Another World Is Possible
This question has deep relevance. In my first BLOG after returning from the Alliance for Global Justice “End Venezuela Sanctions” delegation, my goal was to provide the most fundamental information possible about what we can do as a government and as citizens of the United States. Most people in Venezuela and the U.S. can agree […]
I just returned from 11 days in Venezuela, my sixth trip there since 2005. Many people have asked me how they can understand what’s really happening in Venezuela based on information from public institutions such as the U.S. government and the mainstream media. Sources they have used include television ranging from Fox News to MSNBC […]
Hope. That’s it, in one word. And there’s more! I am writing this because many people have been asking – and have been worried – about my planned trip to Venezuela. The political delegation – 20 people from 7 countries – will be in Venezuela from March 28 through April 7. * * * I […]
I received many different reactions from people when they first heard I had won the June primary write-in campaign and would be facing Barbara Lee in November. As you can imagine, some people were shocked that anyone would challenge the most progressive congressperson in Washington. Others, however, immediately started sharing with me their everyday struggles and challenges […]
A platform of integrated policies Why was there a New Deal in the Great Depression of the 1930s and none in the Great Recession that started in 2008, the year Obama was elected president? In the 1930s there were huge organizations that were on the side of regular people. They applied pressure on Franklin Roosevelt […]
Serve the People Not Corporations How do you get the government to serve people and not corporations? One way is to change the laws. Grassroots organizations “left and right” have been working for years to get money out of politics by changing laws. Another way is for voters and candidates to to take it on ourselves […]
System Change Not Climate Change On a personal level, it seems I have always been reluctant to characterize myself as anything ending in “ist”. In my twenties, I’m sure everyone could tell I was a feminist; I always believed that girls and women were not valued equally, and we should be. But I didn’t call […]
Tax the Rich and End the Wars There are solutions to the problems we face, and they often cost money. Right up front, however, we need to say real solutions donotalways cost more. Look at how utterly ineffective the war on drugs has been, with expensive militarization and excessive incarceration. Also look at the cost […]
My name is Laura Wells and I’m running for Congress in California’s District 13 as a Green Party candidate. I am running because we need to raise our expectations and use our power to challenge a system that refuses to provide the very basics for us, in this, the richest country on earth. Barbara Lee […]
Our democracy is based on GOTV, Getting Out The Vote, and we did it! Most of the grand total of 5,239 write-in votes went to cartoon characters, dogs, or others who did not do the paperwork. Of those who did become “qualified” write-in candidates, I received 832 votes, followed by a Republican with 178 votes, […]