A San Franciscan reflects on the crushing of the 1968 Prague Spring By Lutzka Zivny Special to The Examiner • February 27, 2022 (SFExaminer.com) By Lutzka Zivny Special to The Examiner I don’t remember the tanks rolling into Prague, my home city, in 1968. The Russian invasion was a quick… Continue reading
‘It’s always been a struggle between the grassroots and legislative leadership’ By Alexei Koseff • March 1, 2022 – Updated March 2, 2022 (SFExaminer.com) By Alexei Koseff CalMatters The message was clear and, more importantly, it was loud: Progressive activists would work to block the California Democratic Party’s endorsement for… Continue reading
Greg Casar declares victory in the Democratic primary election for the 35th Congressional District during his watch party in Austin, Texas, on March 1, 2022. Photo: Montinique Monroe/Getty Images On Tuesday night, progressive Jessica Cisneros also forced a runoff with troubled incumbent Rep. Henry Cuellar. Austin Ahlman, Ryan GrimMarch 1 2022, 9:35 p.m…. Continue reading
From Balta to Vinnytsia, Communities Have Been Growing in Power—and Democratic Innovation Then-Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman and Mayor of Vinnytsia Serhiy Morhunov praise the efforts made by the City of Vinnytsia in order to improve living conditions of citizens, to fight corruption and promote higher education of young people in… Continue reading
NOT back posting on a regular basis Please hold the following activist in your thoughts… Refugio Nieto as he heals from surgery Jackie Barshak as she is in treatment for Stage 3 lung cancer. She welcomes well wishes. Melvin Starks as he continues to heal. Renay Davisas she continues treatment for cancer. Please include Accessibility and… Continue reading
The Sun March 3, 2022 HEART-WARMING moment the Ukraine Parliament erupts into singing of the national anthem as Russia targets ‘key buildings’ in the capital of Kyiv. The footage, posted to Twitter by Ukrainian MP Lesia Vasylenko, shows people in the meeting singing the Ukrainian National Anthem while some held… Continue reading
How the comedian turned Ukrainian president gained control of something no army can wrest away: the narrative. BY MICHAEL IDOV February 27, 2022 (gq.com) As I write this, Volodymyr Zelensky, the most improbable national leader in the world, just might be the world’s most popular. By now everyone knows his life story’s… Continue reading
by MODERATOR (scheerpost.com) February 27, 2022 Russia was baited into war but that does not absolve its criminal act of aggression. By Chris Hedges / Original to ScheerPost Preemptive war, whether in Iraq or Ukraine, is a war crime. It does not matter if the war is launched on the basis… Continue reading
1 MARCH 2022/SF POLITICS/JAY BARMANN (SFist.com) Embattled SF District Attorney, who would like not to be embattled much longer, once again defended himself in the national press, more or less stoically, in a new interview with the New York Times. This time it isn’t a profile, or a hit piece,… Continue reading
The St. Louis Commune of 1877: Communism in the Heartland Mark Kruger Following the Civil War, large corporations emerged in the United States and became intent on maximizing their power and profits at all costs. Political corruption permeated American society as those corporate entities grew and spread across the country,… Continue reading
