California
‘The Dinner Party Before the Revolution’: Jim Smith’s radical West Coast poetry
December 12, 2019Jim Smith is not a “poet’s poet” writing primarily for his peers in the literary Parnassus. His poems have a rough-and-tumble, earthy, proletarian grittiness that’s not afraid to get its feet dirty.
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Inequality and the iron law of decaying public services
November 19, 2019Chronically understaffed local fire departments simply don’t have the resources to handle Act #1 of what climate change has in store for us.
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Turning perceptions around: How California’s unions changed Californians’ minds about unions
November 19, 2019Unions have a public perception problem.
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University of California service & patient care workers strike over illegal outsourcing
November 15, 2019The latest strike was the sixth since the contract expired.
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Topic at coming West Coast gathering: Imagining a world without police
November 4, 2019Alex S. Vitale, sociology professor at Brooklyn College, will be featured here on Saturday, Nov. 16, from 5-7 p.m., in The End of Policing, an evening of conversation with local activists on abolition of policing.
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