Social Justice Magazine
Dah DEE dah DAH dee dah Dah dah dah dee DAY Dah DEE dah DAH dee dah Dah dee DEE dah day...Recognize this melody? If you're a Blue Shield of California member, you hear it pretty much every time you call and end up holding till an actual person answers. A few days ago I heard it for half an hour, interrupted only by a man's recorded voice telling me how Blue Shield is giving me … [Read more...]
Until a group achieves full equality within society, it’s important to remind everyone else what problems still exist and how to correct them. The new A Woman’s Nation -- aka The Shriver Report-- does this through articulate writing based on thoroughly vetted research.The report is an interesting though not compelling account of the historical and continuing work-related struggles women … [Read more...]
What the...I told the passenger's side rear view mirror of my car when I saw what it showed.I'd just found the only legal parking place on Moorpark near Van Nuys in Sherman Oaks. All I had to do was parallel park fast and maybe I'd make my meeting on time.Car all lined up, in reverse and ready to roll, I glanced at that rear view mirror and saw a man in a wheelchair with his back to me, … [Read more...]
"Either the public buys the politicians or the special interests will." -- George Skelton, LA TimesBig Pharma makes sweetheart deals with the White House.Big Oil sends employees to spoil congressional Town Halls with their assault rifles and their "grassroots" concerns about climate change.Big Milk seizes the dairy industry (seriously). Last week NPR's John Burnett reported on two … [Read more...]
"It's not about what the public wants. It's about money...and nothing will change...until the money-lenders are tossed out of the temple, and we tear down the sign they've placed on government -- the one that reads: "For sale." --Bill Moyers, July 10, 2009 Bill Moyers Journal, PBSThe Journal that night presented an eyewitness account of the abuses that profit-hooked health insurance … [Read more...]
Late afternoon rush hour, Hollywood, this time of year -- right after Easter, just a few days left of Passover. Moments after hugging my then 11-year-old goodbye and watching her dad welcome her to his seder, I already missed her.I was expected at a seder in the West Valley in about 40 minutes. With bumper-to-bumper traffic for blocks along Franklin Ave. toward the freeway, that wasn't going … [Read more...]
When visionary journalist/author David Sirota published his book, The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington in June 2008, he traveled the country—including an appearance at Valley Dems United Democratic Club—making his case. But even before November 4, it was clear that Americans were living their own insurrections; some readers of The … [Read more...]
This past Sunday I ran for re-election as a Delegate to the California Democratic Party (CDP). I was on the Progressive Slate, from the 42nd Assembly District which covers parts of LA and the San Fernando Valley.Two years ago when I first ran, local progressive Dems were fired up and ready to give the state party a shot of bold. That election day, the hall outside the Beverly Hills Library … [Read more...]
by Wendy Block --Back from Best Buy one recent evening with my new all-in-one inkjet, I finally began connecting it to the computer just before midnight. When I next glanced at a clock, it was way later and I'd utterly failed. Time for another disjointed tech call. … [Read more...]
by Wendy Block --"I can't go on. I'll go on." -- "The Unnamable" by Samuel BeckettYea us! Americans just spent over a billion in time, energy and dollars and changed our government. … [Read more...]
There’s never been a better time to seek enlightenment—the state that frees you from gut-shredding despair every time McCain/Palin snarls at Obama and Barack doesn’t rip right back and raise the stakes. True enlightenment, of course, also requires moving past the delight you feel when Obama gives as good as he gets.The ultimate goal is equanimity—reacting to triumph the same as to … [Read more...]
You'd have to be on a media fast to have missed journalist/blogger/commentator David Sirota on TV (Stephen Colbert, CNN, Fox News[!]), radio (NPR, Pacifica) and in the pages of Newsweek and The New Republic earlier this summer. He was discussing his New York Times bestseller The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington. It's his deft synthesis of … [Read more...]
In iconoclastic journalist Robert Scheer’s brilliantly titled new book “The Pornography of Power,” we get confirmation-- in infuriating black and white—of rumors that have haunted the country on and off since September 11. For some of us, there’s disturbing new information too.Scheer begins by emphasizing the fear that surrounded neoconservatives as they grew up during the Cold War. … [Read more...]
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