Markese Bryant raps about the legacy of Dr. King, President Obama, and how a growing movementis creating opportunities for communities of color through the green economy.
By Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins
January 18, 2010
America is struggling.
Families strive to make ends meet while facing an uncertain economic future. The deterioration of our environment - rather than slowing - continues to […]
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By Ralph E. Stone
January 6, 2009
According to the California Office of Privacy Protection, over 8 million Americans were victims of identity theft in 2006. One million of those victims lived in California. Since 2005, CitiFinancial, TimeWarner, Choicepoint, Bank of America, Ameritrade, DSW Shoe Warehouse, Cardsystems, Department of Veterans Affairs, and other companies and agencies, […]
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By Ian Fletcher, guest editorial
October 14, 2009
In this November’s election, commercial interests are doing their best to ruin downtown San Francisco. Their primary initiative—Proposition D—would create an exemption to current law and allow them to erect giant, flashing billboards along Market Street, between 5th and 7th Streets.
The Proposition D proposal is a total scam.
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Christine Pelosi discusses open source voting systems
with Open Voting Consortium founder Alan Dechert
during a fundraiser last week in San Francisco.
Photos by Luke Thomas
By Luke Thomas
October 7, 2009
The famous quote, “It’s not the people who vote that count. It’s the people who count the votes,” has been attributed to the infamous soviet-era dictator, Joseph Stalin, […]
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Gov 2.0 Radio host Adriel Hampton answers the question ‘What does Gov 2.0 mean to you?’
By Adriel Hampton
September 9, 2009
Re-imagining government got a little easier with the election of President Barack Obama last year. But thirst for civic revival is certainly not new, and neither is the concept of “Government 2.0,” the subject of an […]
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Michael Moore
Photo by Luke Thomas
By Michael Moore
June 1, 2009
I write this on the morning of the end of the once-mighty General Motors. By high noon, the President of the United States will have made it official: General Motors, as we know it, has been totaled.
As I sit here in GM’s birthplace, Flint, Michigan, I […]
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By Dennis Markatos-Soriano, American Forum
May 28, 2009
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission director Jon Wellinghoff recently stated that the U.S. may not need any new coal or nuclear power plants. Due to our tremendous renewable energy potential, the rising challenge of global warming, and the high cost of new conventional plants, I think he’s right.
The U.S. can […]
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By John Han
May 22, 2009
The California Air Resources board shed some light Thursday on the “challenges, lessons, and opportunities” for creating California’s clean energy future. The event in San Francisco came just days after President Barack Obama proposed groundbreaking federal regulations requiring U.S. car manufacturers to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles by the […]
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By Stephen Lendman
May 22, 2009
At a time of corporate dominated media, a free and open Internet is democracy’s last chance to preserve our First Amendment rights without which all others are threatened. Activists call it Net Neutrality. Media scholar Robert McChesney says without it “the Internet would start to look like cable TV (with a) […]
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