#  VOICES

   ##  [ Our Rights Taken, For Granted](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24518-our-rights-taken-for-granted "Our Rights Taken, For Granted")

      Details    Denyse Selesnick    [VOICES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices)     May 05 2022       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/May-2022/036l.jpg)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24518-our-rights-taken-for-granted)

MY THOUGHTS - In the sixties, I was 21 years old, married and had a full-time job as an Associate Editor on a small trade magazine.

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   ##  [ Primaries Test The Violent Dishonesty Of The Right](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24516-primaries-test-the-violent-dishonesty-of-the-right "Primaries Test The Violent Dishonesty Of The Right")

      Details    Wim Laven    [VOICES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices)     May 05 2022       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/May-2022/036o.jpg)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24516-primaries-test-the-violent-dishonesty-of-the-right)

GUEST COMMENTARY - On April 21st I went to the Top Notch Diner in Cortland OH. Senate candidate Josh Mandel appeared with retired General Michael Flynn, former National Security Advisor in the Trump administration.

     [  Read more …  ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24516-primaries-test-the-violent-dishonesty-of-the-right)

   ##  [ Men’s Voices Urgently Needed to Defend Women's Rights](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24514-men-s-voices-urgently-needed-to-defend-reproductive-rights "Men’s Voices Urgently Needed to Defend Women's Rights")

      Details    Rob Okun    [VOICES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices)     May 05 2022       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/May-2022/036m.jpg)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24514-men-s-voices-urgently-needed-to-defend-reproductive-rights)

WOMEN’S RIGHTS - Exacerbated by the news that this summer the Supreme Court is poised to overturn a half a century of precedent by declaring Roe unconstitutional, men must leave the sidelines in this national reproductive rights emergency.

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   ##  [ Welcome to America 2.0](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24512-welcome-to-america-2-0 "Welcome to America 2.0")

      Details    Joel Kotkin    [VOICES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices)     May 05 2022       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/May-2022/036r.jpg)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24512-welcome-to-america-2-0)

GUEST COMMENTARY - The future shape of post-Covid America is beginning to emerge. As demographic trends and surveys indicate, the pandemic has helped accelerate large, epochal changes in the nation’s geography.

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   ##  [ Of Barbarians, Breeders, and the Men of the New Old Order](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24507-of-barbarians-breeders-and-the-men-of-the-new-old-order "Of Barbarians, Breeders, and the Men of the New Old Order")

      Details    Richard Eskow    [VOICES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices)     May 05 2022       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/May-2022/036w.jpg)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24507-of-barbarians-breeders-and-the-men-of-the-new-old-order)

WOMEN’S RIGHTS - I cannot imagine what it is like to be a woman in the United States of America today.

     [  Read more …  ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24507-of-barbarians-breeders-and-the-men-of-the-new-old-order)

   ##  [ Ask The Cheshire Cat, “Which Way Do You Want To Go?”](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24506-the-cheshire-cat-which-way-do-you-want-to-go "Ask The Cheshire Cat, “Which Way Do You Want To Go?”")

      Details    Liz Amsden    [VOICES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices)     May 05 2022       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/May-2022/036x.jpg)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24506-the-cheshire-cat-which-way-do-you-want-to-go)

ACCORDING TO LIZ - Reports about what has been the most horrific assault yet on human rights by the US Supreme Court in modern times started trickling out on Monday. Our fears and imaginations ran rampant.

     [  Read more …  ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24506-the-cheshire-cat-which-way-do-you-want-to-go)

   ##  [ Hillary, Nancy, and RBG: Three Most Responsible for Roe vs. Wade’s Death](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24500-hillary-nancy-and-rbg-three-most-responsible-for-roe-vs-wade-s-death "Hillary, Nancy, and RBG: Three Most Responsible for Roe vs. Wade’s Death")

      Details    Richard Lee Abrams    [VOICES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices)     May 05 2022       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/May-2022/036c.jpg)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24500-hillary-nancy-and-rbg-three-most-responsible-for-roe-vs-wade-s-death)

THE VIEW FROM HERE - Preliminary Note about Roe vs Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973)

     [  Read more …  ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24500-hillary-nancy-and-rbg-three-most-responsible-for-roe-vs-wade-s-death)

   ##  [ They’re Going to Overturn Roe v. Wade–What are You Going to Do About It?](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24499-they-re-going-to-overturn-roe-v-wade-what-are-you-going-to-do-about-it "They’re Going to Overturn Roe v. Wade–What are You Going to Do About It?")

