Happy Birthday Cesar.
Cesar Estrada Chavez would of been 82 today. He is buried up the road from me in Keene, CA which I drive by every time I go east. He left this world on April 23,1993.
I marched with him. I took shit from the cops and rednecks for him and the cause of Farm workers being [...]
Amazing Grace ~ A Tribute to Martin Luther King jr.
I was thinking about MLK jr. and his incredible endurance. Who among us would continue with a movement after having attack dogs, fire hoses, nightsticks, tear gas, bricks through the window, and dynamite tossed at our homes? Doing jail time became a home away from home. I can’t help but connect this song with that [...]
Andrew Berends Needs Our Help
My friend Karolyn sent me an email about a New York-based freelance filmmaker and journalist who was working on a film about the oil-producing Delta region in Nigeria. Andrew was Karolyn’s daughter Katherine’s high school class. His mother, Polly, is the author of Whole Parent, Whole Child and is a dear friend of Karolyn’s. [...]
Ray McGovern to Colin Powell: Come clean dude
Ray is the man that spoke truth to power when BushCo was lying their way into the Iraq War. Ray spent an entire career working for the CIA as an analyst.
Another Kind of Hero
When we think of hero’s, most often our minds first conjure up larger than life figures, either from fictional characters initially in books or in later times splashed across movie and television screens.
L. F. Eason III, american hero
It’s easy to forget what principle and conviction and honor look like, but this man reminds me. Mr. Eason, an employee of North Carolina’s Agriculture Department, refused to fly the flag at half mast after the death of avowed racist and bigot Jesse Helms.
