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Joined farmworkers and their supporters on Day 13 of their march. It began on Long Island and concludes in Albany – New York state’s capital – later this week. Yesterday we walked (at a pretty good pace) 13 miles to…
Couple days late, but happy birthday to the songwriter and poet extraordinaire – Bob Dylan
A good friend of many years wrote to me last week arguing that Hillary Clinton has the lion’s share of the responsibility to unify the Democratic Party. Hillary, he said, must substantively reach out to Bernie in both words and…
Harold Meyerson in American Prospect: I write this as a strong Sanders supporter (albeit one who never thought he could win the nomination), as a lifelong democratic socialist (indeed, for some years, Bernie and I were probably the two most…
The great Joni Mitchell combining the political/ecological and personal: “Hey farmer, farmer put away that DDT now, give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and bees.”