Fare Thee Well Interview Series: Gene Baur
With The Grateful Dead’s 50th Anniversary shows approaching, and HeadCount organizing a “Participation Row” non-profit village at the shows, we are running a series of interviews with key people from non-profits and various social good initiatives tied to the Grateful Dead. Today, we talk to animal rights activist Gene Baur. Click here to view other interviews in…
Fare Thee Well Interview Series: Wavy Gravy
With The Grateful Dead’s 50th Anniversary shows approaching, and HeadCount organizing a “Participation Row” non-profit village at the shows, we are running a series of interviews with key people from non-profits and various social good initiatives tied to the Grateful Dead. Today, we talk to Wavy Gravy (born Hugh Nanton Romney); a poet, comedian, and social activist. …
Hillary Supports Universal Voter Registration
Congratulations, you’re eighteen! You can get a tattoo, buy a lottery ticket, be selected for jury duty, and call yourself a legal adult. According to the 26th Amendment, you also possess the right to vote. But there’s a caveat that makes this last right much less accessible than the rest: voter registration. Advocates for…
Participation Row Dead50 Ticket Auction
You spent days decorating a ticket request envelope with a Stealie and Skulls and Roses. You waited in a virtual line on TicketMaster for hours as the site kept crashing and reloading. You have been tracking the slightest daily changes in StubHub prices for tickets listed by scalpers. And despite all of that effort you…
Announcing Participation Row at Fare Thee Well
On December 10th, 1965 a band previously known as The Warlocks took the stage at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco. That show was a benefit to raise legal funds for the Mime Troupe and that band was performing under their new moniker The Grateful Dead. For fifty years since, the band never stopped…
ACLU Mobile Justice App aims to Save Lives and Secure Justice
A new ACLU Mobile Justice App allows users to document misconduct by law enforcement on smartphones and alert the community about incidents in progress.
A Deep Analysis of Waka Flocka’s Presidential Platform
Move over Pigasus, I have a new favorite for the 2016 Presidential Election: Waka Flocka Flame. Before I start analyzing Waka Flocka’s political stances I want to address the claim that as a 28 year-old, Waka Flocka is too young to run for president. He’s not. His Vice President can serve until he qualifies for…
SCOTUS takes on racially defined redistricting
This spring the United States Supreme Court has stepped in to address racial gerrymanders in Alabama and North Carolina. Each state has been asked to reconsider existing judicial decisions on districts drawn following the 2010 census. Additional states are expected to follow.
Is Participatory Budgeting Good for Democracy?
My Elementary School, P.S. 24 (Class of 2002 represent), wants two new laptop carts consisting of 72 brand new laptop computers. When I went there we had a computer lab consisting of two or three dozen pre-iMac Apples. In that lab Mavis Beacon taught me how to type, Zoombinis taught me how to do math, and…
Was That A Cardboard Cup in Hillary’s Campaign Video?
If you googled ‘Climate Change’ on Monday afternoon, like I did, the first article that popped up had a headline reading: “This Is The Most Important Tweet About Hillary’s Announcement And Everyone Pretty Much Ignored It” That tweet by John Podesta, the chairman of Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, is important because it articulates the campaign’s dedication…