Jun 24
As the parent of two kids (well, they used to be kids) who have student debt to pay off, I heartily endorse the effort behind this video. The proposed doubling of student loan interest rates highlights in a most glaring way the amazingly spreading gap between the 1 per cent and the rest of us. …
Jun 20
The S.F. cops blocked the driveway to the parking lot where the rally started, claiming it was full, when it clearly wasn’t. I and many others had to park half a mile away or more and hike up the side of a cliff to get to the assembly point, and at first it seemed that …
Jun 09
Ed Snowden’s YouTube video identifying himself as the whistleblower behind the NSA data-vacuuming operation will probably be all over the web within a day, but I thought it was worth posting here anyway, just in case someone has missed it. This is worth listening to, particularly at a time when Pfc Bradley Manning is on …
May 25
This documentary focuses on a building on New York’s Park Avenue where the city’s richest people live. One of them is David Koch of the notorious Koch brothers. Koch not only finances the Tea Party and a series of right-wing think tanks and lobbying firms. He also bought his way, via 21 million dollars in …
May 18
One of the country’s leading education scholars, John Aubrey Douglass, presented an informative lecture this evening on the life and death of California’s higher education system. Sponsored by the Alameda County Office of Education, the lecture capped a visiting scholar series held at the Oakland Museum of California. Starting with a historical overview, Douglass showed …
May 09
The Berkeley Post Office is on the auction block in one of the slimiest backroom deals in the sordid history of pol-fin clubbiness. This centrally located building is a 99-year old architectural and cultural landmark, but it’s not just a building. OK, it’s just another piece of real estate, another sales commission to the mega-broker …
Apr 20
[wdgpo_plusone] Inmates in Nazi concentration camps sometimes managed to perform music. That same spirited determination in the face of extreme hardship animates the Gaza Music School. It was established in 2008 thanks to a grant from the London-based Qattan Foundation. At the end of its first year, Israeli bombers — made in the U.S.A. — …
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