Author: Adriel Hampton
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Government 2.0: A Meme Moves Mainstream
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…
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Repeal Taft-Hartley
By Adriel Hampton July 5, 2009 Alongside my intense aversion to empire-building wars, the primary reason I am running for Congress is to ensure that California’s District 10 has a clear and strong voice for an economy centered around the working class. The representative I am running to succeed had long been one of Wall…
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Iran’s Lesson to U.S: Wake Up, Democracy
By Adriel Hampton June 15, 2009 Many of the readers here have no doubt participated in political activism, protest and dissent. For those of us who marched against the U.S.’ heinous Iraq war, we remember screaming our dissent along with millions more around the world, pledging in our hearts that the glass, concrete and steel…
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Sotomayor: Do Not Give an Inch
Strong progressive support for Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court, is a chance to further marginalize prejudiced and pro-corporate elements in the Republican Party. Photo: Larry Downing By Adriel Hampton June 8, 2009 Much has already been written about the opinions, expertise, credentials and precedent leading up to Barack Obama’s nomination of Judge…
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Cut the Health Care Middlemen
Thirty-one percent of every health care dollar spent in the US is profit for the private health insurance middlemen who deny coverage to anyone who may actually need health care! Result: 46 million Americans do not have health insurance. It’s time for the US to excise the middlemen from the health care delivery equation. Photo…
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Honoring the Fallen by Fighting for the Future
Tenth Congressional District candidate Adriel Hampton with his first son, aged 4, at the Lafayette Hillside Memorial on Memorial Day. Photo by Jeremy Maurer By Adriel Hampton May 25, 2009 Remarks for the Memorial Day vigil at the Crosses of Lafayette: In 1976, fictitious newsman Howard Beal in the film “Network” told America, “I don’t…
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Can Web 2.0 Help End the Drug War?
By Adriel Hampton May 18, 2009 The rise of Web 2.0, a loosely defined collection of collaborative and social sharing technologies, seems to have the potential for radically changing our democracy. As broadband Internet becomes ubiquitous, it is giving each and every citizen the potential to impact every debate. In one example from earlier this…