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Alicia Vargas is a multi-platform media producer, communications strategist, and right to health organizer for St. John’s Well Child & Family Center. She also produces the Soul Rebel Radio program.
Alicia Vargas: The iconic street murals mark a new manifestation of Indigenous history in the U.S. that addresses the Oaxacalifornian Indigenous experience of migration.
James Preston Allen: The police cannot arrest their way out of the homeless crisis, the L.A. Sanitation Department can’t sweep it under the rug or haul it away.
Mel Gurtov: The murder of Jamal Khashoggi, an independent-minded Saudi journalist and Washington Post columnist, almost certainly at the hands of a Saudi assassination squad dispatched by (now King) Salman, shows what happens when US foreign policy is for sale.
Charles Jaco: The burden of paying for America – our Social Security, Medicare, military, social programs, school aid, highways, food inspections, all of it – has shifted from the people most able to afford it to those who have the least money.
