Resistance! “Resistance” I put this together in response to the current “Administrations” proposed cuts to social spending on such items as “Meals On Wheels”, School Lunches, Housing Vouchers for the Poor, etc. The convoluted logic that it is passed as policy is nothing short of Barbarity. I know that we… Continue reading
TT/Stefan Gustafsson By Tom Turula (businessinsider.com) November 2016 Laszlo Szombatfalvy, one of Sweden’s most successful investors of all time, is urging on the younger generation to rethink global governance. Now he has issued a large award for the best idea to replace the current global governance system, through a competition called ‘A… Continue reading
First they came for the homeless March 20, 2017 We are entering this contest. If we win, an award for being bad will make my parents so proud. Did this action have an effect? Did it create positive change? Is our current action, The Poor Tour, doing any good? I… Continue reading
Photo: Scott Strazzante, The Chronicle. Brett Schnaper cleans up his campsite at a 35-person encampment on Adeline Street in Berkeley. March 16, 2017 (sfchronicle.com) An ambitious plan to pull Berkeley’s burgeoning homeless population off the streets, first into sheltering mini-villages and then into permanent housing, got a big rollout by… Continue reading
Native Americans march to the site of a sacred burial ground that was disturbed by bulldozers building the Dakota Access Pipeline on September 4, 2016 (ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images) SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — The San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously voted Tuesday in support of efforts to divest from banks… Continue reading
First they came for the homeless March 18, 2017 In case you didn’t know, The Poor Tour is here. Six months on tour, three months without a raid. Stability at last? Will the city leave us alone to help ourselves? It’s working. An addict cleaned up to be here. We… Continue reading
March 17, 2017 Earlier I said concentration camp. I got jumped by friends saying I was too harsh. The definition is clear. It is a concentration camp. This is the part of the definition that applies. Inadequate facilities is no privacy, personal space, security of possessions, control over living environment,… Continue reading
For much of the 81.8% of voting-age citizens who would have liked someone other than Trump to be occupying the White House for the next 4 years, these last months have been a bit rough. On one side of the despair-spectrum, there was that sign-waving activist who called for #resistance as soon as King Tiny-Hands was crowned president-elect and, at the opposite end,… Continue reading
Not Mark Zuckerberg. On the risks and opportunities of Mark Zuckerberg’s plan for a global community. November 12, 2015: Facebook announces a new feature by having Mark Zuckerberg post on his personal feed the first 360 Virtual Reality video in his social network. The feature itself allows any smartphone owner… Continue reading
