After two years without Tom Waits on the music scene, he’s back! He joins Marc Ribot in a version of Bella Ciao (Goodbye Beautiful) with video by Jem Cohen. (h/t to AGD) [Read more…]
Candidate Canvassing Campaigns Blitzing the County | Progressive Activist Calendar September 14 – 24, 2018
With more than two dozen canvassing efforts planned for the coming days, Nathan Fletcher, Tommy Hough, Monica Montgomery, Dr. Jen Campbell, Ammar Campa-Najjar, Mike Levin, Todd Gloria, Chris Ward, Dr. Akilah Weber, Alejandra Sotelo-Solis, Mona Rios, Jose Rodriguez, Cori Schumaker, Tasha Boerner Horvath, James Elia, and Sunday Gover all want a little help from their friends with talking to voters throughout San Diego. And if you read through the listings below, you’ll find there’s also a celebrity coming to town to knock on doors.
Getting out the vote is serious business in San Diego this year. There’s still time to join campaigns. If you’re not able, be sure to be encouraging should they knock on your door. Contacting voters is the absolute best way to win an election and this level of pre-election activity is unprecedented in my experience.
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Climate Change, Clogged Drains, and Lorie Zapf
By Jordan Beane
On September 13th, the Union-Tribune released their interviews with our District 2 candidates, Dr. Jennifer Campbell and current District 2 City Councilmember Lorie Zapf. In Zapf’s interview, there were a lot of specific questions about the Climate Action Plan, it’s goals and more.
However, I believe the UT should have asked her a simpler question: Do you, Councilmember Zapf, believe in climate change?
Our Republican representative wants you to believe she cares about this existential threat and its impact on San Diego. She, along with the rest of the city council, voted to approve San Diego’s Climate Action Plan (CAP) in 2015. She mentioned the CAP in an op-ed. She even used the word “climate” in a tweet once (the only time she’s done so in 1,700+ missives). She and the Lincoln Club (San Diego’s version of the Koch Brothers) flooded the mailboxes of District 2 with the same two images of Zapf cleaning out the San Diego River, portraying our Republican representative as an environmental champion. [Read more…]
Political Golf Tip #1 | Geo-Poetic Spaces
His swing was long
before he teed off
The ball spun
into an unplayable lie
prior to the drive
The game lost
because of the player’s poorly executed pre-shot routine [Read more…]
Storm Surge Meets Virtual Reality Technology – The Weather Channel Animation | Video Worth Watching
The Weather Channel shared on its Twitter feed this impressive animation designed to illustrate the impact of various levels of storm surge. For the curious, Wired has the backstory on How The Weather Channel Made That Insane Storm Surge Animation, describing the technology that made the production of the video possible. [Read more…]
San Diego City Council District 4 | Cole vs. Montgomery: How to Make Black Lives Matter?
At the heart of District 4 are San Diego’s historically black communities, created in large part by property deeds limiting where people of color could buy or rent homes.
In 1969 a coalition calling itself BOMB: Black, Oriental, Mexican Brothers called a public meeting in Southcrest Park and began advocating for a civil rights advocate to be appointed to a vacated City Council seat.
The appointment and subsequent election of Leon L. Williams began a tradition of the District 4 seat being held by African-Americans. Five decades later, issues of race and repression are at the center of a contentious contest between a storied incumbent and her activist challenger. [Read more…]
From Classroom to Campaign – Taking the Next Step in Service to Community | Video Worth Watching
This campaign season has seen a number of teachers with their pedagogical training and experience take the next step in service to community by accepting the challenge of running for positions of public service. The Run for Something group released this video to encourage others to follow in their footsteps. [Read more…]
San Diego’s City Council District 2 | Republican Zapf vs Democrat Dr. Jen: Is a Change Gonna Come?
My coverage of the 2018 general election will focus on the City of San Diego over the next few days, starting with the City Council and moving on to ballot measures. Today’s topic is the District 2 contest between Lorie Zapf and Dr. Jen Campbell.
Let’s face it. For a city with a seemingly bright future and a terrific climate, if you had to pick a color to represent San Diego’s mood, it would be dark gray. When progressive things happen, they get tripped up by a petulant group of land speculators and scam artists entrepreneurs.
From an economic and political point of view, the “May Gray” is a year-round state of mind for all-too-many of us. All the promises of prosperity made over the past half-century compared to the ever increasing number of people who are economically challenged amount to a solid argument for why “trickle down” is a myth. [Read more…]
Everybody Wants to be Heard
I don’t remember how I first got on Facebook, but I’m glad I did because it’s worked for me.
I’ve learned to just scroll past all the ads, fabrications, fake news, and the like, and get right at what’s up with my “friends” who are mostly people I’ve known for some time and people who became my friends through them.
I like never knowing what I might find. It could be a sad story that makes you sigh, or a beautiful picture of someone’s grandchild that brings gentle tears to your eyes, or a meme that is wise, or one that’s not so wise. So many of them about ridding our lives of people who aren’t good for us.
And I’ve run across a few such people online from time to time, like a young woman who tore into me like a bull goring a matador – because I had the audacity to think it was okay for a woman to breastfeed her baby in public. [Read more…]
Jeff Griffith, Senate District 38 | Candidate Profiles for the November 2018 Ballot
Public service has always been a major part of my life. My father was a firefighter; I followed in his footsteps. I began my career 30 years ago in Ramona and am now a Fire Captain and a Paramedic.
I am not a career politician. My progressive beliefs developed early in my career as I saw the need for quality healthcare and came to see it as a right. I saw the power of unions to responsibly protect workers and working families. As a firefighter, it was easy to become an environmentalist and believer in climate change because of the lengthening fire season. That is why I am a Democrat, because the majority of Democratic Party values match my own orientation to the issues that are facing us.
President Trump Admin Took Millions From FEMA For ICE Detentions | Video Worth Watching
From the MSNBC YouTube website:
Senator Jeff Merkley talks with Rachel Maddow about a document showing that the Trump administration took ten million dollars from FEMA’s budget ahead of the 2018 hurricane season and gave it to ICE to pay for detentions.
San Diego Women Running for Office as Democrats
I’ve been searching for ways to highlight many of the local down-ballot candidates who readers might not be aware of. It’s easy to get overwhelmed by internet and tv ads touting big-name candidates for major offices, and when the time to fill in the ballot arrives, a bunch of unfamiliar names makes filling in many bubbles a crap shoot.
Today, I’m going to list women running for local offices as Democrats in San Diego County, along with basic contact information when available, going you the opportunity to learn more. While I intend to provide additional coverage on these candidates, there is simply no way I’ll get to all of them.
While there is nothing guaranteeing a woman running for office will be a better choice (every group has its outliers), I can say with certainty we certainly can’t do worse than we are these days.
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