Camila Vallejo, Sebastian Pinera and the Chilean Student Protests
Garry CrystalOne of the many news highlights of 2011. 2011 was a year of worldwide protests including the Chilean student protests against the injustice of the education system. In 2011 Chile witnessed...
View ArticleMr Midnight Movie Seeks the American Dream by Tackling White Guilt
Samuel MaelEvenings should never be spent bent over a keyboard in an effort to relay rogue expeditions to the desert with the “inflammatory, but diplomatic” atheist, Mr. Midnight Movie, and “the...
View ArticleFalse Friends
Phillip FitzsimmonsIt came to light during the Republican presidential nomination process that some 92% of Newt Gingrich’s 1.3 million Twitter followers were fake. This wholly unstartling development...
View ArticleGuns, Violence And Death Vs. The Pursuit Of Life
Dan Sanders The end of the world did not come as the Mayans predicted. But maybe the world is being chiseled away at slowly by greed and a self-centered me first attitudes. That illness has been a...
View ArticleWhy I Support Bernie Sanders for President
(An excerpt follows from the keynote speech at the kickoff rally for Bernie Sanders on July 29 at the Grange in small town Sebastopol, attended by 180 people. Half a dozen other house gatherings...
View ArticleWater Grab by Sonoma County, California’s Wine Empire
(Santa Rosa, CA) An overflow crowd spilled into the lobby at California State Senator Mike McGuire’s August 13 promised Town Hall. Many were alarmed by an article at the top of the front-page of the...
View ArticleWine and Water Watch Challenges Nor. California’s Invasive Wine Empire
Activists objecting to the over-growth of the wine/hospitality industry in rural areas of four Northern California counties have met monthly for half a year. At their August 15 meeting in Healdsburg,...
View ArticleHow Safe Do You Feel These Days? What Can We Do Together About It?
I no longer feel as safe as I used to. How about you? Do you think that the worlds in which you live are becoming more dangerous? What threats might you perceive? What could enhance your safety? What...
View ArticleWelcome to the Start of the Third American Revolution: The National and One...
(Santa Rosa, California) The first American Revolution was lead by white men. They defeated the powerful British Empire and gained our independence in the 18th century. The people won. The second...
View ArticleJapanese American Internment Remembered, As Trump Rounds Up Immigrants
Eliot Elisofon / Getty Images The Japanese American Citizens League held a “Day of Remembrance” at Sebastopol’s Enmanji Buddhist Temple on Feb. 18 in Northern California. Around 200 people marked the...
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