      Details    Beth Cone    [VOICES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices)     May 05 2022       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/May-2022/036f.jpg)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24499-they-re-going-to-overturn-roe-v-wade-what-are-you-going-to-do-about-it)

SCOTUS - The [Politico release](https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473) of the unprecedented leak of the initial draft majority opinion that indicates the Supreme Court has voted to strike down *Roe v. Wade* has unleashed a tidal wave of responses from politicians.

     [  Read more …  ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24499-they-re-going-to-overturn-roe-v-wade-what-are-you-going-to-do-about-it)

   ##  [ Radical Left-Wing Science Fiction](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24480-radical-left-wing-science-fiction "Radical Left-Wing Science Fiction")

      Details    Eve Ottenberg    [VOICES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices)     May 02 2022       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/May-2022/035k.jpg)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24480-radical-left-wing-science-fiction)

GUEST COMMENTARY - Despite its boys’ club origins, science fiction long exhibited a leftist streak.

     [  Read more …  ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24480-radical-left-wing-science-fiction)

   ##  [ How America’s Truckers Got Hijacked](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24479-how-america-s-truckers-got-hijacked "How America’s Truckers Got Hijacked")

      Details    Jim Hightower    [VOICES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices)     May 02 2022       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/May-2022/035l.jpg)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24479-how-america-s-truckers-got-hijacked)

GUEST COMMENTARY - Keep On Truckin’” was an iconic underground cartoon created in 1968 by comic master Robert Crumb.

     [  Read more …  ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24479-how-america-s-truckers-got-hijacked)

   ##  [ What’s Next for the Reenergized US Labor Movement?](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24472-what-s-next-for-the-reenergized-us-labor-movement "What’s Next for the Reenergized US Labor Movement?")

      Details    Aaron White    [VOICES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices)     May 02 2022       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/May-2022/035q.jpg)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24472-what-s-next-for-the-reenergized-us-labor-movement)

UNION WATCH - "Starbucks has this image of being a progressive company that takes care of its employees.

     [  Read more …  ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24472-what-s-next-for-the-reenergized-us-labor-movement)

   ##  [ How Nancy Pelosi and Wokers Will Turn Congress Deep Red](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24465-how-nancy-pelosi-and-wokers-will-turn-congress-deep-red "How Nancy Pelosi and Wokers Will Turn Congress Deep Red")

      Details    Richard Lee Abrams    [VOICES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices)     May 02 2022       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/May-2022/035c.jpg)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24465-how-nancy-pelosi-and-wokers-will-turn-congress-deep-red)

THE VIEW FROM HERE - Everyone is fond of quoting Einstein, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”

     [  Read more …  ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24465-how-nancy-pelosi-and-wokers-will-turn-congress-deep-red)

   ##  [ Gun Violence is Killing Our Children](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24464-killing-our-children "Gun Violence is Killing Our Children")

      Details    Liz Amsden    [VOICES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices)     May 02 2022       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/May-2022/035a.jpg)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24464-killing-our-children)

ACCORDING TO LIZ - Four hundred people died from gun violence in the United States in the first four days of 2022.

     [  Read more …  ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24464-killing-our-children)

   ##  [ Are Dems Opening the Door to the Next Villanueva?](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24458-are-dems-opening-the-door-to-the-next-villanueva "Are Dems Opening the Door to the Next Villanueva?")

      Details    Mitchell M. Tsai    [VOICES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices)     May 02 2022       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/May-2022/035g.jpg)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24458-are-dems-opening-the-door-to-the-next-villanueva)

GUEST COMMENTARY - For most Democrats throughout deep blue L.A. County, the incumbent Sheriff is a disaster whose misconduct each day escalates the urgency to replace him.

     [  Read more …  ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24458-are-dems-opening-the-door-to-the-next-villanueva)

   ##  [ Angelenos Dislike Democracy ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24451-angelenos-dislike-democracy "Angelenos Dislike Democracy  ")

      Details    Richard Lee Abrams    [VOICES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices)     April 28 2022       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Apr-2022/034w.jpg)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24451-angelenos-dislike-democracy)

THE VIEW FROM HERE - Los Angeles has no legacy of democracy. The city government does not even attempt to have the traditional separation of powers since the city makes the laws and then enforces its laws or ignores its own laws.

     [  Read more …  ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24451-angelenos-dislike-democracy)

   ##  [ Stop LAPD Spying Sues City Councilmember Paul Koretz for Hiding Communications ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24450-stop-lapd-spying-sues-city-councilmember-paul-koretz-for-hiding-communications "Stop LAPD Spying Sues City Councilmember Paul Koretz for Hiding Communications ")

      Details    Hamid Khan    [VOICES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices)     April 28 2022       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Apr-2022/034v.jpg)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24450-stop-lapd-spying-sues-city-councilmember-paul-koretz-for-hiding-communications)

GUEST COMMENTARY - The Stop LAPD Spying Coalition filed a public records lawsuit today confronting City Councilmember Paul Koretz's failure to respond to a public records request regarding his office’s communications with the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a nonprofit political association that works with government surveillance agencies.

