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Our Reality is Like a Nightmarish Dream
Smashing Big Government and the Deep State for Vengeance and Profit
Is Woke Broke, or Is There Hope?
Racists Hold the Key to Saving Our Democracy
The Rise of Public Sector Unionism (Part Two of Two)
Book Review: "Paradise and Other Lost Places" by Jim Miller
Can a Man Who Is Like a Broken Clock Make America Healthy Again?
Paradise and Other Lost Places
The Union or Bust Podcast: WTF Happened? A 2024 Post Election Analysis
My Descendants Witnessing Demonization Burns My Soul
San Diego’s Mixed Electoral Results
The Rise of Public Sector Unionism (Part One of Two)
Living Through Madness, Of Coming Back
Democrats Could Promise $100 Grand, a Stairway to Heaven, and Still Lose
California Pharmacy Workers Ratify Strong Contract Agreement with CVS
How the Democrats Lost the Working Class and the Election
Trump's Conspiracy Fueled Visions
Legacy Media’s Upcoming Death by a Thousand Executive Orders
Thinking of Jackson and What We Should Do Next
The Bad Guys Won. It is what it is.
Why Was the Harris Campaign’s Working-Class Message So Muted?
What I Will Miss if Trump Wins
Whether they like it or not, Donald Trump’s gonna protect women
Ten Questions Tuesday’s Election Will Go a Long Way Towards Answering
Kicking it with Latino Storytellers
Economic Populism and Working-Class Anger
The Rise of the UFW (Part Two of Two)
CVS Workers Reach Tentative Agreement on Contract
Gender Matters in This Year’s Election
Note to Harris: Don’t Surrender Economic Populism to the Billionaires
Kris Kristofferson, a Wonderful Human Being
An Interview with Ella deCastro Baron on Her New Book, "Subo and Baon: A Memoir in Bites"
The Rise of the UFW (Part One of Two)
ULP Strike Begins at Select CVS Pharmacies in LA and Orange County
I've Got Those Enshittification Blues
Harris, Democrats, and the Union Vote
From "Itchy, Brown Girl Seeks Employment" by Ella deCastro Baron
I Want a President to Exemplify Human Decency for My Progeny
Victoria Woodhull Uncensored: The Life of the First Woman to Run for President
2024 UNITE HERE Local 30 Hilton Bayfront Strike Victory
Red Waves and Racist Rants in the Presidential Election Homestretch
What Would Electoral Success for the Lincoln Club Mean for San Diego?
A Message for Some Young Brothers Who Have Got Some Serious Thinking to Do
Announcing the South Bay Clean Energy Education Program
San Diego Shipyards and Our Unions There
FUJIGM, NIMBY-ism, CHILDREN, and the San Diego Mayoral Election
Thoughts After a Year of War in the Middle East
"Peeping Tom Tom Girl" by Marisela Norte
New Book! Privilege and Passion: The Novel by Mel Freilicher
Rite Aid Workers No Closer to Agreement
Animated Cartoon Sponsored by Union Played Role in Reelecting Roosevelt
CVS Pharmacy Workers Authorize ULP Strike in Overwhelming Vote
Activism & Unions on the San Diego Waterfront
The Story Behind the Story of Proposition 36
Existential Terror and Polling on the Campaign Trail
"Singing at the Gates” from "Rita and Julia" by Jimmy Santiago Baca
The 1946 Oakland General Strike
A War on Killer Cars, User Fees for EV’s, and a Plea for Measure G
A Soul Sistah Put That Dude in His Place
From "Rita and Julia" by Jimmy Santiago Baca
CVS Workers to Hold Strike Authorization Vote Next Week
The 50s: Era of Business Unionism
Join Us! Hilton Bayfront Strike Rally WEDNESDAY 9/18 at 2PM
San Diego County Board of Supervisors Election Contests
From "The Unmaking of Americans: 7 Lives" by Mel Freilicher
Arsenal of Democracy: Fighting Racism in Bay Area Shipyards During WW II
Chaos Comes Calling: The Battle Against the Far-Right Takeover of Small-Town America
Book Review: COVID Wasn't Colorblind
A Boy’s Tears of Love and Joy and Pride
From "Atacama Poems" by Adrián Arancibia
Women of the French Resistance
Radical Responses to the Great Depression
New Book! Stories of San Diego: A Collection About People of Color and Covid
Every American Worker Should Have the Right to Fair Scheduling and Paid Sick Leave
San Diego Hotel Workers have Joined the Ranks of 10,000 Hotel Workers on Strike This Labor Day
From "The Commuters" by Cheryl Klein: "Sewing Machines"
Almost Mayor: When the Socialist-Labor Fusion Was on the Ballot in Los Angeles in 1911
A Joy Unlike Any I’ve Ever Known
Notes from the Presidential Campaign Trail
The Deep History of the Radical Right’s (No Longer) Stealth Plan for America
Snoop Dogg Bringing Joy to the World
From "The Commuters" by Cheryl Klein
Between a Rock & a Hard Place for 100 Years
