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Pennsylvania—there are only 9 more days to get out and make your voice heard in this election. Join Vice President Kamala Harris in Philadelphia for a community rally. Have questions about registration or polling locations? Visit IWillVote.com For ASL feed, please tune in here: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85381952026 -------------------------------------- Follow Vice President Kamala Harris! Kamala's Twitter:    / kamalaharris   Kamala's Tiktok:    / kamalaharris   Kamala’s Instagram:    / kamalaharris   Kamala's Twitch:    / kamalaharris   Kamala's Facebook:    / kamalaharris   Kamala's Threads: https://www.threads.net/@kamalaharris #KamalaHarris #Harris2024 Kamala Harris 681K subscribers My plan will allow Medicare to cover in-home health care for seniors. This is a matter of dignity, and it's born out of a personal experience, after I cared ...

by Gregg Chadwick Dear Loved Ones, As you know Tuesday’s election results have released a toxic brew of misogyny, anti LGBT, anti immigrant, anti global warming, and outright racist actions and rhetoric from out of control Trump supporters. There is so much hate out there for trans folks - as well as lesbians and gays and people of color. People have asked me what they can do. First off - love and protect the vulnerable among us. Words are not enough. Action is needed so that our families and communities feel protected from the hate. The California Legislature has stated such in no uncertain terms: "By a margin in the millions, Californians overwhelmingly rejected politics fueled by resentment, bigotry, and misogyny. The largest state of the union and the strongest driver of our nation’s economy has shown it has its surest conscience as well. California is – and must always be – a refuge of justice and opportunity for people of all walks, talks, ages and aspirations...

Please Join Me This Upcoming Weekend as I Open My Studio at the 12th Anniversary of the Santa Monica Art Studios.  In my twelve years at the Santa Monica Art Studios my artwork has been included in more than 70 exhibitions worldwide,  including numerous community oriented benefit auctions. I often open up my studio to visiting students, community members, scholars, and international guests.  These visitors to my studio have included a bus load of Japanese Nursing Students from Tokyo,  a visiting group of academics from the University of Verona in Italy,  professional art restorers from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and the Getty Museum,  an art meditation session with art writer Peter Clothier,  as well as numerous visits by Santa Monica students interested in the arts and culture.  Last year a group of around twenty young adults impacted by AIDS gathered in my studio and other studios for ...

A moving tribute to Trayvon Martin by Minneapolis based recording duo Zone Fwey. Listen Here: More at: Zone Fwey

by Gregg Chadwick Rocky Ground (Song by Song Review of Bruce Springsteen's New Album - Wrecking Ball)  ''The verses are the blues, the chorus is the gospel." - Bruce Springsteen in Conversation With Jon Pareles in  The New York Times  July 14, 2002 Gregg Chadwick The Luminist 12"x12" oil on linen 2010  As if reaching out from the past into the present, Bruce Springsteen's song  Rocky Ground  (Listen Here)  opens with a   ghostly voice calling out the refrain "I'm a soldier." This verbal fragment was culled from a historical performance of the Church of God in Christ Congregation's rendition of   I'm A Soldier In The Army Of The Lord ,  recorded by musical historian Alan Lomax in Clarksdale, Mississippi in 1942*.  The song then shifts to the chorus, sung by the gospel singer Michelle Moore: We've been traveling over rocky ground, rocky ground We've been traveling over rocky ground, rocky ground Only after this sp...