The Jumping-Off Place

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The Jumping Off-Place: Politics, Labor, Culture, San Diego will “comfort the afflicted, afflict the comfortable” and will feature voices intent on challenging the local and national hegemony during a time when market forces are destroying news outlets.

About Doug Porter

Writer, Progressive Political Activist. San Diego elections are a thing for me, but I cover a lot of things. I lost my vocal chords to cancer, keyboard is my voice. #BLM

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