The Digger Concept of ‘Free’ by Peter Coyote + Diggers fed the masses + The Diggers Songs

1960s: Days of Rage by-peter-coyote/ shared with thanks February 16, 2022

“The original Digger movement began in England in April of 1649. Oliver ‘Ironsides’ Cromwell, executioner of King Charles I, was now the protector of the empire.

Cromwell had participated in the great insurgency that established constitutional monarchy in Britain.

For many of his followers, however, this was not enough.

Gerrard Winstanley, a London cloth merchant and dissenting Christian, published a pamphlet, ‘Truth Lifting up Its Head Above the Scandals’, which established what became the basic principles of anarchy: that power corrupts; private property and freedom are mutually exclusive; and only in a society without rulers can people be free to act according to their consciences.

His pamphlet The Law of Freedom in a Platform was dedicated to Cromwell. …

The Digger Free Store

The San Francisco Diggers originated in the conjunction of the visionary acuity of Billy Murcott, a reclusive childhood friend of Emmett Grogran’s, and Emmett’s own genius as an actor and his flair for public theater.

Billy had intuited that people had internalized cultural premises about the sanctity of private property and capital so completely as to have become addicted to wealth and status; the enchantment ran so deep and the identity with job was so absolute as to have eradicated inner wildness and personal expression not condoned by society. …

From the Digger perspective, ideological analysis was often one more means of delaying the action necessary to manifest an alternative.

Furthermore, ideological perspectives always devalue individuals and serve as the justification to sacrifice them when the ideology is threatened.

As a case in point, consider Robert McNamara, sacrificing a generation of youth in Vietnam after concluding that the war was pointless, because he did not want to tarnish the dignity of the nation’s leaders by criticizing them.

We used to joke among ourselves that the Diggers would be ‘put up against the wall’ not by the FBI or other forces of domestic oppression but by our peers on the Left who would readily sacrifice anyone who created impediments to their power and authority. …”
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Diggers fed the masses with ‘free’ as their mantra

Jonathan Kauffman San Francisco Chronicle

March 10, 2017Updated: Jan. 19, 2018 10:24 a.m.

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One day in October 1966, freaks on Haight Street found themselves clutching mimeographed flyers that some unknown passerby had pressed into their hands. It read: “Free food. Good hot stew. Ripe tomatoes. Fresh fruit. Bring a bowl and spoon to the Panhandle at Ashbury Street. 4PM 4PM 4PM 4PM. Free food everyday free food. It’s free because it’s yours.”

Nuclear Weapons: Just One stray Missile Could Blast Us To Pre-Industrial Times!

introduction nuclear weapons Physics

Red Cross estimates that over a billion people in developing countries would face starvation, and because much of the modern world relies on global food supply chains, famines would rock the developed world as well.⁴

The mushroom cloud of the first hydrogen bomb¹

We’ve seen the clips. A clear blue sky suddenly filled with a mushroom cloud of smoke and the resounding boom of the explosion. But if you’ve noticed, most of these clips are very old, often dating back many decades. Modern nuclear weapons have achieved staggering heights of destructive power.

A single malfunction in the central technology controlling nuclear missile launch could launch a US nuclear attack at Shanghai, killing upwards of 30 million people – millions more than the 20 million total deaths (military and civilian) in World War 1.²

But what is it that makes nukes so devastating? How is it that a warhead just a few feet long and a few inches in diameter is capable of such mass destruction? Today, we’re going to be talking about the physics and evolution of nuclear weapons, as well as what would happen if a nuclear weapon was launched.

How do Nukes Work?

The nucleus of an atom is bound with an immense amount of energy. There are two ways that we can harness this energy: nuclear fission and nuclear fusion.

Nuclear Fission

Free neutron colliding with the nucleus of Uranium-235, causing it to split into Krypton-92 and Barium-141 and release 3 neutrons and energy.3 — Free neutron colliding with the nucleus of Uranium-235, causing it to split into Krypton-92 and Barium-141 and release 3 neutrons and energy.³

Generally, the nucleus of an atom is stable. However, the large nuclei in certain isotopes of heavy metals like uranium and plutonium make such atoms unstable. In Uranium-235 and Plutonium-239, it is possible to shoot a neutron at the nucleus and split the atom into two smaller atoms while expelling more neutrons and a tremendous amount of energy from the nucleus.

The neutrons and energy can then proceed to initiate more fission reactions, creating a nearly instantaneous release of exponentially growing energy.^{4, 5}

It’s critical that the world continue the non-proliferation policies of nuclear weapons. We must not let a technological glitch be capable of destroying the modern world.

Nuclear Fusion

Deuterium atom and tritium atom fuse under high temperatures, forming a helium isotope and releasing energy and a neutron.⁶

Nuclear fusion is the opposite of nuclear fission. Whereas fission took a single atom and broke it into two, fusion takes two very small atoms, usually hydrogen isotopes (like deuterium and tritium), at very high temperatures and fuses them into a single, larger atom (usually a helium isotope). Similar to nuclear fission, this releases a colossal amount of energy to fuel subsequent reactions. Nuclear fusion ultimately powers the earth, as the sun performs exactly this process, fusing hydrogens to create helium and releasing the energy as light and heat which then powers the earth (and us!).^{4, 5}

The Evolution of Nuclear Weapons

As mentioned before, most clips of nuclear explosions demonstrate the earliest iterations of nuclear weapons. Over time, more sophisticated technology and engineering have created even more destructive weapons.

The Atomic Bomb

The first nuclear weapons developed used solely nuclear fission and were called atomic bombs. These were the infamous bombs used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.⁴ While these are among the weakest nuclear weapons to date, do not underestimate their power.

The bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki had destructive power equivalent to 15,000 and 21,000 tons of TNT, respectively.⁴ For reference, a single kilogram of TNT will destroy a small car!⁸ Even more ridiculous is the fact that the collective 36,000 tons of TNT worth of destruction was carried out using a total of a mere two kilograms of radioactive fuel!⁴