Editorials

From Geronimo Pratt to the Menendez Brothers

Resentencing was set for December 2024, but delays due to procedural issues and wildfires pushed it back. After Hochman took…

2 years ago

How To Fight Trump’s Attack On Farmworkers

The UFW currently represents H-2A workers under contract in California as well, as a result of organizing drives where resident…

2 years ago

Trump’s Big Lies —

"By relentlessly attacking the judicial system, flouting court orders, and arresting a sitting judge, this president is putting those basic…

2 years ago

The Silent Genocide: How Trump’s America is Choosing Who Lives and Who Dies

The time for polite disagreement and “strongly worded letters” is over. Our lives — and the soul of our democracy…

2 years ago

Janet Jackson Was Right — And So Are We

What Have They Done for Us Lately?  A Personal Reflection By Rick Thomas In 1986, Janet Jackson asked a poignant…

2 years ago

American Concentration Camps

ICE is swiftly evolving into our homegrown version of the Gestapo or The People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD). It…

2 years ago

Letters to the Editor: On Taxes, Democrats, Eaton Fire, Middleton, ILWU Ride, and the Role of the Journalist-Activist”

Increased taxes are liberation It takes a special kind of genius to take over a party whose main mantras were…

2 years ago

All Governments Lie

We have to sort of lift the bonnet, as it were, and in a way that newspapers aren’t used to…

2 years ago

A Prophet for Change

And while we are on the topic of religion, and this is Easter and Passover, it may be time to…

2 years ago

Climate Refusal, Not Just Denial

Here in the San Pedro Harbor, both ports are eagerly welcoming green transition grants on one hand, while fighting against…

2 years ago