Does anyone win when children are bombed? - My latest piece on Public Square Amplified
My working title for my latest piece was Gaza, Alabama. But in hindsight Birmingham, Palestine would have been a better fit. I enjoyed writing something that...
Public Comment to the Board of Education 3/17/2025
Our district is facing an $11M shortfall. Some Board Members are suggesting we should not raise taxes to soften the blow.
Public comment from 02/11/2025 asking the West Orange Town Council to debate and vote on a Resolution Against Islamophobia and Anti-Arab Racism
Photo by Alex Shute on Unsplash I'm here tonight to ask that as elected representatives of the residents of West Orange you work together to consider the...
From “Man” to “Resistance," Oppressors Always Fear Words
Stories, and the words that compose them, change the world.
Scale funding is poison when you're actually growing
Non-profits often can't influence enough of their problem space to create scale, so we must fund them for growth not scale, which means the funding can't just end.
My latest piece on Ceasefire in Public Square Amplified
I wrote about how the US failure to achieve ceasefire is both unsurprising, and a distraction from the real problem.
Biden ain't it
The best time to step aside would have been right before or after Trump's speech. The second best time is NOW.
There are no both sides to our political violence
The Republican vision for our country is violence across the entirety of our society, in all its forms, and all its manifestations.
8 years
And for most of those 8 years, it feels good to think about him, even though it still hurts.
Ceasefire Resolution Public Comment West Orange Town Council 2/13/24
But right now in Gaza, kids aren’t the future, because they’re dead.
Palestinian Lives Matter
But what do we do when our elected officials and a minority of our neighbors refuse to acknowledge that?
My written testimony to the Assembly Community Development and Affairs Committee on Strong Civilian Complaint Review Boards
A1515 is finally getting a committee hearing, almost 2 years after it was introduced and assigned to committee
My Op-Ed on my journey on police violence and how it applies to occupation, apartheid, and genocide in Palestine
Our world has been consumed by atrocity, slaughter, and decimation many times before, but what’s changed in the last few years is the ability for everyone to watch it happen in real time.
My Op-Ed on the County Line as a voter suppression tool
Every single Democratic voter who cast a vote in the primary election would have been disenfranchised if the Essex County Democrats leadership had gotten their way...
#Justice4Bernard - Englewood Council Public Comment 06/13/2023
My public comment on obtaining justice for Bernard Placide, Jr. at the Englewood Council Meeting
Open Letter to Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin
When your State Attorney General quotes Letter from Birmingham Jail you'd probably expect good results. New Jersey's AG seems to be on a different path.
Testimony on Community Crisis Response - A5326
Paterson Healing Collective staff member Najee Seabrooks (center) who was murdered by Paterson Police during a mental health crisis. Photo from Paterson...
Policing, Whiteness, and My Journey of Understanding
A racist system will always produce racist outcomes. We need to break down that racist system.
New Jersey is governed by white moderates
Those people who are quoting Dr. King's Letters are the same people he was talking about, and they either don't see that, or they don't want to see that.
Public Comment - Englewood Council Meeting - 03/30/2023
Six months after an Englewood Police Officer murdered Bernard Placide, Jr by shooting him while he was incapacitated by a taser, the Council isn't taking residents concerns with policing seriously
