Archive for December, 2007
Sunday, December 30th, 2007
Wrote this up for Jewcy.com last month; hopefully I'll be blogging for them a bit more next year. While it does veer into a brief fantasy involving softball, its mostly a response to Christopher Hitchens recent screed against the festival of lights.
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
Last Fall I helped run Aimee Allison's brave campaign for City Council in Oakland. Allison, a conscientious objector and peace activist, ran a hard fought outsider campaign that I still believe could have transformed Oakland. We fell just short. Linked is a piece I wrote about the campaign, but the ...
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
In 2006 I wrote this piece (links after the jump) for Mother Jonesabout Governor Schwarzenegger and the failing juvenile justice system in California. At the time I worked with Books Not Bars, a remarkable advocacy organization working to reform the system. Books Not Bars has had a very good year, ...
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
Almost a new year, and thanks to a little help from the brilliant Stirling McLaughlin I'll be posting here more often. BenWyskida.com is the home for all of my writing. Hopefully anything I do, anywhere, will show up here. I'll be posting articles, linking to blog posts from some of ...
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