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No Salary But Thank You:  Homeless Help Homless Dumped By UCLA Medical Center

In 2003 and briefly in 2004 I hosted a radio talk show on WHPK 88.5 FM Chicago called The Smoking Gun.  This is a lost episode recently salvaged from October 7, 2003  #booksnotbombs

The Smoking Gun on WHPK 88.5 FM Chicago - Lost Episodes

The Second Anniversary of the War in Afghanistan

We too, white men, together with everyone, have a responsibility to fight sexism, racism, and injustice, whether in everyday public spaces, at work, or in civic discourse.  

Brief moments like this one below reminds me how it all fits together, the mentality we are up against, and the beating heart that propels us all, in courageous resistance, through the fear, doubt, and terror screamed out and amplified daily on all our devices.

It was nine thirty in the morning on the Los Angeles Metro’s Red Line, a Saturday morning in mid-December.

My friend called said he was going to the teacher’s rally downtown, as did many others who care about their communities.  So there I was, on a crowded train, headed downtown.

Read it here: https://thewordaliveandactive.com/2018/12/23/the-looming-los-angeles-teachers-strike-why-should-you-support/

A Incident on the Train Headed to the Teachers Rally Downtown

Family history as refugees from Nazi Germany informs our actions and outlook.

Why I Organize

Reading the account of Dr Charles Steinberg, volunteer with the Refugee Health Alliance https://refugeehealthalliance.org/ https://thewordaliveandactive.com

Reflections of Dr Charles Steinberg at the Tijuana Border

Interview with Chicago Teachers Union Executive Board Member and CPS Elementary School Special Education teacher Katie Osgood.  Published on https://thewordaliveandactive.com Speak the Word.  Stay Alive.  Stay Active.

It's July 31st, 2019.  It's mid-summer in the City of Chicago, and something is blowing in the wind.  Chicago's Balbo Drive, named in 1933 for a General of fascist dictator Benito Mussolini fascist general of Mousolini  has been renamed for the American investigative reporter Ida B. Wells, whose documentation of lynchings of American blacks and solidarity with Jewish immigrants fleeing Russian Cossack terrorism led her to become an American Folk Hero.

On this sunny Chicago day, blocks from the lakefront in leafy Hyde Park, a few blocks from a former home of Louis Farrakhan, and a few blocks from the University of Chicago, where at the site of the Regenstein Library, J. Robert Oppenheimer and Enrico Fermi first split an atom in the first human-made nuclear chain reaction, Special Education teacher Katie Osgood reflects on seven years a Chicago teacher, the struggle of black students in Chicago, and building a more perfect union, so that We The People can make right what was wrong, straighten the crooked, and all sing a song of the American Dream.

Word on the Street.  Stay Alive.  Stay Active

Interview with Katie Osgood a Chicago Special Education Teacher

Chicago Teachers Union Charter school division president speaks on the strikes of the 2018-2019 school year at a summer barbecue.

Chris Baehrend on the Chicago Teachers Union "Kicking Ass for the Working Class"

Natasha, a special education teacher, talking about her school, the community it serves, and how dangerous under-staffing and lax building maintenance led to a poisonous Mercury spill last school year.

Understaffing and Mercury Spills in Chicago Public Schools

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Voices Of The Strikewave General Motors UAW.MP3

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