Interview with Dr. Robert Weide, Author of Divide & Conquer:  Race, Gangs, Identity, and Conflict Excerpts from Interview of Dr. Robert Weide: “I don’t buy the line that it’s impossible for resistance to succeed… it is impossible for it to happen in a system where everyone is divided according to identities …  […]

Interview of Melissa Hipple Collin Davis with his mother, Melissa Hipple   Excerpt from Interview of Melissa Hipple:   “Collin implemented a hospice program in the prison and coordinated it with the dogs going into the hospice program with him.  He wrote a proposal, got it approved, and set up […]

Interview with Collin Davis at Men’s Colony Prison at San Luis Obispo   Men’s Colony at San Luis Obispo Excerpts from Interview with Collin Davis:   Collin Davis, with Amara   “Getting a life sentence meant you were never going to go home. Everybody was getting shut down at court.  […]

On June 18, 2025, Melissa Hipple was informed that her son, Collin Davis, had taken his own life in his prison cell.  It was particularly heartbreaking because Collin had been making so many contributions from prison.  He was training dogs to assist disabled people and had recently founded a hospice […]

INTERVIEW WITH MELISSA HIPPLE Collin Davis with his mother Melissa Hipple On June 18, 2025, Melissa Hipple was informed that her son, Collin Davis, had taken his own life in his prison cell.  It was particularly heartbreaking because Collin had been making so many contributions from prison.  He was training […]

Dr. Harry Edwards and Coach Bill Walsh “If a strategic part of our struggle is NOT to convert critics, adversaries, and the apathetic into collaborators, allies, and advocates, then what are we struggling for – to replace their denunciation and repression of us with our denunciation and repression of them?” […]

Interview with Jeff Jones, Co-Founder of the Weather Underground and Co-Author of Prairie Fire Execution on a Saigon Street, Photo by Eddie Adams (1968) Excerpts from Interview with Jeff Jones: RITKES: Years of protests didn’t change a lot in terms of foreign policy, the war, and racism, so it looks […]

INTERVIEW OF DR. GARY GREENBERG   THE EXTRAORDINARY NATURE OF ORDINARY THINGS                                     Grains of Sand from the Ocean around Maui, magnified 125 times Excerpt from Interview of Dr. Gary Greenberg: “We assume we […]

INTERVIEW OF FERRIS JABRAuthor of Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came To Life Amazon Rain Forest (Shutterstock) Ferris Jabr is the New York Times bestselling author of Becoming Earth and a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. Becoming Earth was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book […]