Jon Jeter dropped by Zócalo to discuss his new book, Flat Broke in the Free Market: How Globalization Fleeced Working People
Archive for May, 2009
Jon Jeter on Globalization
Posted By Zócalo On May 29, 2009Elise Buik
Posted By Zócalo On May 28, 2009
Elise Buik was born and raised in the South, but after 17 years in Los Angeles, she says, “I can’t imagine living anywhere else.” After moving to the city in 1992 and discovering that “I didn’t really care if I sold another computer system,” she left her job at a software company and joined United Way of Greater Los Angeles, where she now serves as president and chief executive officer.
Black Stone on a White Stone
Posted By Zócalo On May 28, 2009by César Vallejo
I will die in Paris with hard dirty rain,
on a day I now remember.
I will die in Paris — and I don’t run —
maybe a Thursday, like today, in autumn.
Thursday, because today, Thursday, when I prose
these lines, I have forced my humeri on
unwillingly and, never like today have I again,
with all my road, seen myself alone.
Can L.A. Solve Homelessness?
Posted By Zócalo On May 28, 2009
Despite the spotlight cast by local politicians and big-name movie stars, homelessness in Los Angeles seems to remain an entrenched if evolving problem for the city. Seventy-three thousand people live on the streets of Los Angeles County on any given night — 40% are women or children, a full quarter are families, and one-third are chronically homeless…..
An Inside Passage
Posted By Zócalo On May 27, 2009
An Inside Passage (River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize)
by Kurt Caswell
Kurt Caswell’s An Inside Passage manages to express at once a longing for home and a craving for movement, an earnest spiritual search with a self-aware skepticism. Caswell offers brief anecdotes of various trips to far-flung lands — Japan, India, the Philippines, Alaska, Death Valley….
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