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The right to exist is a human right

By Jack Bragen on July 11, 2024
First-person   Opinion
"The conspiracy to dump people on the streets who can’t make it in the conventional workplaces is a slap in the face to our right to exist."

America’s effort to destroy poor, disabled people

By Jack Bragen on June 1, 2021
Commentary   Opinion
We are now seeing the fallout of President Trump’s 2021 Budget, which targets the most vulnerable people and pays the people at the very top with a nifty tax break.

Danny McMullan: Advocate, agitator, longtime contributor

By Julia Irwin on January 1, 2020
Features   Street Spirits
in 1984, Danny McMullan was zipping down the highway on his motorcycle —eager to join his friends by the bay—when he hit a power box. The force of the impact tore his right leg clean off and left Danny, then 21, with broken bones in his pelvis, ribs, arms, clavicle, and back.

New California bill may threaten independent workers

By Jack Bragen on March 1, 2019
Commentary   Opinion
The California Legislature is currently considering Assembly Bill 5, could make it much more difficult to work as an independent



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