Sitting on the murky floor at the Belvedere Park front office in East L.A., tethered to the one outlet I can find through which to charge my overworked iPhone, I wonder to myself "What the hell am I doing here??"

The girls are late. Again. I lean up against...

In Michael Moore's new film Capitalism: A Love Story, Ronald Reagan slaps a woman so hard across the face that there were audible gasps in the audience. Granted, this was an old film clip and Reagan was "acting" but Moore was making the point that along with cozying up to...

I first met Rocio Martinez at a St. Patrick's Day Party. She sat across from me, an attractive Latina woman with an underlying edge, and after staring past each other uncomfortably for a while we struck up a conversation. My first thought, when she told me that she was a...

A lot of people feel extremely frustrated about the rampant voter suppression going on as evidenced by the many comments on my last post about my experience in Nevada and the voter registration fraud going on there.

Here's an idea of something we can do right away that...

When I first heard the story about how Latinos coming out of the DMV in Nevada were being tricked into thinking they had registered to vote when they hadn't, I wasn't sure that it was possible -- I mean that's pretty blatant voter fraud. But after hearing the same story...

On a cold distant November in 1916, a true Republican maverick and reformer became the first woman elected to the United States Congress. Her name was Jeannette Rankin and as an indefatigable champion of peace, justice and equality for all, her ghost...