Stop Islamophobia: a battle for public opinion
The following is a letter I wrote and posted to Larry Mantle’s Air Talk facebook page, in response to his…
Stopping Islamic fundamentalist violence, in two easy steps
Wanna take the wind out of the sails of Islamic fundamentalists? Easy: 1. Stop invading and dropping “shock and awe”…
Edward Snowden meets Arundhati Roy and John Cusack
I wanted to share a favorite quote from this amazing piece of journalism by Arundhati Roy. Please read and share…
Desperately needed: “Hearts as Big as Cities”
As a Spanish interpreter, I’m constantly in a position to have others speak through me. It’s an honor and a…
time = change
change is good. (and it’s inevitable, as an aside) might as well embrace it, and enjoy the ride.
Weekend at Big Bear Lake
A Tale of Two “Rough Rides”
Rough ride #1: On June 7th, 1998 James Bryd, Jr. was the victim of an unthinkably brutal, hate-motivated murder. A…
A Dream Deferred, 2015
Deferred… no longer I. Invaded, Assaulted, Corralled, Shackled, Kidnapped. Dehumanized, Crammed, Shipped, Enslaved, Exploited. “Freed”, Indentured, Tricked, Caricatured, Betrayed. Lynched,…
Genocide is the word…
The details of the history surrounding the Turkish genocide of the Armenian people are not well known to me. I…
