Here is another installment of our Weekly News Wrap Up (WNWU) for the week ending 04/11/15. We are bringing you the international, national, state and local stories that stood out in our minds. And this week there were some doozies!! Below are some of the topics we will be discussing: – California’s drought – The Iran nuclear treaty – ...

Welcome to our Weekly News Wrap Up for the week ending March 27, 2015. Once again Steve Lamb and Kevin Lynn review several stories that may be international, national, state or local that caught their interest and comment on them along with their implications. This week we took a look the US Army’s decision to court martial Sergeant ...

Welcome to what we are hoping will be the first of many, many weekly news wrap ups (WNWU) for the Center For Progressive Urban Politics.   Today we discussed a range of international, national, state and local issues that included, the Mexican farm workers strike, Ukraine, e-mailgate, Israeli prime minister elections as well as local Los ...

  On February 24th, Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis, along with Supervisor Sheila Kuehl sponsored a motion to create a task force to help with the implementation of President Obama’s executive order (EO) granting amnesty to illegal immigrants on the county level. Supervisor Solis pulled out all the stops to get her motion approved to ...

  The Center for Populist Urban Politics had the pleasure recently to sit down with actor, Ian Ruskin who is preparing to begin film production of his one-man play entitled “To Begin the World Over Again: the Life of Thomas Paine”. In his pursuit to create the most authentic depiction of Thomas Paine possible, Ian has ...

                I The man bent over his guitar, A shearsman of sorts.  The day was green.   They said, “You have a blue guitar, You do not play things as they are.”   The man replied, “Things as they are Are changed upon the blue guitar.”   And they said then.  “But play, you must, A tune beyond us, yet ourselves,   A tune upon the blue guitar Of things ...

https://youtu.be/k6-kues3qGQ Last week the Center for Populist Urban Politics had the good fortune to sit down with Ellen Brown, Author, activist, and luminary on the nation’s banking system and discuss with her the reforms needed to bring our financial system back into the service of not just the 1% but all of the country’s citizens.  There ...

The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King in 1968, shocked the majority of White America into peering into the mirror. They did not like what they saw and decades of introspection and self- examination began. Most White Americans worked really hard to throw off the cultural norms of American racism and embrace the concept of ...

One of the problems with trying to have a conversation on the topic of overpopulation is bringing it home to a local level. Sure, we are on our way to 9 billion people on this earth, but what does that mean to me here in Southern California. In this week’s  interview with Dr. Ben Zuckerman we ...

Prior to President Obama’s speech Last Thursday, Luis Gutierrez, a Democratic Congressman, was predicting a “civil war” within his party unless the President issued an executive amnesty for illegal aliens. This all begs the question, are Hispanics really ...

This week the Center For Progressive Urban Politics is taking a very critical look at one of the largest public works projects ever proposed for the state of California and compares it to another public works project from a hundred years ago.  A project that  was proposed for the “public good” but was in fact a ...

What poses as progressive media these days is usually concerned with entertaining us and managing content to the point (as described by social critic Curtis White) wherein “it is a threat to no one, no where.”  This week’s blog is a no holds barred indictment of the business of “charity.” It is done in spoken ...

Over the past two days we have brought you our thoughts and how we intend to vote on propositions 1 & 2 and then on propositions 45, 46, 47, and 48. In this video we provide our thoughts on the gubernatorial campaign and end with the Los Angeles County Supervisor race. In between we  provide ...

  This is part two of a three part series covering ballot propositions and candidates for federal, state, county and municipal office. The entire sit down took roughly an hour which was about thirty minutes longer than we had hoped. So we decided to cut into three sections. This is part two and deals with our ...

Whether it is up ballot, down ballot or something in between, there is nothing like an upcoming election to heighten our awareness of the political landscape and get us thinking about who and what to vote for.  Given politics is what we do here, we thought it would be a good idea to provide our ...

“When I take executive action, I want to make sure it’s sustainable.” That’s how President Obama explained his decision to delay granting amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants until after the midterm elections. The move is clearly designed to avoid a popular backlash against Democratic candidates in the upcoming midterm elections. It’s easy to see why the ...

We recently sat down with Josef Bray Ali, Owner of the Flying Pigeon Bike shop and bike lane activist to learn more about the controversy over a proposed bike lane on Figueroa Street in Northeast Los Angeles (NELA).  We learned in the interview how a plan for an extensive bike lane that had been green lighted ...

This week’s interview falls under the IFSPP categories of personal wellness and resilience. We were very fortunate to spend a morning earlier this summer with Christina Avaness, an author, teacher, shaman, reikii master and self styled “food alchemist.” Christina shared with us nutritional insights from her latest book Living Beyond Organic.” In this 45 minute interview ...

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In its continuing search to find citizens who are doing things to improve themselves, their families, communities, cities, states and country, the folks at IFSPP conducted a lengthy interview with Jules Dervaes, the patriarch of the Urban Homestead in Pasadena, California. Surrounded by urban sprawl and just a short distance from a freeway, the Urban Homestead ...