Here are clips from United Nations International Day of Peace Celebrations. I enjoyed being part of Los Angeles’ Jane Goodall’s Roots and Shoots festivities at the Santa Monica Pier September 19th.

Two years ago, when I spoke at The Media Reform Conference in Minneapolis, the hard working folks at Free Press were warning us about this. The weak, conservative FCC has helped give Google even more power. And power corrupts. Read this from HuffPo and make your digital democracy voice heard. According to press reports, Google …Continue Reading

Just another reason I am proud to be on the Board of the ACLU of Southern California. LOS ANGELES – The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California today asked the FBI to turn over records related to the agency’s collection and use of race and ethnicity data in Southern California communities. The request is …Continue Reading

A Prayer for America I offer these brief remarks today as a prayer for our country, as a celebration of our country. With love of democracy. With love of our country. With hope for our country. With a belief that the light of freedom cannot be extinguished as long as it is inside of us. …Continue Reading

I don’t usually watch her;  she makes me uncomfortable in her ‘know it all but pretend to be humble’ persona on TV.    Now I know why. Oprah is apparently,  a  disa-phobe.   Phony in  her ‘magnanimous mom’ way of acting like she’s cool with physical anomaly. Maybe she’s only comfortable  with her own physical bag, the ‘large …Continue Reading