Job Harriman and Fusion Politics
Youth v. Oil Celebrates Big Oil’s Defeat and Withdrawal of its Costly Referendum
2024 Democratic National Convention - Infotainment & Opportunities Abound
The Democrats, Labor, and the New Hope for a Better Future
From Gods of Rapture by Steve Kowit
Patty Hearst & the Twinkie Murders
Youth4Climate’s Rise Up Rooted Summit
How San Diego's ReWilders Are Turning the Tide on Habitat Loss
From Gods of Rapture: Poems in the Erotic Mood
Campaign Launch & Kayaking: SD350 Celebrates World Ocean Day
Between a Rock & a Hard Place for 100 Years
Open Shop II: Union Organizing Campaigns
Contingency and Transient America, Part Two
May You Live in Interesting Times
‘It had to be him’: the meaning of Jude Bellingham’s labor at the 2024 Euros
Getting Lost in the Summer Crowd
Kamala Knows Donald Trump’s Type
One or Two Things I Know About Kathy Acker
The Labor History Behind the Historic Minimum Wage Law
Between a Rock & A Hard Place for 100 Years
Dems Blue Fire Melting the Orange Liar?
Sphere and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other Tales of America Gone Crazy
We’ve Got to Stop This Man Before it all Blows
Los Angeles at the Turn of the Last Century: How it Worked When There Were No Labor Laws
How You Can Personally Save Democracy and Foil Trump
The Other Side of the Medals at the 2024 Paris Olympics
Learning How to Die and Live Again
We The People Need to Take our Democracy in Our Own Hands
“All the same good for Chinamen”
Contingency and Transient America, Part One
I’ll Bet My Tin Foil Hat Beelzebub Shot Trump
I Cover the Waterfront: Max Miller and the Ghosts of San Diego’s Past
Indecisiveness as a Transgression Against Humanity
Things To Do During Time of War (2003)
Only a God Can Save Us. Or Maybe Marcuse
SWIMMING WITH THE SHARKS: Or, Crime Does Pay (Big) in New York’s Gilded Age
The Not So Secret (But Still Widely Unknown) Life of All Unionized Teachers in the Era of Janus
Citizen Action Convinces San Diego City Council to “Fix the Fatal 15”
Will Project 2025 Save San Diego Sheriff Martinez From Jail Deaths Disclosure?
Somewhere Down a Road in the Mountains
Ghosts of the San Diego Rialto
Is This Presidential Race Really About Age?
Discovering the Regional Decarbonization Framework
The Not So Secret (But Still Widely Unknown) Lives of TK-12 Public School Teachers
A Demonic Drive for Christianity in the Classroom
LOCAL BOY MAKES BAD: Andrew Cunanan Revisited
Food 4 Less/Foods Co. Workers Reach Tentative Agreement
Digging Into 2024’s First Presidential Debate
The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and The Struggle for the Soul of Labor
We Have to Talk About More than Just Abortion
Terminate the Income Tax? Trump’s Tariffs Are Truly Terrible
San Diego Activists Win a More Equitable Budget
The Monsters in America’s Kitchen
“Everybody Knows” and the Restaurant Business
Global War and the Assault on Freedom of Expression
The “Instrument of Satan”: Anne Hutchinson
Food4Less Workers to Rally for Better Wages, Staffing, Security, and Benefits
He’s Gone: Bill Walton, Basketball, Politics, and the Grateful Dead
34 for 45! On Trump’s Historic Humiliation and the Limits of Our Schadenfreude
Please Don’t Make Caitlin Clark’s Stardom About Race
We Have Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself
UCSD Gaza Solidarity Encampment
TRUMP GUILTY OF FELONY FRAUD x 34
The Not So Secret (But Still Widely Unknown) Lives of TK-12 Public School Teachers
BURN, WORKERS, BURN!: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Catastrophe, Extinction, and the Limits of Collective Human Imagination
May is Labor History Month: An Interview with Fred Glass
India and Mexico Burn, While Tornado Alley Churns
Memorial Day Blues: Remember the Dead and Let Yourself Mourn
Schools Must Be Made Safe for Everyone
An Open Letter Regarding Chairwoman Nora Vargas
The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly
An Open Letter from 1968 to 2024 Demonstrators
The Language We Use to Talk about AI
Labor History Month Celebrates Workers’ Contributions
Planting the Seeds of the Future
Request for Transparency in San Diego County's Chief Administrative Officer Selection Process
San Diego’s Budget Crisis and the Poverty of Our Political Imagination
The Not So Secret (But Still Widely Unknown Lives of TK-12 Public School Teachers
When It Rains, It Pours — On the Poor Most of All
The Democratic Party, the Working Class, and the Culture War
Tell Your San Diego or Tijuana Story, Whether it Be Sunshine or Noir
When Will We End the Hypocrisy?
