Gentrification and consumerism... have destroyed the character of my favorite American haunts, like North Beach, Berkeley, Venice and Aspen.

Neoconservatives and the Pentagon have good reason to fear the return of the Vietnam Syndrome. The label intentionally suggests a disease, a weakening of the martial will, but the syndrome was actually a healthy American reaction to false White House promises of victory, the propping up of corrupt regimes, crony contracting and cover-ups of civilian casualties during the Vietnam War that are echoed today in the news from Baghdad.

Ive written a book on gangs, taught a course on gangs at Occidental.

The last time I saw Robert Kennedy was in an elevator by accident also, going up, one week before he was shot.

I am the Vietcong. We are everywhere! We are all Vietcong.

When the students in the South, the blacks, started demonstrating, that was the beginning of the time of students becoming a social force around the world.

Communism is one of the options that can improve people's lives.