“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex…It takes a
touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”
– E.F. Schumacher
- Co-founder of the Basic Income March
- Organizer of Basic Income NYC, 2015 to 2019
- Social Worker
- Writer
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Well, hello again world.
So I took a hiatus from blogging. Like anything else, I think it is good to step back from blogging and make sure that what you are writing is relevant and purposeful, whether the purpose be to inform, entertain, or [...]
News wrap up, July 12
We spent a good deal of time with the news media yesterday, catching up on what the President, Romney, and our fellow New Yorkers and other public figures are doing. The prevailing stories of the day were whether or not [...]
A Manhattan Boy’s Suicide, One Month Later
This essay appeared in El DiarioLaPrensa on July 3, 2012 Joel Morales hung himself in his family's apartment in an East Harlem housing project one month ago. He was twelve. This event seemed a senseless tragedy to some. Despondent relatives [...]
Speak English, Carajo!
Recently, Rick Santorum, Republican party candidate, declared that Puerto Rico would be required to make English its main language if it were to become a state. Just as Santorum’s culture is cemented in his use of English, the Puerto Rican [...]
GOP Food Stamp Bashers
Have others who know how important the federal Food Stamp program is had enough of Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum's endlessly ignorant verbal attacks on the Food Stamp program? Santorum has made several comments that prove he is atrociously ignorant [...]
GOP race is “heating up”
I've watched the GOP debates, including the latest, South Carolina. The practical and intellectual content is about as hot as a wet pickle. The content is smoke and mirrors: nothing about banking systems, foreclosures, justice, the dismantling of free speech [...]
Another day at a NYS training
Yesterday my trainer made a comment that we the attendees are trying to better ourselves, as opposed to those "sitting home on welfare." It is interesting that so many people who consider themselves very egalitarian, who would never dream of [...]
What I see
I've seen so much in the past year as a caseworker in rural New York to confirm my belief: the government and the banks seek to cement the poor into perpetual poverty. The sacrifice of 20% or so of the [...]
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The Adventures of Carrie Giver
By Theresa Funiciello, Diane Pagen and Eduardo Savid. If there were ever a comic book created for Men and Women alike, it's this revolutionary new comic book. All the adventure and excitement of a superhero [...]