Communities Should Champion Green Energy
by Katie Bonnett During the months of April and May, at the onset of the coronavirus outbreak, LA “ha[d] some of the cleanest [air] of any major city [in the United States].” Normally air pollution can lead to health issues such as “stress to the heart and lungs. . Read more…
Book Picks for February 2021
Announcing our Februay book picks: One of Us: conjoined twins and the future of normal by Alice Domurat Dreger and Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh
Democracy is a Process
by Aubrey L. Hicks, Executive Director, Bedrosian Center Democracy isn’t a state of being, it is a process. To be democratic, to live in democracy, is to participate boldly with our neighbors in governance. What we saw this week is evidence of anti-democratic movements across the country. Dr. Erroll Southers, Read more…
Book Picks for January 2021
We are pleased to announce that our January picks are A PROMISED LAND by Barack Obama & PARABLE OF THE SOWER by Octavia Butler.
December 2020 Read
Author Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling takes us to Grafton, NH and a libertarian experiment called the Free Town Project. What happens when government doesn’t exist? When Americans want to live in a freedom without constraint, when regulations are ignored, when laws are ignored … does the community thrive? Perhaps the title gives Read more…
COVID-19 Induced Recession Will Increase Food Insecurity, Resulting in Longer Term Health Effects
COVID-19 Induced Recession Will Increase Food Insecurity, Resulting in Longer Term Health Effects by Rhys Richmond and Katie Bonnett Food – sourcing, eating, cooking – are cornerstones of human existence. Eating is both involuntary and voluntary in that we eat to live but also live to eat. The COVID-19 induced Read more…
November 2020 Read
For the last five months, our most popular episode is our discussion of White Fragility. So … we wanted to bring the conversation further. As, the publisher writes on the blurb for Claudia Rankine’s Just Us, “Claudia Rankine’s Citizen changed the conversation–Just Us urges all of us into it.” Rankine’s Read more…