Am still NOT back posting. *** ASL interpretation – Let me know if your event needs this service .*** Please include Accessibility and ASL info in your events! And if your action is ‘child friendly’ These are JUSTICE and INCLUSIVE issues! Please post your actions on Indybay even if event is digital: https://www.indybay.org/calendar/?page_id=12 See Indybay also for other… Continue reading
A short list that answers your questions about the epic battle to try to help millions of Americans facing eviction, bankruptcy and starvation. David Sirota, Walker Bragman, and Andrew Perez Dec 30, 2020 This report was written by David Sirota, Walker Bragman and Andrew Perez As the fight to provide one-time $2,000… Continue reading
Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America by Kurt Andersen (Goodreads Author) During the twentieth century, America managed to make its economic and social systems both more and more fair and more and more prosperous. A huge, secure, and contented middle class emerged. All boats rose together. But then the New Deal gave… Continue reading
December 29, 2020 by Common Dreams (commondreams.org) “It would be unconscionable, especially after the House did the right thing, for the Senate to simply leave Washington without voting on this.” by Jake Johnson, staff writer 52 Comments Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) heads to the Senate floor at the U.S. Capitol building… Continue reading
December 29, 2020 by Common Dreams “Working families need help now. Not next year, now,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders. by Common Dreams staff (commondreams.org) 77 Comments Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) leave after the weekly senate policy lunch on Capitol Hill on December 15, 2020… Continue reading
She sold her Liechtenstein to fight mass incarceration: New film documents one woman’s “philanthropy by justice not generosity” By EMILY WILSON -DECEMBER 28, 2020 (48hills.org) When Agnes Gund, philanthropist and president emerita of the Museum of Modern Art, saw Ava DuVernay’s documentary, 13th, about criminal justice and mass incarceration, she experienced a revelation…. Continue reading
DECEMBER 28, 2020 (counterpoint.org) BY JOHN KENDALL HAWKINS Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair You hide in your mansionWhile the young people’s bloodFlows out of their bodiesAnd is buried in the mud You’ve thrown the worst fearThat can ever be hurledFear to bring childrenInto the world – Bob Dylan, “Masters of War”… Continue reading
Demand Alameda County D.A. Nancy O’Malley charge Anthony Pirone with the felony murder of Oscar Grant III SIGN: Sign on: Demand Alameda County D.A. Nancy O’Malley charge Anthony Pirone with the felony murder of Oscar Grant III | The Action PAC (grassrootslaw.org) EMERGENCY PETITION will be delivered January 1st. : to get… Continue reading
