Justin Bieber gets Anne Frank
I can’t believe I’m doing this, but I am going to defend Justin Bieber. The singer, who for some reason is immensely popular right now with girls around the age …
April 4
An email from my friend Batch, director of the Oklahoma City Peace House: To commemorate this April 4th memorial of Martin Luther King’s assassination, a friend sent me this 9-minute …
Oklahoma's good old days
Oklahoma was once a hotbed of radical labor organizing. I say, let’s take our state BACK! If the image doesn’t display, see 1/20/2011 event here: www.snipr.com/okcprogcal Update/Caveat: I don’t know …
Dangerous memories
I came across an interesting “diary” blog post at Booman Tribune, one of the sites I read daily, about a memory Rosa Parks recalled of an experience she had at …
Sisterhood is powerful!
That was the rallying cry, back in the day. And by so claiming, and believing, they were powerful. It was an amazing period of history, when women got fed up …
David Rovics does OKC, awesomely, but probably wonders why he bothered
And of course, few in OKC bother to support this talented progressive singer songwriter. Next time someone complains that OKC doesn’t get included in such tours, I’ll just ask, well, …
Palestinian Human Rights talk by co-founder of ISM
Just got back from an AMAZING talk by Huwaida Arraf, co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement. She spoke for two hours about her own experience as a Palestinian-American who went …
Getting religion
I went to a Catholic High School, not because I had gone to Catholic grammar school (I didn’t) and not because I or my family was particularly religious (we weren’t), …
Saint Romero of the Americas*
“If they kill me, I will be resurrected in the Salvadoran people” Archbishop Oscar Romero was assassinated as he celebrated mass in San Salvador on March 24, 1980, 30 years …