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“The Roosevelts” Premieres on PBS
Ken Burns’s new documentary, “The Roosevelts: An Intimate History,” premieres on PBS on Sunday, September 14 and runs consecutive nights through September 20. The 7-part series interweaves the stories of Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt. “The Rising Road, 1933-1939,” which more
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Inequality for All
Robert Reich, the ubiquitous economist and Living New Deal’s Advisory Board member, is taking his message of economic inequality to the masses. Reich, a UC Berkeley professor and a prolific author, is also an accidental movie star. His documentary more
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Tagged "Inequality for All", Robert Reich, Susan Ives, Susan Ives Communications, The Living New Deal
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For Sale: America’s Historic Post Offices
Citizens protest at the Downtown Berkeley Post Office. Despite growing public protest, the U.S. Postal Service is moving apace to sell the public’s historic post offices. This summer, the Postal Service added four more post offices on the more
Oyster Update
The owners of the Drakes Bay Oyster Co at Point Reyes National Seashore announced they will fight the decision by the federal government to shut down their commercial aquaculture operation. Amid controversy, Interior Secretary Salazar had declined to renew the more
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Tagged Cause of Action, Charles Gl Koch Foundation, Drakes Bay oysters, Point Reyes Wilderness
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Reflections on the “Social Justice Hall of Fame”
In 2010, Peter Dreier’s article, “The Fifty Most Influential Progressives of the 20th Century,” appeared on the cover of The Nation. The piece drew an avalanche of praise and criticism for who made the list and who didn’t. The response more
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Tagged Caesar Chavez, civil rights, Franklin Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, Peter Drier, social justice, Springsteen
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Point Reyes National Seashore, embattled at 50
High Country News, Op-Ed – November 23, 2012 We’re supposed to be celebrating here at Point Reyes, a foggy enclave along the Northern California coast about an hour’s drive and a world away from San Francisco. Fifty years ago, President more
Remembering Wangari
Remembering Wangari Only a few days before the 1990 International Open Space Conference in Palo Alto, I got word that Wangari Maathai would be attending. Months earlier, I had invited the Kenyan professor to be the keynote speaker at the more
Believing out loud–The Op Ed Project
I have a standard excuse for postponing something I want for myself but don’t think I can have. “When I win the lottery…” Maybe you use it, too? In fact, my chances of ever winning the lottery would be at more
Soul of the Counterculture
Ted Roszak was 60 when we met in 1995. He was best known for writing “The Making of the Counterculture,” (1969), which recounts the social sea change sparked by the baby boomer generation. But it was his book “Ecopsychology,” that led me to interview him. more
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Tagged counterculture, ecopsychology, environmental communications, Ted Roszak
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