My name is Roland Sheppard, and I am a retired business representative of Painters Local #4 in San Francisco.
I have been a lifelong social activist and socialist. Prior to my being elected as a union official in 1994, I worked for 31 years as a house painter. My web page stands for the quality of all people.
These essays are written from my ground-floor view as a participant in the Antiwar movement, the Black Liberation Movement, the Women’s Movement, and the struggle for workers’ democracy and freedom for all humanity. For Socialism!
In the 1960s, Roland Sheppard regularly attended Malcolm X’s meetings in Harlem. He is one of the few remaining people who personally witnessed the assassination of Malcolm X in the Audubon Ballroom.
Living Black History How Re-Imagining the African-American Past Can Remake America’s Racial Future, by Manning Marable (New York: Basic Civitas Books, 2006), 266p., $26.: Living Black History How Re-Imagining the African-American Past Can Remake America’s Racial Future, was written by Manning Marable, who is one of America’s most influential and widely read…
Living Downstream An Ecologist Looks At Cancer And The Environment by Sandra Steingraber (New York: Addison-Wesley, 1997, $24) This very well written scientific book by Sandra Steingraber, in my opinion, is the “Silent Spring” of this decade. It is an update of what Rachel Carson warned us about in 1962:…
New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press/Nation Books, (2002) ISBN 1-56025-405-X, Paperback, U.S. $10/Can. $16.50. 160 pages Naturally, The Common People Don’t Want War In his new book, Gore Vidal makes a scathing attack upon the bipartisan domestic and foreign policies of the US government. The introduction to this book sets its…
Book Review: The Judas Factor by Karl Evanzz In this book, Evanzz documents how the intelligence community, the CIA, the FBI, and the New York Police Bureau of Special Services (BOSSI) using agents provocateurs and infiltrators; set the stage for the assassination of Malcolm X. It outlines the motives for their actions. Evanzz…
Book Review: The Media Monopoly By Roland Sheppard Media Monopoly The press is so powerful in its image-making role, it can make a criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. This is the press, an irresponsible press. If you aren’t careful, the…
Workplace Roulette: Gambling With Cancer Workplace Roulette: Gambling With Cancer Written by: Matthew Firth, James Brophy & Margaret Keith ISBN 0-9680644-0-X 78 Pages $14.00 Published by Between The Lines This article is based on the book: Workplace Roulette: Gambling With Cancer Written by: Matthew Firth, James Brophy & Margaret Keith…
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