‘Commentary’ Archives
The Food Desert is Expanding
from the series Peace House Community Journal... By MARTI MALTBY Marti Maltby Food Deserts are neighborhoods where residents lack adequate access to food. Residents of a country as wealthy as the United States shouldn’t have to worry about getting enough to eat. In other words, we shouldn’t have Food Deserts. Unfortunately, in a country where economic statistics carry more weight than human need, things don’t run as they should. In the last six months, two feeding sites that served take out dinners in Ventura Village closed. Between them, they were serving over 700 meals a night. I don’t know the situation in the other neighborhoods covered by the alley, but I suspect many residents there rely on feeding sites or food shelves to meet one of the most basic human needs. Economics says that the United States is still the wealthiest country in history. The number of people going hungry say that economics is measuring the wrong things. Understandably, a lot of the [...]
Spirit of Phillips April ’26
DAVE MOORE & LINNEA HADAWAY have lived here since the Reagan 80s and became life partners while originating the cartoon series “Spirit of Phillips.”
Dear MAGA
from the series Raise Your Voice... By PETER MOLENAAR Peter Molenaar Dear MAGA, why do the oceans now rise against our shores… and whence, the destruction of hurricanes? Do you not honor the one crucified in retribution for his rebuke of the capitalists who occupied the temple? (Note: Matthew 21:12-13) Dear MAGA, do we not all descend from communal peoples who, after foraging, returned to their villages to receive the honored sharing with those in need? (Note: The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, a book written by Friedrich Engels, can be purchased from May Day Books in the not-faraway land known as the Cedar-Riverside Neighborhood.) Yet, you call us “garbage” and “losers” when, cast in time, our collective labor is the source of value in your commodities! Moreover, feel free to cast light upon the spirit of the original beholders of the land we share, and note: our national parks are not for sale! Oh, dear MAGA, we now cry out: did you [...]
