Johanna Faust, a mixed race Jew, prefers to publish pseudonymously. She is committed: first, to preventing war, ecological disaster, and nuclear apocalypse; last to not only fighting for personal privacy & the freedom of information, but, by representing herself as a soldier in that fight, to exhorting others to do the same. She is a poet, always. All these efforts find representation here: "ah, Mephistophelis" is so named after the last line of Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus, whose heretical success flouted the censor for a time.

Main Street Oakland Is Becoming A Ghosttown



Documenting the decline in commercial properties being actively occupied as of the end of 2010. Representative of Main Street -- which means this is not as bad as it gets nowadays -- side streets are even emptier.
Good thing Oakland people are resourceful, and the community spirit here is strong. People helping each other is the only way to survive: if only more human beings understood as much....







youtube link: http://tinyurl.com/ghosttown-oakland




Be seeing you.
















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