A new road to sustainability and you can help
I joined DailyKos over 10 years ago. It was necessary to keep my sanity. I thought we had all gone crazy in the build up to invade Iraq and I stumbled on this site and realized that there were people...
View ArticleHave we reached the tipping point? 3 minutes to midnight because of global...
I became aware of global warming (that is what I call it, not climate change a term coined by a Republican) back in 2006 when I wrote a diary about it;Cheney's 1% Doctrine and Global WarmingOver the...
View Article100 years of Birth of a Nation
If when you grow up you hear your parents say racist things at home they will stay with you until you make a conscious effort to disconnect with that mindset. If you don't, what your parents said will...
View ArticleGlobal warming, nuclear war, artificial intelligence and the end of the world.
In the XX Century, humanity became aware for the first time of the possibility of causing the end of the world by nuclear war. Dr. Strangelove made fun of total war but in the back of our minds we did...
View Article99 Rise does it again. 5 arrested in Supreme Court
99 Rise was founded about 3 years ago in Los Angeles by my friend Kai Newkirk.99 Rise is the tip of the spear in the movement to overturn Citizens United and get money out of politics.Today these five...
View ArticleSingle Payer Lobby Day in Sacramento on Monday. Join us.
The Single Payer movement is moving forward in California. We are kicking off the new strategy on Monday. The ultimate goal is to apply for a "waiver" under the ACA in 2017. For this we need several...
View ArticleOn May 19 a much better Democrat for the Senate in DailyKos HQ backyard
A special election on May 19 will determine whether Susan Bonilla or Steve Glazer gets to be a California Senator representing the 7th Senate district. Susan came 2nd in the March 17th primary....
View ArticleLA Kossacks venture to the Valley next Sunday
It's been a while and we need to regroup, discuss the state of affairs, come up with new ideas and have fun.On the fun side, we are going to try a potluck A potluck is a gathering of people where each...
View ArticleBernie Sanders, the progressive leader we have been waiting for, now leads a...
Yesterday I attended a "house party" at Mimi Kennedy's in the San Fernando Valley in Greater Los Angeles not to far from where I live. I've been to her house before, she is a progressive activist and...
View ArticleBernie Sanders connects with the right brains
America is as politically divided. More so than any time since the Civil War.On one side the Tea Party/GOP with its base of racists (since the Southern Strategy), theocrats (since Roe v. Wade and...
View ArticleLove to get your input for a website for Bernie
We expect the main BernieSanders.com will be soon relaunched.We are going to launch our website in the next few days; LosAngelesforBernie.org. If you try to go there now you'll get redirected to our...
View ArticleBernie Sanders' official statement on BLM in Seattle
“I am disappointed that two people disrupted a rally attended by thousands at which I was invited to speak about fighting to protect Social Security and Medicare. I was especially disappointed because...
View ArticleWe ran out of Bernie flyers
This was our first flyering event at the North Hollywood metro station, where the Red Line and the Orange Line meet.Some Berners found out about the action through BernieSanders.com others heard about...
View ArticlePlenty of Bernie flyers and even a table and a PA at NoHo
We are getting organized. The team of 10 Bernie volunteers showed up at the North Hollywood Metro station at 8:30AM yesterday. (Two missing in the photo because they were too busy talking to people...
View ArticleA big tent for Bernie in NoHo
Yesterday we did it for the 3rd time. The Bernie volunteers of the East San Fernando Valley got together at the North Hollywood Metro Station to do some flyering. There is a pattern, some volunteers...
View ArticleThe geopolitics of global warming
The term "global warming" is more descriptive but I accept "climate change". Here is a good discussion.I started educating myself about the threat when "global warming" was what I stumbled on.Recently...
View ArticleOwning a BMW while black, more proof of NYPD racism
I love BMWs, I believe they are the best car for your money. So seems to think NY banker Kamilah Brock. But there is a difference, she is black.I stumbled upon her story today and here it is;Woman...
View ArticleBernie explains income inequality... (new video)
The idea is to make this video go viral. Social media beats MSM.I also stumbled on this explanation of the diffenece between socialism and social democracy;
View ArticleThe front lines of Bernie's political revolution are fun (Updated)
The political revolution is on! The revolutionaries are getting things done, going through learning curves and having fun in the front lines.It's all happening with a minimum of central coordination...
View ArticleThe political revolution comes to Sepulveda and Ventura
So I scheduled a Honk for Bernie at the busiest intersection of the San Fernando Valley and perhaps all of Greater Los Angeles, Ventura and Sepulveda boulevards by the Sherman Oaks Galleria made famous...
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