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Easter Sunday, April 20, 2025 Dear “Cesar,[1]” This May Day, as I march with my union, the Berkeley Federation of Teachers, I…
Margot Pepper
Margot Pepper has been an educator for 31 years and her work has been published by Z-Magazine, Z-net, Common Dreams, Utne Reader, Counterpunch, Monthly Review, Dollars & Sense, Prensa Latina, NACLA, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, City Lights, Hampton Brown, Rethinking Schools, El Tecolote, El Andar and elsewhere. She is the author of a book of poetry, (At This Very Moment,) a memoir about her year working in Cuba during the Special Period, (Through the Wall: A Year in Havana), and most recently a dystopian science fiction thriller, American Day Dream.
Over the last few years, when it’s time to write 3rd grade opinion pieces to change the world as part of our…
Over the last few years, when it’s time to write 3rd-grade opinion pieces to change the world as part of our Lucy Calkins…
October 27, 2017 will mark the 70th anniversary of the first day that ten courageous screenwriters and directors, known as the Hollywood Ten, refused to answer illegal questions
One thing that is certain, regardless of their level of dissatisfaction, not a single Cuban I’ve ever talked to wants to replace their system with the inequitable capitalist economic system we have here in the United States
“If Trumbo has a weakness,” writes Tim Cogshell, “it’s the film’s failure to convey the depth and breadth of the Red Scare. Or the fact that it forever diminished America as an idea. America was less after the blacklist and that diminishment can be seen in the myriad investigations.”
If any movie deserves an Oscar this February 28, it is “Trumbo” with Bryan Cranston as best actor
César Chávez Day came and went without acknowledgment from most mainstream print media of a Chávez-inspired 365-mile march that lasted 48 days…
Recently, sending a message of resistance to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Berkeley and Oakland, California adopted sanctuary city measures disallowing…