Our house is burning. In fact, the fire followed me here. If your skies were hazy this past week, it followed you too.
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This past year we have struggled through the biggest pandemic in living memory, the most critical election in 100 years, massive economic uncertainty, and the total upheaval of our personal lives. Yet while this foreground has had our rapt attention
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I am on the scary monster movie set of Bayview Hunters Point (hereon referred to as “the Bayview”). The “We Can’t Breathe Car Caravan” action has been cancelled for the second time in two weeks because…
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If you’re like me, when I see a political poster with lots of exclamation points, I step back. I’m not an ideologue! I’m not strident!. But we are living in apocalyptic times and it’s time to stop making excuses for not showing up. …
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Friends,
“We need a medic... MEDIC!!... MEDIC!!” are the words you’ll hear at the end of a 10-minute video from a medic who was deliberately hit in the chest with a burning tear gas cannister by Federal troops in downtown Portland while he was tending to injured members of the press. He was rushed to emergency...
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“Drop Everything and Just Act”
Those were my sister’s words when she recently explained to me why she’s working to get prisoners released from the COVID hotbed of prison. We were discussing the solace we both felt in taking action – me in climate, she in criminal justice – at a time of chaos and crisis.
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