Minuteman-style border patrol is over in no time

Every time racist immigrant vigilante groups called an action in California these past few months, they were confronted by much larger groups of militant counter-protestors. And every time, they turned tail and ran, whining all the way about those horrid…

Something new to worry about

You’ve probably never heard of it, but … It’s endemic to the Southwest… It’s spreading with global warming… It’s annual economic costs are in the millions… and it’s a biological agent covered under the recently enacted Anti-Terrorist and Effective Death…

FEMA, slow to the rescue, now stumbles in aid effort

Nearly three weeks after Hurricane Katrina cut its devastating path, FEMA – the same federal agency that botched the rescue mission – is faltering in its effort to aid hundreds of thousands of storm victims, local officials, evacuees and top…

FEMA City Florida

Eighteen months after Hurricane Charley, with no homes for the displaced to move into, FEMA plans to evict them from the camps they set up for them.. “Personally, I think there will be riots here if they try to evict…

Two legends. DTK/MC5 and Sun Ra

The Sun Ra Arkestra was the original interplanetary space jazz band. They started in the 50’s, have influenced countless musicians, and can’t be imitated, don’t even try! Wondrous cacaphonies of horns envelop you, sometimes squawking, sometimes melodic, always changing. DTK…

Why Palestine matters

Many people don’t know what happened. They don’t know that hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forcibly driven off their land in 1948 in violation of international law. The right of expelled and excluded Palestinians to return to their land…

Building for the Sept. 24 antiwar protest in L.A.

Sue has been phone-banking for ANSWER LA, calling people on the phone list about Sept. 24, and raising money too. You know it’s going to be a “wrong number” when it starts with “555” and ends with “5555”. But I…