Everything is Politics
Here’s the thing about being a citizen and making your voice heard. Getting exactly what you’re asking for is just a small part of why you do it. Monday’s #Dec19 #DefendDemocracy #StopTrump event...
View ArticleA Protest Funeral to Summon the Spirit of Resistance
Yesterday’s Protest Funeral for EPA, the climate, and environmental justice at the EPA’s regional office in downtown San Francisco was just another little piece in the multi-dimensional grassroots...
View ArticleLife in Times of Trump, “I can’t believe we’re marching for facts” Edition
This is, in fact (or is it a fact? who knows anymore), the year 2017 we find ourselves in, and thanks to the extraordinary verbal manure spreading machine posing as president that is America’s latest...
View ArticleDo people still care about climate change? #RiseForClimate says YES!
I was wondering if there was enough room left in the “finite pool of worry” for a good turnout for the #RiseForClimate action taking place yesterday, considering all the first responses and triage...
View ArticleYoung Green New Deal activist: “I shouldn’t have to think about survival, I...
After attending the rally on Friday that preceded the now-viral exchange about the Green New Deal resolution between the local youth group Youth Vs. Apocalypse and CA Senator Diane Feinstein, I once...
View ArticleFaces of the Resistance: 2 Years, 22 Uprisings
I’ve noticed that the themes since the 2018 midterm election — itself the result of nationwide acts of direct democracy — have been shifting from pure resistance to a more proactive, visionary energy....
View ArticleTurn your orange blues into action: California about to pass important...
It’s so easy these days to get either distracted or depressed by the daily barrage of orange madness raining down on us, ranging in significance from hopelessly vapid to humanly atrocious. Coupled with...
View ArticleStriking for a Livable Planet is Striking for Justice
As I was assembling the posters I had printed from the 350.org Arts Kit to make signs for tomorrow’s Global Climate Strike, I was reflecting back on a week in which the themes of justice so powerfully...
View ArticleThe Planet or The Humans: Michael Moore’s false choice a lesson in how not to...
I meant to write about the Michael Moore produced documentary Planet of the Humans right after watching it last weekend. But over the course of the week all of the wild distortions and...
View ArticleDismantle the Police State (of Mind)
I was thinking of a message for my sign that would encompass both the immediate need for disarming America’s militarized police forces as well as a paradigm shift in which the word “force” would never...
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