By Adrienne Fong Am not back posting on a regular basis. Please hold Jackie, Melvin and Rodger in your thoughts and all those (humans & animals) who have lost their homes due to fires and floods. Jackie Barshak, battling stage 4 metastatic lung cancer, as she continues chemo therapy. Melvin Starks recently released… Continue reading
WHEN: August 4, 2022 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm America/Pacific Timezone – Repeats every Thursday XR Empathy Circle THURSDAYS Thursday, August 4⋅10:00am – 12:00pm Thursday 5-7 pm UTC / other timezones: https://bit.ly/38iEqU8 ONLINE: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86828712443Meeting ID: 868 2871 2443 We use a particular form of active listening called Empathy Circle. Each person has an… Continue reading
Former U.S. president Donald Trump delivers remarks at the America First Agenda Summit in Washington, D.C., on July 26, 2022. KYLE MAZZA/ANADOLU AGENCY VIA GETTY IMAGES The disgraced former president said the next chief executive should take control of the National Guard from state governors and deploy troops to quell cities…. Continue reading
Traffic is diverted down the Esplanade Avenue exit following an accident on the elevated Interstate 10 expressway that runs above Claiborne Avenue in New Orleans. The expressway was built directly on top of Claiborne Avenue in the late 1960s – ripping up the oak trees and tearing apart a street… Continue reading
Brad Reed July 27, 2022 (rawstory.com) Doug Mastriano. (US Army photo) A top ally for the Republican Party’s nominee for Pennsylvania’s governor has now explicitly said that Jews should not be welcome into the American conservative movement unless they convert to Christianity. The Jerusalem Post reports that Andrew Torba, the founder… Continue reading
Noted author and dissident Noam Chomsky delivers a speech at the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany on May 30, 2014. (Photo: Uli Deck/picture alliance via Getty Images) Even without fundamental changes in prevailing state capitalism, the kind of New Deal-style regulation that was dismantled by the neoliberal… Continue reading
ELENA KADVANY July 21, 2022 (SFChronicle.com) In March, a little-known Oakland restaurant got some surprising news: It had won one of the food world’s highest-profile awards. Understory, a colorful, worker-run restaurant that opened at 528 Eighth St. in spring of last year, had won the James Beard Foundation’s emerging leadership award…. Continue reading
By Gwyllm Llwydd As down as the times seem, there is hope, and there is a road forward. For some of us, who have been pushing against the wheel for decades, it seems the go to place at time ends in dispair. This is natural, the Dharma Wheel turns slowly,… Continue reading
Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes speaks during Milwaukee’s 48th Annual Juneteenth Day Festival on June 19, 2019. (Photo: Dylan Buell/Getty Images for VIBE) The lieutenant governor said he plans to campaign with his former primary rival to “unite Wisconsinites from every corner of the state to defeat Ron Johnson.” JULIA… Continue reading
