Category Archives: Project for American Employment & Economic Security

When A Readers Digest Magazine is The Same Age as You!

In couple of days, July 30th to be exact, it will be my fifty-fourth birthday.  [...]

Ventura California’s 4th of July PUSH EM PULL EM Parade

 Ventura’s 4th of July Street Fair continued its proud 41-year-old tradition today with its PUSH  [...]

Brexit and Beyond

Before and after the votes were tallied for the BREXIT a cacophony of voices sounded lamentation  [...]

Ann Coulter Vs. Van Jones at Politicon 2016

On June 25th and 26th, the Pasadena Convention Center played host to the Politicon 2016.  [...]

Feeling the Bern in Ventura, California

On a sunny Thursday afternoon presidential candidate Bernie Sanders gave a spirited speech to over  [...]

Increased Taxation and Centralized Authority are NOT the answer to homelessness

Both the Los Angeles City Council and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors are considering measures  [...]

My Version of St. Patrick’s Breastplate

Not all Irish minds turn immediately to thoughts of green beer, celtic music, and limericks  [...]

What Will Ultimately Ban Fracking?

I drove by a gasoline station the other day in Pasadena, California, and noticed for the  [...]

Happy Labor Day

On this Labor Day I was trying to put together a blog would encapsulate two  [...]

In America, Rape is Considered Non-Judicial Punishment

The other week, a sandwich salesman plead guilty to paying under-aged prostitutes for sex.  The internet  [...]

Defend Diplomacy Support Iran Agreement Rally in Los Angeles California

On August 26th some 60 people gathered in front of Congressman Ted Lieu’s office to  [...]

We Are In A Fourth Turning

Two weeks ago I discussed in a blog that we here at IFSPP will be  [...]

Interview With Culver City Council Member, Meghan Sahli-Wells

I had the pleasure of sitting down earlier this week and speaking with Culver City  [...]

March Against Monsanto Rally – Los Angeles

On Saturday, May 23, 2015 hundreds of Angelenos gathered to stage a rally and march  [...]

Weekly News Wrap for Week Ending 05.16.15

Steve and Kevin are at it again bringing their thoughts, opinions and reactions to last  [...]

Myths of The War on Terror

Michael Shermer of the Skeptic Magazine and Skeptics Society really did the country a service  [...]

CFPUP’S Weekly News Wrap UP For Week Ending 05.02.15

Welcome to another edition of the CFPUP’s Weekly News Wrap Up! Once again we’re providing  [...]

Weekly News Wrap Up for Week Ending 04.24.14

Welcome to another edition of the Center For Progressive Urban Politics Weekly News Wrap Up  [...]

CFPUP’s Weekly News Wrap Up for the Week Ending April 11, 2015

Here is another installment of our Weekly News Wrap Up (WNWU) for the week ending  [...]

IFSPP Weekly News Wrap Up for March 20, 2015

Welcome to what we are hoping will be the first of many, many weekly news  [...]

Steve and Kevin Take on The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors

  On February 24th, Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis, along with Supervisor Sheila Kuehl  [...]

Thomas Paine and His Importance to Progressives

  The Center for Populist Urban Politics had the pleasure recently to sit down with  [...]

The Man With The Blue Guitar

                I The man bent over his guitar,  [...]

Interview with Ellen Brown – What is the Solution to Our Fragile Financial System?

Last week the Center for Populist Urban Politics had the good fortune to sit down  [...]

Dear Pompous Activists of Every Color – It’s Not About YOU!

The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King in 1968, shocked the majority of White America  [...]

Overpopulation and Environmental Injustice

One of the problems with trying to have a conversation on the topic of overpopulation  [...]

Stop Stereotyping Hispanics!

Prior to President Obama’s speech Last Thursday, Luis Gutierrez, a Democratic Congressman, was predicting a  [...]

A Tale of Two Swindles

This week the Center For Progressive Urban Politics is taking a very critical look at  [...]

Brother Can You Spare 8 Grand? And Other Tales From the Not For Profit World

What poses as progressive media these days is usually concerned with entertaining us and managing  [...]