Editorials
Community Voices
Democrats Must Declare Class Warfare
Democrats have become so rusty, so wary of class warfare, that they haven’t even identified a term or metaphor to describe the rightwing billionaires for whom the GOP fronts.
Thom Hartmann
Greg Palast
David Bacon
The Life of the Party, Bring American Communists Out of the Shadows — and Closets
Published in Jacobin, Aug.15
https://jacobin.com/2024/08/communists-san-francisco-lgbt-race
https://davidbaconrealitycheck.blogspot.com/2024/08/the-life-of-party.html
In the 20th century, American Communist Party members were portrayed as the Red Menace, an enemy within. In reality, they were...
The Use And Misuse Of A “Can”
This year the University would not be defeated so easily. On Jan. 4, in the dead of night, police reoccupied People's Park. After the people living in the park were removed, trucks brought in dozens of cans, and a wall of containers, stacked double high, was erected around the park.
The Human Cost of a Strawberry Wage
Civil Eats, April 24
Driving north on California's Highway 101 through the central coast, a traveler approaches the Santa Ynez Valley through miles of grapevines...
Life After Mother
Life After Mother, Five to Ten Years
Lyn Jensen - 0
About the time I closed that life chapter, my mother had a stroke, which started a chain of events that led to her death two years later and, once again, I was the only close relative to shoulder the burdens that accompanied the end of her life.
