Politics as Usual: Nothing Has Changed in 47 Years
I wrote the following columns for The College Times at Cal State LA during the summer of 1971. Click to to read
Century City Anti-War March — 50 Years Ago
June 23, 1967 Artist Unknown Offset, 1967 California 16963 On June 23, 1967, 15,000 anti-Viet Nam War demonstrators marched to the Century Plaza Hotel where President Lyndon B. Johnson was speaking. It was the largest anti-war gathering in L.A. history up to that time. The peaceful march, made up primarily of students and middle […]
These are the times that try men’s souls
What with the election of a narcissistic, reality TV star, pathological liar as a president, and faced with a cabinet composed of ultra-rich elites and white supremacists keen on feeding off the hands of corporate vested interests … all bent on dismantling everything that humanists have fought for decades (progressive environmental, gender, health, educational and […]
Indignez-vous! (Time for Outrage)
From The Nation. Toward the end of 2010, a small book by a 93-year-old man unexpectedly reached the summit of the best-seller list in France. Indignez-vous! by Stéphane Hessel sold more than 600,000 copies between October and the end of December. Stéphane Hessel, born in 1917, grew up in a rich literary milieu, authoring novels […]
Doublespeak
In honor of the new year, Donald Trump’s rise to the presidency, his cabinet of misinformation, and the lies being propagated as truths (or alternate facts), we hereby reprint George Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language” from 1946. By the way, Orwell’s “1984,” as well as Huxley’s “Brave New World,” both staples of the counter-culture […]
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