INTERVIEW WITH JASON ALFONSO:  LEAVING THE GANG BEHIND     EXCERPTS FROM INTERVIEW WITH JASON ALFONSO:   “A lot of people join a gang out of fear and a need to fit in and be wanted.  I would tell people to stand on their own two feet.  Don’t depend on […]

INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD L. HASEN, Author of A Real Right to Vote, Election Meltdown, Cheap Speech, and The Voting Wars President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the 1965 Voting Rights Act EXCERPTS FROM THE INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD L. HASEN:      “Louisiana v. Callais will bleach the halls of Congress, state legislatures, […]

INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD L. HASEN Author of A Real Right to Vote, Election Meltdown, Cheap Speech, and The Voting Wars     President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the 1965 Voting Rights Act, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., looking on               “Louisiana v. Callais will bleach the halls of Congress, […]

INTERVIEW WITH FATHER GREGORY BOYLE At Homeboy Industries, Los Angeles, California, May 20, 2026           “There are two hundred references in Scripture that ask us to take special care of the poor. It is this preferential care and love for the poor that …rises above the polarizing temperature of our […]

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?” […]