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MAY DAY: A LOCAL & NORTH AMERICAN HISTORY
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

Gonzalo Santos
Apr 24


THE ORIGINS & CHALLENGES OF THE TERMINAL CRISIS OF THE U.S. DUOPOLY
There's a flagrant asymmetry between the dual collapse of legitimacy and efficacy of both U.S. liberalism, firstly, and subsequently its...

Gonzalo Santos
Jul 25, 2025


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 11, 2025


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 25, 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 4, 2024
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