A. ELECTION NIGHT — April 6, 2021 Even though I’m retired from professional gardening, I still keep gardener’s hours. When the local election results were delayed the other night (April 6, 2021), I had a hard time staying up. But there was a lot at stake in this election. Plus, I had publicly endorsed two […]
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Local elections in Evanston, IL are on April 6, 2021. This is a pop-up newsletter to provide practical information, to facilitate participation, and to highlight big picture issues by connecting our local issues with larger jurisdictions (county, state, regional, national, world). To:Evanston voters Evanston candidatesEvanston mediaEvanston political groupsEvanston activists in my networksResidents of my neighborhood (Nichols […]
Local elections in Evanston, IL are on Feb. 23, 2021 (primary) and April 6, 2021 (general). This is a pop-up newsletter to provide practical information, to facilitate participation, and to highlight big picture issues. CONTENTS of this newsletter: CITY CODE (aldermanic powers & duties), LOCAL FOOD SYSTEMS (components, examples, resources), U.S. SENATE CONFIRMATION HEARING (Secretary […]
According to The Buffalo Chronicle published on May 5, 2020, “More than any other case, Ginsberg [sic] regrets her decision in Oneida vs Sherill (2005) — a case in which she drafted a majority 8-to-1 opinion that Native Americans have viewed as a callously racist denial of justice ever since.” I think it would be extremely helpful […]
UPDATE: March 29, 2021It seems as if there might have been a good reason for Dr. Lee’s erratic “organizing” over the last year or so. At some point during 2020, she was fired by Yale for her Tweets about Trump (and perhaps about Alan Dershowitz’s “shared psychosis”). It seems as if she spent the better […]
Quote Tweet, Dec. 20, 2020: Dr. Bandy Lee: “What do you do when there isn’t [an ounce of decency left in GOP…to tell Trump to stop planning a coup or he’ll be removed from office in accordance with the Constitution–Tom Nichols]? This is when arrest, or a mental health hold, becomes necessary. To continue to pretend […]
The question at hand: Is the U.S. food & farm movement a JUSTICE movement? For those on the COMFOOD listserv, I think you’ll agree that we recently witnessed an important moment in the maturing towards that goal. Even as survivors were forced to retell and relive their pain, we should all be honored and grateful […]
This is my second update on the quasi-public meltdown of Food First, a 45-year old food & farm organization based in Oakland, CA. For reasons only history will tell, Food First is now the latest poster child for chronic disfunctions in the U.S. food & farm non-profit world. As I stated in my first Update on Food […]