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Yvonne lives in Berkeley, California with her partner and their four-legged family. During the day, she works at a racial justice think tank, crunching numbers to eradicate white supremacy. At night and sometimes weekends, she sits at her computer, trying to make sense of the world.
These are the fruits of her attempts. Apologies in advance if they are sometimes sour, not always sweet, unripe or not fully ready to launch. Yvonne is working on her craft of writing and playing with using all five senses.
Yvonne tweets, shares what she reads, makes friends, takes pictures, and watches video. Occasionally, she chats and talks on the phone. She loves hearing from you at yvonnegrapher at gmail dot com.
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Billionaires for Wealthcare
Billionaires for Wealthcare toasted the rightwing demonstrators that gathered in DC this past weekend to protest healthcare reform, legislation to stave off climate change, and all attempts to provide a safety net for working families and folks of color.
They describe themselves as “a grassroots network of health insurance CEOs, industry lobbyists, talk-show hosts, and others [...]
Posted in capital, race, realpolitik, the state Also tagged immigrants, neocon, safety net, white supremacy Leave a comment
Tent City
“Excuse me, where’s the tent city?”
The man with matted dreadlocks and a weathered face from the sun squinted at me. He wore a white tee shirt grey with wear and slung a tattered jean jacket over his shoulder, hot from the afternoon sun. “Why would you want to go there?”
Why indeed. Like [...]
Posted in capital, race, urban studies Also tagged accumulation by dispossession, capital crisis, obama, race, space and place, spatial fix, subprime Leave a comment
Sitting on the Dock of the Bay
From my perch here on the thirteenth floor in downtown San Francisco, I can catch a sliver of the Bay. There’s often a boat, usually cargo, floating in the water with a backdrop of a mountain range and sometimes at sunset a fantastic explosion of color streaking the sky: pinks, blues, violets, and then black.
One [...]
Sesquipedalian Obscurantism
The NY Times today pays way too much respect for a man that does the world a whole lot of good dead than alive.
William F. Buckley Jr., who marshaled polysyllabic exuberance and a refined, perspicacious mind to elevate
conservatism to the center of American political discourse, died at 82.
Breathes the first sentence of Buckley’s obituary. [...]
A Tale of Race and Recovery