An Open Letter to Portland City Commish Nick Fish
To The Honorable Portland City Commissioner Nick Fish:You stated in a recently televised interview that the people have no right to stop the workings of their government. This, sir, with all due...
View ArticleChanging Our Language
With everything that is happening around the Trump inauguration and all that it seems to be encompassing, I think one thing that needs to be addressed is our language. The Right Wing has been using...
View ArticleAwareness of How We Use Language
Change scares some people and, let’s admit it, having an African-American president was quite the change from his melanin-lacking predecessors. It must have been even more of a shock to Trump’s and to...
View ArticleAmerican Slavery
A little perspective on this whole, scary, Trumpster era we find ourselves in: I have studied American history for a minute and have come to the following hypotheses about White Americans’ ideas and...
View ArticleEight Hours of Work, 8 Hours of Leisure, 8 Hours of Rest: A brief look at...
At the turn of last century, workers unionized to force a change in their workplace conditions. Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle that highlighted the plight of new immigrants as well as some of the...
View ArticleImmigration question on the census
Alors, petits … j’ai une question pour vous: if you are White, how long has your family been in this country?If your family has only been here for two generations, would you consider ‘self-deporting’...
View ArticlePower: What does it mean to you?
In a diary I posted here, I got into a an off-track discussion about what power is with one of the commenters. After reading what the commenter wrote and thinking about how said commenter used the...
View ArticleA State Senator from Connecticut
Just really briefly, this whole thing with changing the white guys' name of Mount McKinley back to the Athabaskan (or Den'ai peoples of Alaska) name of Denali is ridiculous for many reasons. I know how...
View ArticleAn American Story of Family and Racism**
I've been thinking a lot about racism, the politics of it all and American history. I had to kick this idea around for a minute before getting the idea clear enough to write about, but this is still a...
View ArticleYou Pay How Much in Rent?!?!?!?!
A bit about myself before I launch into what could be a rather contentious (I hope that it is more thought-provoking than contentious) group of issues that seem to be tied together in rather an...
View ArticlePetition for "You Pay How Much in Rent?!?!?!?!"
So, usually a call to start a petition gets a Gallic shrug and a smirk from me. But, two different commenters at my previous diary entitled You Pay How Much in Rent mentioned either drawing up a...
View ArticleSpent about 10 minutes trying to figure out how to write a diary.
Really? This is the format they’ve gone with? While having things spread out a bit more is nice, the white background is making my eyes water, the gray text is straining my eyes and the layout of the...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Portland City Commish Nick Fish
To The Honorable Portland City Commissioner Nick Fish:You stated in a recently televised interview that the people have no right to stop the workings of their government. This, sir, with all due...
View ArticleChanging Our Language
With everything that is happening around the Trump inauguration and all that it seems to be encompassing, I think one thing that needs to be addressed is our language. The Right Wing has been using...
View ArticleAwareness of How We Use Language
Change scares some people and, let’s admit it, having an African-American president was quite the change from his melanin-lacking predecessors. It must have been even more of a shock to Trump’s and to...
View ArticleAmerican Slavery
A little perspective on this whole, scary, Trumpster era we find ourselves in: I have studied American history for a minute and have come to the following hypotheses about White Americans’ ideas and...
View ArticleEight Hours of Work, 8 Hours of Leisure, 8 Hours of Rest: A brief look at...
At the turn of last century, workers unionized to force a change in their workplace conditions. Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle that highlighted the plight of new immigrants as well as some of the...
View ArticleImmigration question on the census
Alors, petits … j’ai une question pour vous: if you are White, how long has your family been in this country?If your family has only been here for two generations, would you consider ‘self-deporting’...
View ArticleRephrasing the healthcare debate
So, it has been a little while since I last wrote anything of note. Let me first say that last night’s Democratic debates with moderates and progressives was frustrating to watch. Especially when it...
View ArticleContract Negotiations: Why labor needs to stick together
I know, I know. It’s been a while since I sat down and wrote anything. I’ve been a little busy working for TriMet, Portland’s public transit company. It’s been an interesting few years, to say the...
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