     [  Read more …  ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24450-stop-lapd-spying-sues-city-councilmember-paul-koretz-for-hiding-communications)

   ##  [ Humanity: Evolving in Spite of Itself](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24445-humanity-evolving-in-spite-of-itself "Humanity: Evolving in Spite of Itself")

      Details    Robert C. Koehler    [VOICES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices)     April 28 2022       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Apr-2022/034i.jpg)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24445-humanity-evolving-in-spite-of-itself)

GUEST COMMENTARY - As wars rage, as cruelty shatters lives across the planet — as nuclear Armageddon remains a viable option for all of us — I think it’s time to claim some stunning awareness in this regard.

     [  Read more …  ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24445-humanity-evolving-in-spite-of-itself)

   ##  [ Serfing the Future?](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24444-serfing-the-future "Serfing the Future?")

      Details    Joel Kotkin and Wendell Cox    [VOICES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices)     April 28 2022       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Apr-2022/034k.jpg)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24444-serfing-the-future)

GUEST COMMENTARY - Land ownership has shaped civilizations from their beginnings, with a constant interplay between great powers—the aristocracy, the state, the Church, the emperor—and those below them.

     [  Read more …  ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24444-serfing-the-future)

   ##  [ Amazon Union Sets Example, Could Walmart Union be Next?](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24441-amazon-union-sets-example-could-walmart-union-be-next "Amazon Union Sets Example, Could Walmart Union be Next?")

      Details    Coco McPherson    [VOICES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices)     April 28 2022       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Apr-2022/034n2.jpg)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24441-amazon-union-sets-example-could-walmart-union-be-next)

UNION WATCH - The improbable April 1 victory of Amazon workers in Staten Island, who fought for over two years to establish the very first union at the retail behemoth,

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   ##  [ Reduce Gun Violence By Starting At The Local Level](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24439-reduce-gun-violence-by-starting-at-the-local-level "Reduce Gun Violence By Starting At The Local Level")

      Details    Brian Malte & Judy Belk    [VOICES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices)     April 28 2022       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Apr-2022/034m.jpg)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24439-reduce-gun-violence-by-starting-at-the-local-level)

GUN CONTROL - The tragic Sacramento shooting on April 3 that claimed six lives joins a long list of shootings in California that occurred that same weekend:

     [  Read more …  ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24439-reduce-gun-violence-by-starting-at-the-local-level)

   ##  [ The New Gilded Age](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24438-the-new-gilded-age "The New Gilded Age")

      Details    Liz Amsden    [VOICES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices)     April 28 2022       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Apr-2022/034p.jpg)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24438-the-new-gilded-age)

ACCORDING TO LIZ - Of all social media applications currently in use in the United States, Facebook and Twitter have by far the most penetration and, perversely, the greatest influence.

     [  Read more …  ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24438-the-new-gilded-age)

1. [ CBS Hires Former Trump Defender](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24436-cbs-hiring-of-mick-mulvaney-might-be-good-for-profits-but-it-s-bad-for-democracy)
2. [ Ruling on Travel Mask Mandate the Product of Years of Cynical GOP Court Packing](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24420-ruling-on-travel-mask-mandate-the-product-of-years-of-cynical-gop-court-packing)
3. [ Black Couple Forced To Prove Ownership Of Their Clothing Store](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24406-black-couple-forced-to-prove-ownership-of-their-clothing-store)
4. [ Unions Are On The Rise. Can They Rise To The Occasion?](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24404-unions-are-on-the-rise-can-they-rise-to-the-occasion)
5. [ George Orwell’s 1984 in 2024](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24403-george-orwell-s-1984-in-2024)
6. [ Former LAPD Chief Parks' Responds To LA Times / Rick Caruso’s Claim ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24402-former-lapd-chief-parks-responds-to-la-times-rick-caruso-s-claim)
7. [ Where Will LA Hide the Homeless?](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24393-where-will-la-hide-the-homeless)
8. [ After Fireworks Explosion: Residents Still Struggling in South LA](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24389-after-fireworks-explosion-residents-still-struggling-in-south-la)
9. [ Gratitude is Not a Four Letter Word](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24386-gratitude-is-not-a-four-letter-word)
10. [ LA Rent Is Still Too Damn High! We Need Rent Control](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/24385-rent-is-still-too-damn-high-we-need-rent-control)

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