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Posts published by “Will Parrish”

A History Of Forgetting In Mendocino County

It took until March for a smattering of steelhead to run up flat-bottomed Gibson Creek, a watercourse that flows past the house where I live,…

Artesa’s Hired Gun

Artesa of Sonoma, a subsidiary of Spanish wine giant Codorniu, has a public image crisis on its hands, and on a scale few wine companies…

Albion! The History

In the introduction to his 1965 book The Making of the English Working Class, English social historian E.P. Thompson described his motivation as being to…

‘We Are Stealing Because We Feel Like It’

An expedition of Lake County-based Anglo-Irish settlers landed ashore Rattlesnake Island, just offshore the Elem Pomo Indian Colony in Clearlake, this past Saturday — St.…

A Travesty Of A Mockery Of A Sham

The United States government's “compensation” to American Indians for past and present injustices typically amounts to what Groucho Marx called “a travesty of a mockery…

‘Full Court Press’ Or War On Immigrants?

From behind the glass partition in Yuba County Jail's basement visiting room, Ramiro Hernandez Farias speaks matter-of-factly about the incredible ordeal to which he has…

‘America’s Last Newspaper’

I decided to enroll in the journalism program at my alma mater, the University of California Santa Cruz, during the run-up to the invasion and…

Is Premier Pacific Vineyards Dead?

Some of the wealthiest and best-connected land speculators in the western hemisphere came together for a conference two months ago in Miami, from October 19-21,…

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