First, a local history of May Day, from 2006 to 2026. It is well known that going back to its earliest history, Bakersfield, California, had a well-earned reputation of being a bastion of conservatism and Big Agriculture/Big Oil power, where mass protests simply never happened. Such protests, such as did appear in the Southern San Joaquin Valley going back to the 1900s, 1920s &30s, 1940s & 50s, and especially in the 1960s, were mostly carried out by striking migrant farmworke

The Project 2028 supported by the 50501 People's Movement is excellent as far as it goes, restoring & deepening American democracy, extending the social contract, reining in the plutocracy, and restoring the free press; but it is not as comprehensive, audacious and bold as it needs to be - it falls short of including audacious proposals on two urgent, unavoidable, strategic sets of issues: (1) the international geopolitical & geo-economic questions of peace and just global go

It has become quite the habit for the Hater-in-Chief to smear all immigrants as violent criminals for the crimes of a few, and use it to justify the ongoing cruel, violent, illegal campaign of mass detentions and deportations we have been witnessing, and his callous shutting down of most refugee and other legal admissions programs - even reversing and nullifying all temporary legal statuses. This sharply contrasts Trump's and his acolytes' ho-hum reflexive deflecting and avoi

There's a flagrant asymmetry between the dual collapse of legitimacy and efficacy of both U.S. liberalism, firstly, and subsequently its...

This is a letter to all my beloved U.S. communities, but especially to those whose forefathers and foremothers came from Europe: Unless...

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...

NYT: Salvadoran political journalist Oscar Martinez wrote after Mr. Funes’ death, “and when I explored the question of what happened to...

Here's Trump's answer to the Mexican government's polite, diplomatic, confident, announced intention to send a delegation to Washington...

This article describes the wonderful liberal philosophy for a just and stable society by American political philosopher John Rawls, who...

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...

I highly recommend this excellent essay in The Guardian by one of the foremost historians of the United States today, Eric Foner,...

Interesting evolution of the movement, that went from pressuring the Dems and working within the DNC to bring Palestinian voices to the...

This NYT article mentions how the world is now watching the dramatic unfolding of a new antiwar movement in the United States from their...