“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven” – Ecclesiastes 3:1 The season for protests is over. The season for get out the vote (GOTV) is now. Early voting starts in mid-September in several states. Donald Trump is running Richard Nixon’s and George Wallace’s racist 1968 “law … Read more
More than 500 corporations are suspending advertising on Facebook because of founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s reluctant and minimalist response to calls to end hate speech and misinformation on Facebook. Here’s an excerpt from Mark Zuckerberg: advertisers’ boycott of Facebook will end ‘soon enough’about the Stop Hate for Profit campaign in The Guardian. Mark Zuckerberg has dismissed the threat … Read more
Three and a half months of sheltering in place — with the novel Coronavirus just one chance encounter away — have given us time to perfect our strategies for survival during the current government-created public health crisis and to make plans for a safe, more equitable, more enlightened future. COVID19 turned the spotlight on the glaring … Read more
Two black men– George Floyd of Minneapolis and Dion Johnson of Phoenix — died on the same day at the hands of law enforcement officers. In the video, Floyd says he can’t breathe as a white officer pins him to the ground with his knee. Why is that even an approved tactic for police? There is no video of … Read more
THE LONG SHADOW STREAM FOR FREE BY CLICKING HERE | AVAILABLE THROUGH SUNDAY, JUNE 14 (via Loft Cinema, 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. Tucson) “Of all the divisions in America, none is as insidious and tenacious as racism. In this powerful documentary, director Frances Causey investigates the roots of our current racial conflicts. Causey and Long Shadow producer … Read more