I’m on a national conference call right now with Michael Moore, who dialed in from his film offices in New York City. (He’s making a film about the 47 million Americans who don’t have health insurance.) It’s part of the Rock the House (and Senate) Caller Party I’m hosting, along with hundreds of other people […]
Current affairs
‘Inconvenient Truth’ opens wider; new studies back its science
“An Inconvenient Truth” opens in San Francisco, Berkeley, Mill Valley, Nevada City, San Jose, Palo Alto and hundreds of U.S. theaters this Friday. MoveOn.org is asking members to pledge to see the movie and get tickets in advance. They’re also sponsoring a conference call with Al Gore this Sunday, June 4, at 7 pm EST […]
‘An Inconvenient Truth’ and Al Gore’s talk
An Inconvenient Truth opens in wide release this week. It could be the most important you’ll ever see. As I blogged earlier this month, I saw Al Gore’s slide presentation in San Francisco and blogged about it here, but I didn’t have a chance to trranscribe my brief notes because I was about to leave […]
Meeting Al Gore
Got back a little while ago from an event sponsored by HSBC Bank at the Four Seasons in San Francisco, where about 100 of us got to see Al Gore’s remarkable presentation about global warming. (That’s a file photo above.) I got to shake hands with the former vice president and introduce myself, but the […]
At the immigration rights rally
Spent a couple of hours this afternoon at the rally for immigrants’ rights in San Francisco, across the street from City Hall. Thousands of people turned out to bask in the sun, dance, hobnob and, oh yeah, listen to political speeches. Caught some nice images in this Flickr photo set, including actor Danny Glover before […]