Publicly Owned Open-Source Paper Ballot Voting System funding passes San Francisco Budget Committee! In the past few months we’ve been telling you about our effort with our coalition partners to get San Francisco to fund publicly owned Open-Source Paper Ballot Voting Systems that will be more secure and transparent than proprietary voting systems… Continue reading
Bribes and shakedowns. Days in hideaways without food. For many fleeing violence in CentralAmerica, this is what thousands of dollars gets them on the journey to the United States. By NICHOLAS KULISH JUNE 30, 2018 (NYTimes.com) MATAMOROS, Mexico — Shortly before dawn one Sunday last August, a driver in an S.U.V…. Continue reading
By JAMES RUFUS KOREN JUN 26, 2018 | (LATimes.com) Marijuana for sale at the Greenlight Discount Pharmacy in Sylmar this past April. (Ricardo DeAratanmha / Los Angeles Times) The Los Angeles City Council is preparing to ask voters if they want to create a publicly owned bank, something no city or state… Continue reading
June 26, 2018 by Common Dreams “It is not an accident that Donald Trump can use ICE and CBP as tools of unconstitutional illegal behavior: it is part of the structural flaw of the agencies themselves.” by Julia Conley, staff writer Immigrant rights advocates and others participate in a demonstration against the… Continue reading
By Frances Dinkelspiel June 26, 2018 (Berkeleyside.com) A small pocket garden in the new STAIR Center, which will open its doors to clients on Wednesday. Photo: Frances Dinkelspiel The city of Berkeley threw open the doors of its $2.44 million shelter for the homeless on Tuesday and it felt like a community celebration. While the… Continue reading
June 25, 2018 by Common Dreams “Members of Congress ignore the overwhelming bipartisan support for net neutrality at their own risk.” by Julia Conley, staff writer Internet freedom advocates are preparing for a Day of Advocacy in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday. (Photo: Free Press/Flickr/cc) Open internet defenders warned members of Congress that on Tuesday’s Day… Continue reading
TED Published on Mar 5, 2018 What’s the antidote to rising nationalism, polarization and hate? In this inspiring, poetic talk, Valarie Kaur asks us to reclaim love as a revolutionary act. As she journeys from the birthing room to tragic sites of bloodshed, Kaur shows us how the choice to… Continue reading
I AM NOT WHAT YOU THINK! By Antwon Rose (poem written for a 10th grade honors English class at Woodland Hills High School on May 16, 2016) I am confused and afraid I wonder what path I will take I hear that there’s only two ways out I see mothers… Continue reading
New: No Country for Old Women By Steve Martinot Thursday June 21, 2018 I’m reading Marcia Poole’s essay in the Planet (6/15/18) on Ani, an 80 year old Buddhist nun who’s been homeless for the last five years. She’s sick, and in a wheel chair, and living in a tent…. Continue reading
