Signs at a temporary center for homeless people run by Kansas City, Mo., on Feb. 11. Cities and community groups are wrestling with how to shelter a vulnerable population without exposing it to an airborne virus that spreads most easily indoors. Christopher Smith—The New York Times/Redux BY CORI BUSH JULY 30, 2021 12:34… Continue reading
The Long Haul: An Autobiography by Myles Horton, Herbert R. Kohl, Judith Kohl In his own direct, modest, plain-spoken style, Myles Horton tells the story of the Highlander Folk School. A major catalyst for social change in the United States for more than 70 years, this school has touched the lives of so… Continue reading
By JOE MANISCALCO August 3, 2021 (dceport.org) Hearing Officer Finds Company Rigged Alabama Contest with Help from Postal Service Amazon cheated, regulators conclude. In April, after the vote to unionize Amazon’s Bessemer Alabama fulfillment center landed in Jeff Bezos’ favor, we told you that the richest man on the planet and… Continue reading
July 26, 2021 (sfbayview.com) Star of ‘The Last Black Man in San Francisco’ gets loud for Chesa San Franciscans are at a crossroads, where we must decide whether criminal justice and police reform moves forward or rolls back. In November of 2019, voters in this city demanded massive change to our… Continue reading
Oct 4, 2017Harvard Graduate School of Education Speaker: Cornel R. West, Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy, Harvard Divinity School Introduction: Gretchen Brion-Meisels, Ed.M.’11, Ed.D.’13, lecturer on education and co-chair, Dean’s Advisory Committee on Equity and Diversity (DACED), HGSE. Don’t miss dynamic speaker Cornel West, a professor at the Harvard… Continue reading
California Public Banking Alliance (calpba@gmail.com)August 5, 2021 Over the past few weeks, public banking gained a major boost as the House Financial Services’ Subcommittee held a hearing examining public and private efforts on how the government can increase access to banking services to all. Front and center throughout the hearing was the Public… Continue reading
Trump and McConnell supporters put up $450,000 last month in money that’s been moving through a series of front committees aimed at ousting the progressive DA. By TIM REDMOND AUGUST 3, 2021 (48hills.org) An astonishing $720,000 from just nine big contributors has poured into one of the committees seeking to… Continue reading
by Randy Shaw on August 3, 2021 (beyondchron.com) FacebookTwitterEmailPrintShare Boosting Voter Turnout for September 14 Election “Eighty percent of Republican registered voters said they were absolutely certain to vote, compared with only 55 percent of Democrats and about half of independents.”— UC Berkeley IGS/Los Angeles Times poll When California reopened on June 17, Governor… Continue reading
The city’s moving to establish a public-power system—but we should also talk about accountability for the politicians and media that enabled an illegal monopoly for so long. By TIM REDMOND AUGUST 1, 2021 (48hills.org) It’s astonishing how badly PG&E has bungled its political position in San Francisco. Twenty years ago,… Continue reading
