San Francisco I’m not totally shocked, but I didn’t see all of this coming. Meeting with random associates, comrades, and friends from diverse fields and directions, everyone on the Left Coast is buzzing about Bernie Sanders and his race for President. Running a union, there’s no way to miss the fact that several thousand union …
Category: DC Politics
Hillary Rodham as an Intern in the Summer of ‘71
Montreal The final brick that far right conservatives and the blogsphere try to build in the Hillary Clinton, “girl radical,” wall is her 1971 summer internship with the Oakland-based “movement” law firm Treuhaft, Walker, and Burnstein that specialized in civil liberties, civil rights, labor, and the gamut of whatever was needed by the Bay Area …
Finally, A Full-Throated Call for Universal Voter Registration
New Orleans Well, now we’re talking! Finally, we may see find some politicians speaking up and taking a chance on more democracy, rather than just hoping for more rich people and campaign donations. In a speech at Texas Southern University, a largely African-American institution in Houston, where she was getting an award of some kind, …