Can BikeSD Make a Dent in Income Inequality through Advocacy and Embracing...
By Sam Ollinger / BikeSD Last year, Councilmember David Alvarez appointed me to represent his council district, District 8, at the city’s Bicycle Advisory Committee. It was an incredible honor and a...
View Article‘A Better Option’: Colorado Readies Ballot Battle for Single-Payer Solution
"It's time we get the insurance industry out of the driver's seat and put families in charge of their healthcare." By Deidre Fulton / CommonDreams Will Colorado be the first state in the nation to...
View ArticleFighting for Climate Justice Means Looking After Our Neighbors
Indigenous communities that oppose extractive and fossil fuel corporations are being met with repression and plunder across the globe. The Lumad people need our support. By Fr. Edwin Gariguez /...
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The Rise of the Little People
A Carlsbad Fairy Tale Once upon a time, in the land of pink-tiled roofs, the clueless King Hallmat of the Village-by-the-Sea was troubled as he sat on his throne. The Little People were at the castle...
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America’s Same Old Sad Story: Why the White Working Class is Killing Itself
Last week brought us the stark news that America’s middle-aged white working class is. Princeton economists Angus Deaton and Anne Case released a report documenting that “The mortality rate for whites...
View ArticleWith ‘Off-Planet’ Mining Bill, US Congress Seeks to Privatize Outer Space
Extraterrestrial 'Finders Keepers' law allows US citizens and companies to legally claim 'abiotic' natural resources including water and minerals By Deidre Fulton / CommonDreams In a bipartisan bid to...
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Extreme Weather Watch: October 2015 – South Carolina, Texas Inundated by...
In early October torrential rain flooded almost the entire state of South Carolina. At least 17 people died. The cost of the flooding could top $1 billion, Senator Lindsey Graham said. Interstate 95...
View ArticleNuclear Shutdown News – October 2015
By Michael Steinberg / Black Rain Press Nuclear Shutdown News chronicles the decline of the nuclear power industry in the US and beyond, and highlights the efforts of those who are working to create a...
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San Diego’s Hidden Homeless
Homeless women and children undercounted and underserved. It looks like the issue of homelessness will be getting some airtime during the 2016 election season in San Diego. That should be good news for...
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The Citizens’ Plan Offers San Diegans a Say in Tourism
Oh, what a tangled web we weave in San Diego. Tourism tax dollars go into private coffers. Hotel owners snap their fingers and elected officials bow down before them. Our local politicians say and the...
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North Of The Fence: Water Rates, Dead Dolphins and More Mexicans Leaving U.S.
Water Rate Hikes On Tuesday, November 17, members of the San Diegans for Fair Water Rates Coalition rallied at the San Diego Civic Concourse Plaza asking the SD City Council to vote against the...
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Clinton and the New Democrats’ Tired Third Way
Recently I noted how movements like the Fight for $15 and the insurgent Bernie Sanders campaign have revealed a widespread thirst for an overtly left politics that makes the battle against the...
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Why Aren’t Seniors Getting a Raise This Year?
CEOs Got a Pay Increase Last Year But No COLA for Social Security Recipients The Social Security Administration announced that senior citizens would get no increase in their monthly checks because...
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Black Lives Matter on Black Friday
Two elements of the ugly side of our society and economy are coming together this week. Black Lives Matter groups and their supporters in cities around the country, including San Diego, are staging...
View ArticleExcerpt From Sunshine/Noir II: From the Border to the Fields
By Juanita Lopez It is the year of 2014 and both of my grandparents are very old but alive, though suffering from dementia. I decided to pay them a visit to interview them. Believe it or not, they...
View ArticleA Higher Calling for Downtown San Diego’s East Village
By Bill Adams / UrbDeZine I read an op-ed in the San Diego Union-Tribune that made me want to stand on top of a downtown high-rise and scream . . . YES!!! The opinion piece was entitled “A higher and...
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San Diego’s Climate Action Plan: Too Little, Too Late? Too Much, Too Soon?
Plans to address the issues surrounding climate change are getting top billing in the news this week. San Diego’s City Council is poised to approve a climate action plan full of ambitious goals and may...
View ArticleClimate Artists Commit ‘Brandalism’ to Expose Corporate Hijacking of COP21
'The multinationals responsible for climate change can keep green-washing their destructive business models, but the communities directly impacted by them are silenced.' By Sarah Lazare / CommonDreams...
View ArticleEnergy Democracy: Inside Californians’ Game-Changing Plan for Community-Owned...
Large utility companies control about 75 percent of the electricity market in California. A hybrid between a public agency and private utility, the new Community Choice program is a model for...
View ArticleDead, White, and Blue: The Great Die-Off of America’s Blue Collar Whites
By Barbara Ehrenreich /TomDispatch The white working class, which usually inspires liberal concern only for its paradoxical, Republican-leaning voting habits, has recently become newsworthy for...
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