October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month

Info at Emerge! Center Against Domestic Abuse: https://www.emergecenter.org/. Don’t forget to wear purple on October 18, 2018 on Wear Purple Day.  Check out all the other activities for the entire month of October. As a former staff attorney for a DV Victims Advocacy project (in Hawaii) and the former Interim Director of the Domestic Violence … Read more

My letter to Senator Flake on his compromise regarding Kavanaugh’s appointment: Sorry it doesn’t go far enough

Dear Senator Flake, Thank you for your compromise regarding putting a hold on voting on Kavanaugh to allow for an FBI investigation. I was very disturbed when I heard the news that you would vote along party lines to confirm Kavanaugh. While I believe that his sexual assault of Ms. Ford (and lying about it) … Read more

Democracy in Chains? Not if the People Do What We are Capable of.

Author Nancy MacLean believes American democracy is facing an existential crisis right now.
Author Nancy MacLean believes American democracy is facing an existential crisis right now.

Over breakfast at the Doubletree Resort in Tempe, Dr. Nancy MacLean discussed her book Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America and the message contained in its theme: The people need to know that our country and values we hold dear (opportunity for all, fairness for all, justice for all) is being undermined by a clique of oligarchical and plutocratic interests bent on making a new America where the elite always prevail, as the rest of the citizenry are fed false conflicts on the threat of the other (minorities and immigrants) so the real intentions of these reactionary interests can be advanced.

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