Another World Is Possible
“Give Peace a Chance” was in my mind as a title, but the strong youth movements happening now inspired me to change it to “Give YOUTH a Chance!” The campus encampments and uprisings are reminiscent of the sixties, but as NPR reported, “Two of the main differences: the U.S. doesn’t have boots on the ground […]
For more than two years, from early 2022 when people were focused on Russia and Ukraine, I have been stunned to hear people offhandedly say, by the way, “China is bad.” What? Can we love our country — the land and its people — and not be hostile to other lands and other people? Can […]
I love to say, only partly joking, that the ultimate feminist statement is “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun!” Immediately after that statement is the question, “So what is all this crap, and how can we clean it up, so we can have fun?” There’s a little more on “saving the world” further below. Meanwhile, just […]
February is Black History Month, followed by Women’s History Month in March. We can learn more about Blacks and women than just their history, and we can learn a lot from Blacks and women. Decades ago I read an article about how much co-workers knew about each other’s real agendas, their real wishes and desires […]
How can it be that those of us who do not want war are not getting what we want? We who do not want war are the majority. When South Africa brought its case to the International Court of Justice, there was some doubt that the court would rule in its favor, but the court […]
People want the world to be a better place. We ask each other questions like, “If you were ruler of the universe, what would you do?” FOLLOW THE MONEY When I’m asked what I would do, I find myself going back to slogans I’ve used in Green Party campaigns. The first was “Follow the Money.” […]
STUFF! A fond holiday wish of mine — in addition to hoping that people everywhere can celebrate gatherings with family and friends — is that on Friday, November 24, the annual Buy Nothing Day will grow in strength around the country and world. Buy Nothing Day has been celebrated since the 1990s to demonstrate to […]
When the phrase “CAN’T WIN” is applied to a candidate whose values you basically agree with, what is really being said is “YOU CAN’T WIN!” This is a system problem, not a problem of you as an individual. Those who want to concentrate money and power in their own hands spend a lot of energy […]
A friend and I have been debating Ukraine, and struggling to be respectful of our differing opinions. He asked me, “What would the Green Party — or you yourself — do about Ukraine if you were in power?” I’ll present this as my own perspective, which has certainly been clarified during three decades of Green […]
I’ve made a commitment — to myself really — to do a monthly blog. It started almost 4 years ago because things had gotten pretty bad in the US, across the board: peace, environment, justice, education, healthcare, and democracy. People’s expectations about what beneficial changes were even possible in the US were low, even though […]