Santa Cruz’s John Malkin explores the spiritual underpinnings of punk rock in new book ‘Punk Spirit!’
Santa Cruz journalist, filmmaker and musician John Malkin brings together two unlikely subjects, punk rock and spirituality, in his new oral history, “Punk Spirit!” The book explores the many religious/spiritual traditions that punk musicians have embraced, as well as the spiritual dimensions of art, music and activism. Read more from Wallace Baine.
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OPINION: Community Bridges offers a lifeline, but workers are not being treated fairly or with dignity
Community Bridges, Santa Cruz County’s largest nonprofit, doesn’t value or treat its front-line workers with dignity, write Community Bridges employees Lidia Montesino and Mercy Gonzales. The company favors managers and executives, while the people delivering aid and care struggle in a workplace that doesn’t offer them enough training or support. A nonprofit built on equity shouldn’t mirror the inequities it claims to fight, they write. In a Community Voices op-ed, they challenge Community Bridges to value its workers as much as the workers value clients and lay out three ways to start rebuilding trust. Read it here.
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