New Orleans: Everyone should have a good doctor. I have several. There is Dr. Emmett Aluli, my good friend who runs the clinic on Molokai Island in Hawaii, there’s Zach Polett, who runs Project Vote and is ACORN’s political director, but who went to Stanford medical school for two years before he hired on with me, …
Category: Personal Writings
Voiceless!
Brooklyn, New York: Today I woke in Brooklyn at 530 am – good time for running in Fredrick Law Olmstead’s Prospect Park on a raw spring morning in the big city. A mile or so out – I felt funny, and came in. Something was happening weird. 8:00 a.m. conference call – voice felt funny, …
Orange Ranch
Veradero, Cuba: Deep in Matanzas Province our delegation recreated the experience of the Venceremos Brigade of more than 30 years ago, when hundreds, if not thousands, of left leaning folks made their way to Cuba to provide voluntary labor to help bring in the sugar harvest, create the new economy, and save the revolution. This …