Category Archives: Social Justice

Recall Chesa Boudin — Yes on H

Posted on June 2, 2022 by Galen Workman

Based on my personal experience of his failure to stop a senseless prosecution of a PTSD victim and my observations of people released by Chesa causing death and damage, I am voting YES on H. Continue reading →

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Taking Care of the Poor, San Francisco Style, 2021

Posted on September 5, 2021 by Galen Workman

There is something humanly disturbing and wrong about how we have decided to NOT handle poor homeless people in need. Here’s what I saw on Castro Street last week. Continue reading →

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How to Save Black Lives

Posted on June 18, 2020 by Galen

Black Lives Matter. Period. The deaths of black men at the hands of police are tragedies that we as a society must work to stop.  Demands for change are appropriate and necessary. But, I worry that anti-police and anti-government protests … Continue reading →

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Meditations on The Thin Blue Line

Posted on June 13, 2020 by Galen

It’s been 40 years since my dispatching days at Long Beach Police. Have things changed? I remember working the day shift and wondering why whenever a certain officer radioed that he was going to investigate a suspicious subject on his … Continue reading →

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Talking to LGBT Refugees About the Orlando Shootings

Posted on June 12, 2016 by Galen

There is no place where you are absolutely safe.  No place in the world. The men and women whom my church’s Refugee Guardian Group has helped all fled their home countries to avoid being beaten or killed because of their sexual … Continue reading →

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