Feb 03 2009
As California’s financial crisis worsens, lawmakers are still polarized on the state’s budget. The treasury has been depleted, and the state’s controller has begun withholding payments and, instead, is issuing IOUs, which are leaving many Californians in dire circumstances. Some 2.7 million Californians won’t receive their income tax refunds this month. College aid has also been placed …
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Feb 03 2009
Even as it seems that we, as a humanity, have become even more violent over the past few decades, there’s evidence that people are not violent by nature. This we discussed last week in the first part of this series, “The Psychology of Resolving Global Conflict.” The twentieth century has been the bloodiest of all, but we …
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Feb 03 2009
The story of the struggle for the fourteen-acre community garden on the corner of 41st and Alameda in South Central Los Angeles is now an Oscar nominated documentary. Directed by Scott Hamilton Kennedy, “The Garden,” traces the fate of the South Central Garden when bulldozers razed the farming plots of immigrant families as the land was upheld …
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Feb 03 2009
“When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.” — Aldo Leopold …
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Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis Is Coming To Los Angeles!
Come and hear Varoufakis speak in person on Saturday April 23rd in Pasadena, California, at his ONLY Los Angeles-area event!
WHEN: Saturday April 23rd, Reception at 12 noon, Event at 1 pm
WHERE: Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church, 301 N. Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91103
Yanis Varoufakis of the Syriza Party took the European political establishment by storm a year ago when he was appointed Finance Minister of Greece by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. Varoufakis is an ……
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