OB Rag

This is a shout out to Ragsters Ernie and Judi, and my library loving pal Sandy, and that bright constellation of caring, tough, committed, brilliant teachers who have shaped the human being I am today. Respect!

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On April 15th there will be a “National Day of Silence” during which hundreds of thousands of students nationwide will…

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* NEW UPDATE: Special Meeting on Proposed Medical Marijuana Ordinance – March 16th
*Arrest of Second Suspect in OB Business Window Vandalism Imminent
*OB Planning Board Election – March 15th
*OB Rag Letter-Writing Campaign Over Lack of U-T Coverage of Large San Diego Labor Rally Gets “Apology”
*U-T Cartoonist Snags OB in Weekly Caption Contest
*OB Historical Society’s Annual Wisteria Tea Party – March 19th
*Ex-Robb Field City Worker Accused of Stealing From City
*END THE WARS! Rally – March 19th
*40th Anniversary of the Collier Park Riot Coming Up

In that town called San Diego when the workers try to talk, The cops will smash them with a sap…

For the Builders, the Planters, and the Refusers, on the 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day

On this, the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, I want to take a minute to honor grassroots women’s activists across the planet – women, like those working tirelessly in Haiti, who have inspired their communities, united their communities, and led their communities, holding them together and pushing them forward.

Recently I sat and wrote and chatted with some of the coolest people alive. No jive. Most of them happen…

By Kit-Bacon Gressitt / Excuse Me, I’m Writing “They gotta learn some phone manners,” he said, angrily scrawling the address…

Serra Mesa, San Diego: To kill the Beast or not, was the question. Has it grown into an enormous creature…

I pause with a picture to just look at my face, the wrinkles, the gray in my beard, the few…

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By Shirley Sprinkles, Ph.D

She handed me a five dollar bill through the car window, then turned and walked away. I don’t know her name, nor where she was going—the encounter was so brief—but I know I will never forget that lady stranger who generously saved me from a lot of frustration and prevented me from walking a mile or more to my destination. The scene was a downtown public parking lot. My husband, Leo, and I were already a half hour late for a statewide conference on the status of African American families and children. (CSAAFC). We had taken the wrong fork in the expressway, and found ourselves deadlocked in traffic that was backed up for four miles due to a serious accident. I told Leo to go the other way, but he didn’t. .

By Dr. Tawny Lanos I just finished a book by Branko Milanovic, an economist for World Bank, about the imbalance…

When Tanja Winter – the matriarch of  San Diego’s progressive community – was 12 years old, she watched as German Nazis…