Jun 01
I tried to go to the Bernie rally in downtown Oakland on Monday but by the time the BART train let me out, Oscar Grant Plaza was already filled with bodies from wall to wall and there was a long line of people waiting to go through the security tent and get in. How long? …
May 02
By Tom Gallagher Really, you can’t fault Hillary Clinton’s campaign for trying to get Bernie Sanders out of the race. It’s a campaign – that’s what you do. They want to win the nomination. We on the Sanders side want it too and we’d love to see Clinton out. But we’re also campaigning to change the …
Apr 08
By Tom Gallagher Gallagher is the author of ‘The Primary Route: How the 99% Take On the Military Industrial Complex.’ He lives in San Francisco. Reposted from Common Dreams with permission of the author. Wisconsin was another great Sanders campaign success story. When the voters realized their choices were not limited to the usual corporate options, …
Apr 04
Yesterday more than hundred news organizations simultaneously broke a wall of secrecy surrounding the financial transactions of prominent business and political figures in more than a dozen countries. The source of the articles is a treasure of 11.5 million pages of documents leaked from the files of Mossack Fonseca, a law firm in Panama, that …
Mar 30
Watching the President of the United States stroll through Old Havana almost like a regular tourist with his family the other day brought back vivid memories of my well-spent youth. I was in college when the word went out from the US State Department that United States citizens were verboten to travel to Cuba. This …
Mar 11
My practical education in national electoral politics came in 1964, when I voted for Lyndon Johnson because he was (he said) the Peace Candidate. No sooner in office than he turned around and escalated the Vietnam war beyond all bounds. Aha, I said to myself, that’s the name of this game. Every four years thereafter …
Feb 13
Aubergine, which opened at the Rep this evening, is a sweet and savory meditation on food, death, and family. A young man named Ray (Tim Kang) has to confront the imminent death of his father (Sab Shimono). Referred home from the hospital for hospice care, the father lies on his deathbed and only groans occasionally. …
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