Author Archives: Keith Kamisugi

By Michael Tyler, EJS Poet-in-Residence Shift the gears in your fears from park to overdrive…put your pedal to the metal come and take this ride…through harkened histories of darkened miseries…pater plans in mater lands were never mysteries…stop defending and pretending about the Eden days…the beginning of the sinning of deceiving ways…all the planning in theContinueContinue reading “‘How the Story Goes’ by Michael Tyler”

Dolores Huerta enriched American life as one of the most dynamic and defining feminists and labor leaders of the past century. Her monumental achievements, from negotiating the first successful collective bargaining agreement for agricultural laborers in the continental United States in 1966 and directing the East Coast grape boycott, to helping secure Robert F. Kennedy’sContinueContinue reading “Honoring Dolores Huerta: A Legacy of Justice, Labor Rights, and Resilience”

California continues to make progress on reparations, becoming the first state in the nation to require corporations to declare under oath whether they or their predecessors profited from slavery. On September 30, 2026, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 2599, The Truth in Disclosure Act authored by Assemblymember Isaac Bryan and a top priority forContinueContinue reading “California Becomes First State to Require Corporations to Disclose Slavery Profits, AB 2599 Signed by Gov. Newsom”