Author: kid oakland

We’ve come a long way from the heady moment that gave rise to this August 2003 interview between prominent internet theorist Lawrence Lessig and then Howard Dean campaign manager Joe Trippi.   Just one week ago, over...

What makes progressive values progressive?  I think these core things: respect for the dignity and rights of every human person an insistence on seeking local / global connections an unflinching concern about poverty and...

There’s a moment driving the morning commute over the San Francisco Bay Bridge that exemplifies who we are and where we are at as a civilization. Driving through the tunnel on Yerba Buena Island in five lanes of traffic...

I wrote this essay on my blog last week.  (Writing about feminism and not mentioning the presidency of Geena Davis, what was I thinking?)  Current events, from the election of Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia, first...

This Monday’s news is simply not good for those of us battling Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s stealthy set of ballot initiatives here in the Golden State.  

Mike Finnegan in the LA Times reports that labor leaders are very worried about the prospects for Proposition 75:

“We’re not winning on this thing, and we’ve got to step it up,” Steven Neal, a Los Angeles County Federation of Labor official, told scores of union leaders at a campaign breakfast last week in downtown Los Angeles. He likened the battle against Proposition 75 to a “sinking ship” in need of rescue.

Argh…more below…