Another World Is Possible
While looking forward to a new year, I remembered a poem called Ojalá by the late Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano. The Spanish word “ojalá” means “if only.” I feel lucky to have attended a lecture by Eduardo Galeano in 2013, two years before he passed. His many books included The Open Veins of Latin America, […]
Florence Nightingale, social reformer, statistician (!), and the founder of modern nursing, said, “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.” Her “no excuses” policy seems like a great lesson for everyone, but don’t get me wrong. I know very well there are reasons — systemic reasons — that affect […]
Billions of people want to “Go Green.”The confusion is, just what does that mean? What can we do? It’s not hard to deduce:we can reuse and recycle but the key is REDUCE! We’ve heard from Thoreau, “As you simplify your life,”you’ll undoubtedly have less toil and strife. But can we be happy, and still “save […]
“How will we pay for it?” That is their question. This past month, I recommended The Deficit Myth, Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy, by Stephanie Kelton (2020), in my “Great Reads for Our Times – with a Dose of Hope” blog. I received some push back, and I felt compelled […]
Please consider reading The Deficit Myth by Stephanie Kelton! It’s enjoyable and eye-opening. Have you ever wondered exactly why the US federal government supposedly has huge, terrible deficits, so they cannot fund healthcare, education and infrastructure, and then suddenly the US finds enough money to bail out Wall Street banks, wage wars and foreign interference, […]
The Personal My blogs are almost always purely political, but this one is a little more personal. My Facebook page is also mostly political, but the post that got more likes and comments than any other post was personal: the selfie you see of me and my daughter, musician Natalia Rogovin. It makes me smile. […]
This year, my holiday greeting is Healthy New Year! My biggest wish is for everyone to have great motivation to do what we all can do uniquely — and in solidarity — for a better world, especially for those people whose days of birth happened much later than our own. What can we do? Many crucial steps […]
This blog is in two sections, first, a look at why state propositions were approved or not, and then a look forward toward solutions we actually can implement starting in 2021. My November blog email “Why landslide for Democratic PRESIDENT, and majority for Republican PROPOSITIONS?” received 60-some thought-provoking responses. People agreed that many voters were […]
Why do you think California voted overwhelmingly — by a margin of 30 points — for the Democratic PRESIDENTIAL candidate Joe Biden over Republican Donald Trump, at the same time that California voted more in line with Republican endorsements than with Democratic endorsements on state PROPOSITIONS? In other words, at the same time that the […]
BALLOTS ARE ARRIVING… … for everyone in California, and for many across the country. Look in the Green Voter Guide to help with CA state propositions and other races. You will find a “voter card” HERE. For a link to a PDF of the entire publication, see the line above the “Please note” paragraph. CHECK […]