, flowering near RTP in Durham in late April 2013 ©.