Chuck Collins to appear at Common Good Cafe in Thursday, with Real Change Reads

Please join Real Change Reads this Thursday, September 20th at 7pm at the Common Good Cafe, to meet Chuck Collins, author of 99 to 1, How Wealth Inequality is Wrecking the World and What We Can Do About It.  This exciting opportunity is for you to meet the author and discuss the book, along with the reading group participants from around the…

Anti-Walmart videos

Here is a music video by Duane Thorin, a phenomenal musician who wrote an incredible song about the efforts of Altadenans to fend off a Walmart that is moving to their town.  This  just goes to show why poets lead revolutions. . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS54QvBOcNY&list=FLlMxXslVnU9pM44AQuxhc7g&index=2&feature=plpp_video For those of you who haven’t seen it, below is the…

Obama about to appoint Erskine Bowles (darling of Paul Ryan) Treasury Secretary?

Why is the [Obama] Administration talking about replacing Treasury Secretary Geither with a wealthy banker who wants to cut Social Security and Medicare, would lower taxes on his fellow rich people, and is trying to impose European-style job-destroying austerity on this country? Klein wrote that “as of today, I’m ready to name a frontrunner, at…

African American Methodist bishop under attack for supporting same-sex marriage

We Stand with Bishop Talbert’s Courageous Witness In September 1960, a young pastor named Melvin Talbert was arrested and jailed alongside Martin Luther King, Jr. for sitting in at a segregated lunch counter. He went on to become a bishop in the United Methodist Church and serve as president of the National Council of Churches….