The U.S. has a lot of wealth without a lot of values about it. Mondragon has strong values, but wants more results (wealth). The problem…
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I’m in Mondragon, Spain on a study tour with a dozen others, organized by the Praxis Peace Institute. It is day one and at least…
My confession of the week: I hate electoral politics. I hate the piles of mailers, attack ads, and clever, narrow messaging. I hate the fact…
The biggest “aha” for me after reading Edward E. Baptist’s The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism is the…
’tis a Trade founded in Fraud, born of Deceit, and nourished by Trick, Cheat, Wheedle, Forgeries, Falshoods, and all sorts of Delusions; Coining false News,…
In the thriller Buying Time written by a friend of mine, attorney and mystery writer Pamela Samuels Young, a disbarred lawyer named Waverly Sloan goes…
“Valor Marghulis” – All “Song of Ice and Fire” fans know it means “All Men Must Die” in High Valyrian. At some point, we must…
A few weeks ago, as New Yorkers (well, tourists) rang in the New Year at Times Square, an unusual thing happened: no one got arrested….
On January 10th, the Police Protective League, the union that represents police officers at the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), announced that they had hired…
Part I In 1987 me, Gary and his father, Dikes, moved from Gary’s boyhood home in South L.A. on Flower near Slauson to the house…
In the aftermath of the murder of Michael Brown I wrote about Ferguson, a catharsis of feeling, a mourning for another life taken, a way to…
While I haven’t seen Selma yet, I intend to. Though given I’ll probably see it at the movie theater multiplex in the Crenshaw mall for…
As this is being written, it’s the Wednesday of the American Library Association’s Banned Books Week. The Captain Underpants graphic novel has topped the Banned…
I knew it was going to be ugly, no one had tackled the shed for close to two decades. The last time I had looked…
It’s taken a very long time to admit it, but yes, I am an environmentalist. There has always been some trepidation and awkwardness towards the…
When you have a plot of land, land that your ancestors sacrificed to acquire and maintain –– that’s something you just can’t ignore.
“Le Midi”, in southeastern France,is where my grandfather grew up and where he later joined the Résistance as a young man.
I have tremendous pride for the neighborhood I grew up in, though it took a very long time for me to get to that place.
I can never forgive Al Davis for destroying the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Complex –– once a beautiful baseball venue
According to a new report by the Homes for All Campaign of Right to the City, the same destructive speculative forces that produced the U.S. foreclosure crisis has…