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Heroes

The end of May saw another school yard shooting. Fifteen year-old Thomas Solomon, Jr., “a quiet, churchgoing Boy Scout,” marched into his Conyer, Georgia school and popped off a dozen or so rounds from a…

Grandpa Munster Is Alive & Radical at 87!

From a recent interview with Al Lewis (Grandpa Munster) published by the New York City anarchist newspaper, “The Shadow,” issue #43. “Besides being a Talmudic scholar, Al Lewis has devoted his life to social and…

Suburban School Violence

“If you look back on high school as the happiest days of your life, you got a big fucking problem.” — Stephen King Some thoughts about the school-yard shooting in Littleton, Colorado: It would be…

Steelworkers and Environmentalists: An Exuberant Alliance

Grateful tears welled up in the eyes of many of the hundreds of listeners last January in Eureka, California, at the hearings on MAXXAM corporation’s management plan for its 211,000 acres, when Don Kegley, millworker…

One Man Died, One Man Didn’t

This is a story of two men who were condemned by the state of California.  Both were war heroes. Both had a family history of insanity. Both turned to crime after leaving military service —…

My Favorite Loss

It was just me and my son Riley leading the 17th Annual Boontling Classic 5K runners west on Anderson Valley Way to the turnaround. As we hit the mile in 5:36, I said, “Just like…

Boating Down Oak Street

Fort Bragg urchin diver Joe Roberts came before the Fort Bragg City Council in March to oppose what seemed to be a minor change to the town's General Plan  for one parcel in east Fort…

Fun on Amtrak

Boy, did our friends envy us. We were headed off on a cross-country rail journey via Amtrak, whose shiny bright brochures promised a return to the thrilling days “when getting there was just as much…

The INS Department of Redundancy Department

In my last article entitled “INS: Inept, Negligent & Stupid” I described the confusing and complex hoops one must jump through just to apply for a fiancé visa for a loved one. But that was…

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