Tina: Why are you running for president? EM: I am running for President because there is a real emergency in this country. Everything from the climate to world peace is at risk of falling into a very deep, problematic, destructive, and dystopian future for all people. My campaign’s focus is to bring awareness to these…

I am not writing about anything new. My  concern involves an age-old (no pun intended) problem  plaguing women who don’t work outside the home. It is a looming concern regarding my husband’s and my financial security as we reach old age.At least at the moment, we are together and neither of us is 100% disabled. …

Have you noticed lately how much we are being pressured into“self-care”? Ever wonder why? It’s because we are living in a society that doesn’t serve human needs. Capitalist society is overworking and underpaying us, stripping us of benefits and time off we need and deserve, overloading us with things to do, and overwhelming us with…

By 2012 I had been to my fair share of demonstrations; taken part in Occupy Los Angeles, learned a lot about Socialism, and was introduced to the Socialist Party USA (member since 2015). More recently, I’ve joined fellow Comrades in the ever growing Democratic Socialists of America. During this same period, I had begun my…

I grew up in a well-manicured, middle class suburb in upstate New York. The real estate developer of this “Stone Gate Manor” neighborhood profited from the need for family housing after World War 2. Nevertheless, he left a parcel of the development property, a historically wooded land known as the “James Estate,” untouched. It was…