Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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“Daylight” appears on Israel-Palestine conflict
June 10, 2014J Street, the six-year-old "pro-Israel, pro-peace" liberal Jewish organization, with some 180,000 members and supporters, met in San Francisco June 7-8 in its first national summit on the West Coast.
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Los Angeles gears up for a month against torture
May 28, 2014In a world where we sometimes feel overwhelmed by tragedy, the best antidote to helplessness is to get out and do something, be with people, and imagine a better future.
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Letters from Zora: In her own words
May 16, 2014"I was able to conjure my own self," says Black American writer Zora Neale Hurston in the non-stop phenomenon that is Letters from Zora.
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“Kill-A-Gay and Flog-A-Woman” laws protested at Beverly Hills hotel
May 6, 2014The law effective May 1, in the Southeast Asian country of Brunei, provides for fines and prison sentences for gay men and lesbians, and women who have abortions.
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Noir genre fiction from L.A.
May 5, 2014Think "Stonewall," and you conjure up images of gay and trans bar patrons in Greenwich Village who finally had seen enough of police brutality and, and fought back in June 1969.
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A Coffin in Egypt, Texas
April 25, 2014The latest by American composer Ricky Ian Gordon, among the freshest voices in music today.Von Stade plays the 90 year-old Myrtle Bledsoe, lone survivor at her family homestead in Egypt, Texas.
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Labor says “NO” to outsourcing of “Draft Day’s” music
April 11, 2014"Some people think music drops from heaven. But it doesn't. It takes talented union musicians to make music."
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Echoes from “Cesar Chavez” reverberate to today
April 10, 2014Go see the film. It's flawed, but its heart is in the right place.
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