Recently I was invited to speak at a conference marking the 50th anniversary of the Port Huron Statement. Never heard of it? In 1962, at a...
In the summer of 1963 between high school and college I badly needed a job. A friend from my class at Hollywood High School, who thought...
Whenever a friend visits from out of town I take them for a stroll down Venice Beach where the diversity of Los Angeles is on brilliant...
I spent last Saturday morning at the five-acre Annenberg Community Beach House complex which, as far as I know, is the only publicly accessible beach facility...
I could be a hopeless optimist, but it seems that more people are thinking deeply about the kinds of lives they want to lead as life...
As Janet Heinritz-Canterbury of the California Alliance for Retired Americans explains it, retirement in America has historically rested on a three-legged stool – the pension from ...
A recent weekend became a lesson in the new global economy. For two days I emptied out much of the accumulated “stuff” from my garage –...
First my boss at the suburban YMCA told me I was fired as a youth worker. Then he said he had been visited by a federal...
One of my weekend pleasures is a morning with the Sunday New York Times. I used to feel reading it was disloyal to my hometown, Los...
What does the 1970s feminist art movement have to do with Occupy Wall Street? Quite a bit, I found out when I recently attended Still Doin’...
(Editor’s Note: Yesterday Peter Dreier compared this year’s breakout film, The Help, to an earlier but more accurate Hollywood portrayal of the civil rights movement. Today...
Ten members of the Irvine 11 were sentenced last week to community service, fines and probation for disrupting a speech by the Israeli ambassador on the...
I was recently asked to take part in a “role play” for a group of Hyatt hotel housekeepers in the basement of their union hall, in...
I used to love Amazon.com. After a book group meeting I’d run home and order a used copy of the next book we were reading, sometimes...