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Memento Mori: We Are the Stories We Tell Ourselves
Ghazal for The Dharma Bum Temple 05/01/24
PRIDE, Kehlani, Mamdani, and Democratic Party Leader Boycotts
July 17-26: Good Trouble in San Diego
Contingency and Transient America: Fight Contingency Now!
Reflections Inspired by a Few Days at Lake Tahoe
What California Labor History Has to Say About the New York City Mayor’s Race
The American Federation of Teachers National Drinks the Kool-Aid
Red States Encouraged to Build More Concentration Camps
Under the Black Flag: On Pirates, A Romance
Las Jergas: Rosa Hernandez Performance at Bread and Salt by Claudia Cano
Déjà Vu Telling Me We Still Have a Lot of Work to Do
Ralphs, Albertsons, Vons, and Pavilions Workers Reach Tentative Agreement on New Contract
Anatomy of a Decertification Drive, Part Three
You Don’t Need a Weatherman to Explain the Texas Flooding
Hypernormalization Blues or How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Fascism
What Paloma Aguirre’s Win Means for the San Diego Board of Supervisors and the Region
This Dumpster Fire of a Reichstag Fire
Jesus and Andina Doing the Small Things for the Resistance
Anatomy of a Decertification Drive, Part Two
Gathering Mass (ZOH-MENTUM edition)
Zohran Mamdani and the Populist Poetry of Hope
Mask On, Mask Off, Mask On Again: A Coronavirus Quiz
The (Vainglorious) Beneficence of Lady Bountiful? The Contradictory Life of Lillian Wald
Anatomy of a Decertification Drive
A Ceasefire Band Aid for the Middle East
And Now, War with Iran: Another Week, Another Crisis
I Have Never Met a Man Who Was Quite Awake
Now That No Kings Protests Are Past…
Contingency and Transient America: Proper Protest Nonsense
From in a Funk to Life Feeling Funky
Justice for Janitors: Organizing Immigrant Workers (Part Two)
Union Grocery Workers Vote YES to Authorize ULP Strike
Notes from the Road: No Kings (Except Kamehameha) Day in Hawaii
Rasquache Style: How Mexicans Make Art Out of Anything
My Homies Doing the Right Thing
The Union or Bust Podcast: Dr. Bruce Ware, Green Candidate for CA Governor
Say It Ain’t So, Mayor Gloria!
Unfair Labor Practice Strike Authorization Vote for Union Grocery Workers
Not On Our Watch: Updates on the ICE Raid in San Diego
Fascism Came to Our Neighborhood
Neither Here Nor There: San Diego and the Noir of Nowhere
Countdown to No Kings Day ~ San Diego Resistance Calendar May 29 - June 8, 2025
So Glad to Have Tavian, a Dear Friend’s Grandson, as a Fellow Hall of Famer
Immigration Trumpstapo Defiling Due Process with Courthouse Arrests
It’s Top-Down Class War, Stupid
Resistance Calendar May 22- 31, 2025 + San Diego 'No Kings' June 14 Events
My Loved Ones Were the Highlight of My 87th Birthday
AI is Evil and Should Never Be Used by Anyone Ever
The Circle of Life in Places with Unknowable Answers
May Gray in San Diego and Big Budget Blues in California: Will We Rise to the Challenge?
May 15 - 25 San Diego Resistance Calendar
Contingency and Transient America: 525
Gathering Mass (An Electoral Campaign for Us)
87, and So Glad to Still be Around
"Running" by Alessandra Moctezuma in Sunshine/Noir III: Writing from San Diego and Tijuana
Gathering Mass (Or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the cringe)
Justice for Janitors: Organizing immigrant workers
A Comment the UT Chose Not to Publish
"Red Kate": Prison Reform, Socialism, and Race in the Life of Kate O'Hare
What Would We Do Without Beauty?
President's Mental Health Questioned Amid a Sea of Stupidity
Last Sunshine/Noir III: Writing from San Diego and Tijuana Reading...For Now!
The San Diego Free Speech Fight by Gus Blanco, Who Went Through the Fight from Start to Finish
Celebrate the Release of Sunshine/Noir III and Twenty Years of City Works Press
Fighting for a First Contract, Part Three
Basking in the Warmth of Eric Allen’s Smile
San Diegans, Take the Streets on MayDay!
A TALE OF THREE EVENTS: Democrats, Labor, and Street Demonstrations in San Diego
A Little Hallmark ‘Holiday” of Horrors on Day 100
The Perpetual Limbo of Literary San Diego
Fighting for a First Contract, Part Two
Due Process and First Amendment Rights Support Harvard’s Defense
Hands Off Earth Day! Join us to stand up to Lee Zeldin and Trump!