The Not So Secret (But Still Widely Unknown) Lives of TK-12 Public School Teachers
Septima Poinsette Clark (1898-1987)
San Diego-Imperial Counties Labor Council Endorses the California Workers’ Climate Bill of Rights
Obscure Burglary Case Shows Difficulty of Regulating Facial Rec
Antifa. Public Enemy Number One?
The Story of San Diego’s Vigilante-In-Chief: Ralph Van Deman and His Dangerous Legacy
Announcing the Union or Bust Podcast!
From the River to the Sea vs Judea and Samaria
The Not So Secret (But Still Widely Unknown) Lives of TK-12 Public School Teachers
San Diego Will Spare No Expense to Criminalize Poverty
This Was the Week that Was: Toward the End of April, 2024
Mark Your Calendars for the San Diego-Imperial Counties Labor Council's May Day March!
The Ghosts of American Labor’s Radical Past Speak Volumes About Our Future
The Democratic Party, the Working Class, and the Culture War in San Diego
John Sloan (1871-1951) and THE MASSES
The Not So Secret (But Still Widely Unknown) Lives of TK-12 Public School Teachers
Dispatches from the AI Dystopia
Securing Stability for San Diego’s Tenants
Notes on the Context of the Ukraine-MAGA-Russia Congressional Showdown
A Tale of Two Futures for American Labor: Upsurge or Systemic Dismantlement?
An Open Letter to San Diego from the Baristas of Better Buzz Hillcrest
Top 5 Need-to-Knows About “Pulling the Plug” on Dad
Election Integrity and Forgiveness from On High
Who Cares About San Diego Workers? Everybody Should
The San Diego-Imperial Counties Labor Council Calls for a Ceasefire in Israel and Palestine
UC San Diego Labor Center Launch this Friday, April 12th at 5 PM
Cannabis Workers at Eaze Prepare for Unprecedented Strike
Kennedy's 2024 Dangerous Delusion
from THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE GOOD: PART 3: THE GOOD
Da Shi and the Corporate Raiding of the California Community College
Mitigating Our Misery in a Sea of Misinformation
Texas Secedes from The United States
Why I’m Learning to Love Corporate Democrats
Baseball, Community, and the Meaning of the Crowd
from THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE GOOD: PART 2: THE BAD
Sorry, Bill Maher, There Really Is a War on Women
from THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE GOOD: Part 1: THE GOOD (ROSE PASTOR STOKES, 1879-1933)
The Democratic Party, the Working Class, and the Culture War
"Are you better off than you were four years ago?" -- GOP Rep. Rep. Elise Stefanik
Digital Gym Cinema Spotlights Austrian Auteur, Jessica Hausner
Chasing the Ghosts of San Diego’s Past in "Drift"
The Feminine Face of GOP Fascism: Katie Britt’s Strange, Deep Kitchen
A Future for San Diego’s Roads Means Everybody Gets a Chance
The Poetry of Liberation: Remembering raúlrsalinas on His 90th Birthday
Lord, Save Me from the Techno-Optimists!
Lauren C & the Queen of the Underworld
Election Stress Disorder and the State of the Union
Posts Featured in The March 4, 2024 Inaugural Edition of The Jumping-Off Place
Call the Midwife! At Least the Publishing Kind…
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The Militant Revival of California Labor
Teaching the Mundanity of Activism