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18/12/2024

Time to Stand Together

Part Three: Now Is The Time to Stand Together

31/08/2024

There will be barbecues; there will be fireworks; there will be speeches from politicians, each telling us how they are the friend of the American Worker. All lies. Not just the speeches, but the entire holiday of Labor Day in America.

Let me tell you the story of the real Labor Day: Born in the USA out of struggle and blood; abandoned and denounced by its own creators as foreign and subversive; and finally brought back to the land of its birth, a hundred and twenty years later, by immigrants. The true, native-born Labor Day of the United States of America –

There will be barbecues; there will be fireworks; there will be speeches from politicians, each telling us how they are the friend of the…

11/08/2024

As the close, here is my family's Olympics story.

I was disappointed, but not surprised, at the news that Sha’Carri Richardson was suspended from the Olympics just because of a positive…

30/08/2022

This California Supreme Court opinion yesterday could be a big help to renters protesting evictions and rent increases. The Court held that sidewalk picketing to protest the eviction of former homeowners who had been foreclosed by a predatory house-flipper was "free speech" over an issue of "public interest" - even though the immediate dispute only involved a few people. That meant that the picketers could not only have the lawsuit thrown out, but collect their attorney fees for doing so, under the "Anti-SLAPP" statute. I've used the Anti-SLAPP statute before, mainly for labor picketing. This gives us this tool for renters rights as well.

06/03/2022

In life, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was too often cast as either a saint or a devil. This tendency has grown since his murder, so that…

06/03/2022

I propose pulling the Thirteenth Amendment from the shelf of history, dusting it off, and putting it to work — in particular as to the “involuntary servitude” of laws restricting women’s choice in abortion.

“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist…

06/03/2022

A historical roadmap for achieving single-payer in California, based on the enactment of worker compensation in California, during the Progressive Era, over a century ago.

Single-Payer Health Insurance should be a no-brainer. The United States pays twice as much for health insurance as anywhere else in the…

06/03/2022

That is what a Native American tried to tell me once, a long time ago. We then got into a long discussion about exactly where I was supposed to go back to.

That is what a Native American tried to tell me once, a long time ago. We then got into a long discussion about exactly where I was…

02/02/2022

For Black History Month, I offer four articles about real (and fictional) Black History, with an emphasis on California. I hope this will provoke further thought and study, and maybe some research of your own.

Read more on Celebrate Black History Month with thought-provoking stories about Black History, with an emphasis on California.

01/01/2022

I am quoted here in this article about Sigismund Danielewicz - a major figure in the early California labor movement - until he spoke against a labor resolution to evict the Chinese "by force if necessary." His message of solidarity is especially needed today.

A Polish Jew with a beard as long as his face and piercing eyes stepped onto a stage in San Francisco in May 1885. His name was a mouthful: Sigismund Danielewicz. He stood before a group of mostly Irish union workers who were about to vote on a resolution that demanded all Chinese immigrants leave [...