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The Kern County Board of Supervisors Remains Tone-Deaf and Out-of-Step
By Gonzalo Santos, Published on 10/28/25 as an OpEd  in The Bakersfield Californian . Last Tuesday, October 21, a large number of Kern County citizens from every walk of life – young and old, of all ethnic backgrounds, U.S.-born and immigrant, veterans and lawyers, educators and community advocates, and faith leaders – turned out to the county’s Board of Supervisors (BOS) meeting to call on the supervisors to rescind their September 23 resolution opposing Proposition 50, pass
Gonzalo Santos
Oct 273 min read
MAY DAY: A LOCAL & NORTH AMERICAN HISTORY
First, a local history. Going back to its earliest history, Bakersfield, California, had a well-earned reputation of being a bastion of...
Gonzalo Santos
Apr 29
YOUR IMMIGRANT MOTHERS, AND OURS, SHARE THE SAME HEROIC STORY!
This is a letter to all my beloved U.S. communities, but especially to those whose forefathers and foremothers came from Europe: Unless...
Gonzalo Santos
Mar 10
SO MUCH FOR APPEASING THE TRUMPIAN BEAST- WHAT'S NEXT FOR MEXICO AND CANADA?
The news is all over the place: the Trump's 25% tariffs on Canadian/Mexican imports, it has been announced, will commence as of 12:00pm...
Gonzalo Santos
Mar 3
LAS REVOLUCIONES TRAICIONADAS DE CENTROAMÉRICA - ¡PERO LA LUCHA SIGUE!
NYT: Salvadoran political journalist Oscar Martinez wrote after Mr. Funes’ death, “and when I explored the question of what happened to...
Gonzalo Santos
Jan 30
THE SWAN SONG OF LIBERALISM IN THE MAGA TRUMP ERA
This article describes the wonderful liberal philosophy for a just and stable society by American political philosopher John Rawls, who...
Gonzalo Santos
Nov 24, 2024
NOBODY IS CALLING IT TERRORISM IN THE U.S. MEDIA
Just think for a second what the entire U.S. mainstream media and the entire political class in the U.S. duopoly would have called the...
Gonzalo Santos
Sep 18, 2024
Whose Freedom? A XXI Century Update
I highly recommend this excellent essay in The Guardian  by one of the foremost historians of the United States today, Eric Foner,...
Gonzalo Santos
Aug 29, 2024
THE "ABANDON HARRIS" V. THE "VOTE UNCOMMITTED" WINGS OF THE PEACE MOVEMENT IN GAZA - WHERE THE HELL ARE THE REST OF YOU?
Interesting evolution of the movement, that went from pressuring the Dems and working within the DNC to bring Palestinian voices to the...
Gonzalo Santos
Aug 24, 2024
THE WORLD'S CHAOS IS "COMING HOME TO ROOST" - THE BROADER MEANING OF THE CAMPUS ANTIWAR PROTESTS
This NYT article mentions how the world is now watching the dramatic unfolding of a new antiwar movement in the United States from their...
Gonzalo Santos
May 3, 2024
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