Category: My Soap Box
Aug 07
Post Office Sit-In Continues
Dave Welsh posted this via email: Bulletin #3 – Day 12 of Tent City on steps of Berkeley’s Post Office Tent City to privateers: Hands off the public commons! Halt the heist of the Post Office! Berkeley, California, August 7, 2013 – The Tent City on the steps of Berkeley’s main post office is now in its 12th day. Two dozen campers have been sleeping there to rally opposition …
Aug 01
Save the Post Office – Media coverage
Occupella’s Hali Hammer sends this roundup of links to videos and media coverage of the Post Office issue: YouTube video of the the demonstration at the Berkeley Post Office July 27: Another video of the second day of demonstrations: NBC coverage video of July 28 event, click here. (Link may work only in Firefox) Contra Costa Times …
Jul 27
Save the Post Office
While the Administration remains silent, the management of the U.S. Post Office continues to kowtow to the Republican right wing and its drive to hand over choice Post Office real estate and its most profitable services to private corporations. As in numerous other cities, the historic Post Office building in Berkeley is slated to be …
Jul 27
An Endangered Species
Had the privilege of an invitation yesterday to a meeting of concern about the Trayvon Martin injustice. Titled “Turning Tragedy into Triumph,” the event was hosted by the Oakland Brotherhood of Elders Network at Geoffrey’s Club on 14th Street in downtown Oakland, a traditional civil rights venue just around the corner from my old law …
Jul 26
Bicycles in an Art Museum?
Memo to the Oakland Museum: The Portland OR Art Museum has a popular special exhibit featuring modern bicycle designs. More than forty bikes are on display, ranging from the ultra-compact Sachs Tango, which folds up almost into a briefcase, to the Smith Long John, one of the first cargo-carrying bikes. There’s also the Taga, a …
Jul 26
Deplorable Administration Actions
Just returned from a short vacation and read, among all the other deplorable happenings, that the Administration sided with the Republican leadership in forcing up rates on student loans and in defending the NSA’s hoovering of private electronic data. (See New York Times July 25) This is not the “change” I voted for. This is …
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