"I did not lose my home, they stole it from me," explains Bertha Herrera, 63-year-old chaplain from Van Nuys, Calif. Bertha was evicted from her home of 32 years at gunpoint by LA County Sheriffs on Jan. 5, 2012. An hour later, with her possessions spread out over...
Posted October 4, 2011 | g:i A
This spring, fundamental change came to a region many people considered the most stuck place in the world -- the Middle East. It began with only one or two people. In a matter of weeks and months, entrenched dictators toppled.
This summer, sizable earthquakes rumbled through parts of this country...
Posted August 8, 2011 | g:i A
If anyone had told me before I moved to Los Angeles over a decade ago that I'd be spending my nights and days here holed up in tiny bars and honky tonks listening to country music I would've been ROFLMAO before the acronym existed. I hated country music. With a...
Posted December 17, 2010 | g:i A
To combat mortgage and foreclosure fraud, we first need to understand the nature of the fraud. There are the small-potato schemes -- the loan modification-aid scams, or the scams of fraudsters busting into foreclosed properties and renting them out. Yes, people get burned this way, but going after these frauds...
Posted June 24, 2010 | g:i A
I wept last night for our unconsciousness and our fear. For my inability to stir the hearts of women and men to action, to change, to any effect at all. I wept for the souls of the dolphins and turtles and pelicans in this toxic sloop, breathing the oil- and...
Posted April 8, 2010 | g:i A
The courts got it wrong. Corporations aren't people. They are unruly dogs.
We've let corporations take over the country the way an insecure dog owner lets their crazy dog take over the household.
You know what this looks like: The needs of the humans get tossed out the window...
Posted March 2, 2010 | g:i A
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Obama has been frustrating me completely. On Inauguration Day, Obama won the Super-Lotto of political wealth. But, like a lotto winner who doesn't move out of his 3-bedroom tract house, Obama has spent virtually none of it. Well, maybe he...
Posted July 24, 2008 | g:i A
The presidential candidacy of Barack Obama is significant, certainly, from a historical perspective: a prominent mixed-race candidate in a polyglot country that prides itself on its melting-pot self image, while talking loudly over its racist bass chords. That it took so long is the real head-shaker. TV's 24 had to...
Posted June 26, 2008 | g:i A
Bugliosi piercingly requires that we not turn away: "Are there no consequences for committing a crime of colossal proportions?"
I went to see Vincent Bugliosi speak before a crowd stuffed to the sweltering brim of a church fellowship hall in Venice, California, last night. I couldn't help but...
Posted June 20, 2008 | g:i A
The plot wherein the hero you've counted on turns out to be an accomplice to the crime.
I'm no politician. I'm a filmmaker. I tell stories. So my natural tendency is to see the "story" in the play of life. The current Democratic leadership's latest idea to give the...
Posted August 23, 2007 | g:i A
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Posted March 5, 2012 | g:i A