It has been an honor to write this column for ROAR for the past year. I will continue fighting the hate with my words and by attending marches and rallies. I will continue to support the organizations that fight hate on a daily basis, like Read More …
Labor Unions Still Fighting for their Workers Ever since Ronald Regan was president, unions have been dying off. Killed, really. The labor movement in the United States grew out of the need to protect the common interest of workers. For those in the industrial sector, Read More …
New Year’s Revolution (This is not a typo. Let’s resolve to revolt!) We have survived 2017. This is the year we will overturn the Republican Congress, filling its ranks with Democrats from across the nation. With a Democratic Congress, we can #resist President Trump’s malicious Read More …
Good News Roundup Today’s column will be the last Fight this Hate published in 2017. We’ve been fighting hate all year long, every week since Inauguration Day. How are we doing? Most of us are battle weary; some of us are scarred. All of us Read More …
California Fire Season extended… Climate change means fire season no longer ends in October. In fact, it appears the firefighters will be battling blazes throughout the holidays this year. The Thomas Fire has now burned more than 230,000 acres and is creeping toward Santa Barbara Read More …
A New Non-Violent Resistance Movement? In North Carolina, William J. Barber II, pastor of the Greenleaf Christian Church announced “a new moral movement to challenge the enmeshed evils of systemic racism, poverty, the war economy, ecological devastation and America’s distorted national morality.” Announced fifty years Read More …
#HimToo It would be easier to write a list of all the men I’ve ever known who didn’t commit some degree of sexual harassment. If you are female or non-binary, you instinctively know the degrees. It begins with gender stereotyping at birth (even before birth Read More …
Season of Extra Helpings of Greed By the time you read this column, you will have survived Thanksgiving Day, Black Friday, and the first weekend of the holiday shopping frenzy. What lies ahead are weeks of (wanted or unwanted) Christmas music blaring from every elevator, Read More …
Transgender woman murdered The 25th transgender person of the year has been murdered. She was murdered in Macon, Georgia, near where she lived. She had been missing for three days before she was found at the end of the driveway, shot to death. Candace Towns Read More …
The New Three Rs: Reduce, Reuse, Repeat Once we had Reading, wRiting, and aRithmetic. Then we had Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. But it is time for to ditch the Recycle and simply repeat Reduce and Reuse forever. Why? Because recycling is not working. And why Read More …