A dictatorship of billionaires—the Bezos, Musks, Soon-Shiongs of the world—ostensibly rule the lives of workers whose wages stagnate, if they’re not fired first.
Mexican Americans
You’re a Marxist rap-metal band and you’re doing a cover of Springsteen’s “Ghost of Tom Joad”? WTF is even happening?
The siege of Los Angeles will have come by force, but the administration gambled its moral authority. And lost. With all Los Angeles as witness.
Memories of mom, Monte Carlos, unions, Sunkist and struggle in 1970s Oxnard.
Since my early youth I always compared the homes and neighborhoods of people in my blue-collar social network with those more privileged.
When the Spanish conquered central Mexico in 1521, the gold-loco conquistadores burned the codices of the Aztecs and destroyed their […]
It is Saturday night, and El Monte’s atmosphere is buzzing with a youthful glow. As the parking lot and the surrounding streets began to fill with vehicles from the American golden age of automotive design with names like Galaxie and Mercury, the space became saturated with cosmic energy.
At the close of Teatro Campesino’s 1972 film Los Vendidos/The Sellouts, originally a play written by Luis Valdez, a menagerie […]