Category Archives: Oakland

What Transgender Means

Posted on July 28, 2017 by M. Meo

  Surely in writing this post, which is a highly personal meditation, I have to begin from the admission of my own lack of principled stance over time.  My opinions have changed and developed in the course of years. Today … Continue reading →

Posted in Bradley Manning, Cameron Whitten, Education, Elections, Friendship, Inequality, Oakland, Pacific Green Party, Spiritual life, Vali Balint | 17 Comments

Mass Incarceration Here and Now

Posted on March 15, 2017 by M. Meo

  My friend Shane Greene, whom I’ve known since we were locked up in Multnomah County Jail last year for months together, came to visit me the other day; he’s been out of state prison for three months now, and … Continue reading →

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We Were Never Data-driven

Posted on October 31, 2016 by M. Meo

  I’m retired, after more than twenty years full-time teaching in high school, in Portland Public Schools.  During that time, and with greater and greater urgency toward the end of my tenure, we were continually beseeched, as teachers, to do … Continue reading →

Posted in Cameron Whitten, Diffeomorphisms on a manifold, Don Gavitte, Education, Healthcare, Inequality, Local government, Mathematics, Oakland, Ronald Reagan, Spiritual life | Leave a comment

The Notorious Bloody Nose

Posted on June 4, 2016 by M. Meo

Okay, where was I? That last phrase, to those who have either enjoyed or endured my many years (more than 20) of teaching mathematics at Portland Public Schools, would denote when I had got to the end of a digression. … Continue reading →

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Chapter Meeting Minutes Cinco de Mayo

Posted on May 6, 2016 by M. Meo

The meeting was called to order at 6:30 Attending were Herschel Soles, Dave Westerlund, and two California residents Del and Yeon, not to mention Your Intrepid Reporter Herschel spoke for 45 minutes explaining the context and events surrounding the Citizens … Continue reading →

Posted in Bradley Manning, Dan Handelman, Diffeomorphisms on a manifold, Elections, Fascism, Friendship, Global, John Schweibert, Local government, Oakland, Oregon state government, Pacific Green Party, Police, Scott Fernandez, Seth Woolley, Spiritual life, Uncategorized, US Senate, War | 2 Comments

A Dispatch from the Front (Oregon State Prison)

Posted on December 5, 2015 by M. Meo

When I was last — for some 100 days; they said they needed the time to determine if I understood the charges against me — in Multnomah County Jail, I met Shane Greene, cocaine addict. Well, meth too; lots of … Continue reading →

Posted in Cameron Whitten, Dan Handelman, Education, Fascism, Free Speech, Friendship, Healthcare, Inequality, John Schweibert, Local government, Oakland, Pacific Green Party, Police, Ronald Reagan, Spiritual life, U.S. Constitution, Woody Broadnax | 2 Comments

The Justice System

Posted on April 22, 2015 by M. Meo

is really the Just Us system

Posted in Dan Handelman, Economics, Fascism, Gar Alperovitz, Inequality, Israel, Local government, Oakland, Oregon state government, Pacific Green Party, Police, Ronald Reagan, Saudi Arabia, Spiritual life, U.S. Constitution, Uncategorized, US Senate, Woody Broadnax | Leave a comment

conclusion of Political Institutionalization of Science in the United States

Posted on February 24, 2015 by M. Meo

[this is the second of two posts, conveying the 1983 article in the leading Soviet scholarly journal concerned with issues of scientific research and policy — of course there are other journals, but they tend to be swamps of Party … Continue reading →

Posted in Astronomy, Economics, Education, Empire, Global, Inequality, Marxism, Mathematics, Oakland, Paul Forman, Permaculture, Reservoirs, Scott Fernandez, Seidel, Seth Woolley, U.S. Constitution, War | Leave a comment

Jonah: Still Reeling from the Leviathan, but Loved the Waitresses

Posted on January 6, 2015 by M. Meo

Your Intrepid Reporter has seen the inside of some jails, as Gentle Reader will recall, most recently in the Occupy Mount Tabor fiasco. But I’ve also been arrested for hitch-hiking in Pennsylvania, disturbing I believe it was the peace in … Continue reading →

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A Long Time Ago dans une autre monde

Posted on December 21, 2014 by M. Meo

30 June 1989 To Gary Nix and Mike Girard Dear Mike and Gary, It’s a little after six in the afternoon on a summer day as I sit down to write this letter at a desk before a large second-stored … Continue reading →

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