Fighting Oligarchy and “End Times Fascism”
"More Danger" by Stephen-Paul Martin in Sunshine/Noir II: Writing from San Diego and Tijuana
Our President Commits Treason All Day Everyday
History By Dummies, or, Why Labor History Matters
April 19 Rallies Pop Up All Over
We Can Not Be Silent About Due Process
Join San Diego Labor for a Day of Resistance on the National Day of Action on April 19th!
Notions of Keeping Our Planet Safe for Human Life
Contingency and Transient America: "A New Day in Otay: An Adjunct Poem"
May Day, General Strikes, and Labor Ramping Up
A Would-be Emperor's Stupid Set of Tariffs
Paloma Aguirre Is the Kind of Change San Diego Needs
"Eastern Lights" by Justin Hudnall from Sunshine/Noir II: Writing from San Diego and Tijuana
Linda McMahon Trump’s Education Hatchet Woman in San Diego
America's Labor Unions Are Joining the April 5 Hands Off Mobilization
Solidarity Is the Only Way to Win the Future
Jimmy Santiago Baca and Michael Wickert From Sunshine/Noir II: Writing from San Diego and Tijuana
An Incomplete, Episodic, and Still Evolving Timeline of U.S. Gender and Sexuality History
They’re Coming for OUR Social Security Benefits
Killing Free Speech to Silence Environmental Activism and Public Protest
From Vanishing Acts: A Tragedy by Forrest Hylton
How Do We Defeat the Fascists?
Some Hope-Inspiring Young Folks have Become Heroes of Mine
Local 2500 and the Ku Klux Klan
Protesting the Present to Build a Future
Trump’s Threat to Our Basic Civil Liberties is a Real and Present Danger
"Woman with Starch" by Wayne Lee
Feeling Good Vibes from a Trip to Austin
Special Election Voter Guide: San Diego County Supervisor District 1
Canada: ‘Elbows Up’ to Trump the Bully
A New Lost Generation in the Age of Trump?
"Washing Clothes: A Brief History" by Jackie Bartley
“Voces Rurales,” a Program for Latinas that Models what Reaching Out Is All About
The Sorry State of Trump-o-nomics
Will San Diego Raise the Wage for Tourism Workers?
Baby Classes: Mommy and Me Yoga, Loneliness, and the Growth of the Infant Brain by Sam Apple
Why the Chula Vista School Board Mess Matters
Contingency and Transient America Part Four: The March We Need
Double-Crossed at the Bargaining Table, Part Two
The War on Drugs Is Back, Baby!
Jim Miller of The Jumping-Off Place reads for San Diego State’s Living Writers Series
Rolling Back the Twentieth Century: The Endgame of the Trump Tax Cuts
"Strapping" and "'Tis Morning Makes Mother a Killer" by Wanda Coleman
Freedom, Democracy, and Student Rights: Mario Savio's Legacy
I Hope Kendrick Got His Message Across
Double-Crossed at the Bargaining Table
The Climate Crisis and Mass Migration: Trump is Marching Us Towards a Dystopian Final Solution
From "Dynamite and Dreams," a Novel by Robert V. Hine
Southern California Grocery Workers Are Rising for Fair Wages and Better Working Conditions
Contingency and Transient America Part Three: Student Precarity
An Old Skyscraper, unlike our President, Promotes Uniting Us
An Interview with Ernie McCray
The Conditions for Teaching and Learning to Happen
The True Cost of Musk's Madness
San Diego Labor Endorses Paloma Aguirre for County Board of Supervisors, District 1
Photo Essay:"50 Protests, 50 States, 1 Day" Rallies Across the Country
“A Complete Unknown:” a Review
Trump Stalls North American Trade War
Nightmare in a Hall Before the MLK Celebration
Nurturing the Heart by Edward Espe Brown
ACTWU vs. The Great Pension Rip-off
A Crypto Bubble Ready to Burst
A Memorable MLK Day Celebration
How Did Trump’s First Week Help Working People?
The Blessings of Dirty Work by Barbara Kingsolver
No One Will Save Us but Ourselves
A Short List of Essential Readings on Fascism
Teams playing a Role in Helping a City That’s Aflame
ANALYSIS OF EXECUTIVE ORDERS ISSUED ON JAN 20, 2025
Words From Sane People About What Happened on January 20, 2025
Martin Luther King Jr.’s Class Politics Might Just Be the Antidote to Trump
Teachers on Strike: The First Time
Memories of Nancy Rising Out of the Ashes of the Fires
The Democratic Party Needs a Better Plan
Los Angeles and the Truth Burns Out of Control as the Rich Prepare to Get Ever Richer
Still Me, After All These Years
Recent Acts of Terrorism May Contribute to Strong Man Rule
Optimism of the Will: How Labor Can Survive and Ultimately Thrive in the Trump Era