April 7, 2025 Jonah Raskin They did not come to the Civic Center in San Francisco on April 5, 2025 to speak truth to power. They know that power doesn’t listen to people, not the powerful but vulnerable demigods in the White House. They came to acknowledge one another, to build a community in the open air and to air their grievances. It was a defining feature of the crowd that numbered in the thousands that no two signs were identical just as no people were identical and no two people dressed identically. They were individuals, separate and autonomous and yet linked by their total rejection of Trump and Musk whose names were deliberately misspelled in the spirit of disdain and disgust.
April 7, 2025 Chris Bambery The war drums are beating in Washington once again. This time, the drummer is the man who came to the office describing himself as the ‘President of Peace’, Donald Trump. The target: Iran.