Haru is an 89 year old American woman of Japanese heritage who grew up in Riverside, California. She recalls how her family was put on a registry and incarcerated in an internment camp where they were forced to remain for four years. Then Haru stops talking and does something unexpected…… Continue reading
Photo: Gabrielle Lurie, Special To The Chronicle. Former Supervisor David Campos, seen in this 2016 file photo, said: “We’re obviously not anti-immigrant or anti-Chinese. … But this is one of the worst displays of manipulating the process I’ve seen in years.” January 9, 2017 ‘On soggy, windy Sunday, I witnessed… Continue reading
Volume 4 of 5 in the ‘speaking freely’ series. (52 minutes) Chalmers argues that the age of the “American Empire” is nearing its end. Author of Blowback, The Sorrows of Empire, and Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic, Chalmers Johnson has literally written the book on the concept… Continue reading
Berkeley police should be spending their time chasing murderers and carjackers, not evicting people from the tents they use for shelter. January 9, 2017 By JP Massar JP Massar is a Berkeley activist working on issues around homelessness, privacy and unjust debt. What’s wrong with this picture? From headlines in… Continue reading
Uploaded to YouTube on Jan 22, 2008: Chalmers Johnson, author of Blowback, Sorrows of Empire and Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic, talks about the similarities in the decline of the Roman and Soviet empires and the signs that the U.S. empire is exhibiting the same symptoms: overextension,… Continue reading
Posted by Claire Lau on January 09, 2017 In AD17, East SF, the SF Reform Democrats won 8/14 through a contentious and chaotic election. Assembly District 17: Laura Clark, Gladys Soto, Davi Lang, Alysabeth Alexander, Leah Pimentel, Angeles Roy, Mia Satya, Theo Ellington, Rafael Trujillo, Peter Gallotta, Wade Woods, Todd David,… Continue reading
January 9, 2017 Assistant #Berkeley city manager Greg Daniel has declared war on the homeless protectors, serving a 24-hour eviction notice on the good people at First They Came for the Homeless. Despite the protests of Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin, and city council people, the city managers office has engaged… Continue reading
OK, after much confusion, we have again set up a GoFundMe. We are raising money for our continued action in Berkeley. We have been raided 15 times, costing the homeless protesters thousands of dollars in needed gear. The poor tour has created change, and continues to do so. We need… Continue reading
A Bill Still documentary. The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching plan, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole…Their secret is that they have… Continue reading
