My social security check paid for the gas to drive to downtown Sonoma on June 6 to be in the Walk for Justice rally and march, organized by a local high school student group, Sonoma Black Lives Matter, welcomed by the Mayor and the endorsed... Continue
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I'm a Jewish white boy who was raised in an upper middle class suburb outside of New York City where almost no black people lived. I say almost, because there was one black student by the name of Sam Houston in my class in grammar... Continue
Guy Jarreau, a Napa Community College student, was shot and killed by a Vallejo police officer in 2010. By Loretta Carr The distress of watching Minneapolis resident George Floyd’s neck being crushed by a policeman’s knee as he begs to breathe is palpable. The indignation... Continue
I came of age and lent my youthful passionate voice during the turbulent era of civil rights, War on Poverty, equality for women and gays/ lesbians, environmental awakening and protests against the Vietnam War. Our rallies, protests and marches ebb and flow about issues that... Continue
Our conceptions of joy, love, companionship, creativity, aesthetics and the like are the stuff of human culture, highly meaningful to people but of no particular consequence to nature. If we ruthlessly consider the fundamental role of animal life on earth, we quickly arrive at one... Continue
The Trump Administration has fulfilled the dire prediction I made in last month’s Sun column: “We must not wait until the inevitable financial tsunami… the precarious working class will be homeless and unable to afford food within a few months unless there is an immediate... Continue
In the midst of this pandemic I've been reviewing household expenses, including the various types of insurance we carry. Much of it is standard stuff such as homeowner insurance for fire, theft and liability, and auto coverage for our one car; also, some additional umbrella... Continue
This pandemic is preposterous, painful. It’s unnerving not knowing our future. Still, humans often make the greatest progress in the face of major obstacles and even despair. This is an ominous time, pushing us to review what's not working in our world. It’s a... Continue
Nature on this planet functions as a complex adaptive system, a self-regulating, self-propagating process responsive to changing conditions. It is a totalistic meta-system with no "off" switch and within which all the individual systems of each biological entity are enmeshed and interdependent. Accordingly, entirely isolating... Continue
The ideal of a stable society has preoccupied humankind for a long time, perhaps forever. In order to promulgate social stability, diverse methods have been attempted by various systems of governance and leadership ranging from autocratic to democratic, communal to sovereign, hard-fisted to liberal. All... Continue