Welcome to Bob J Brand
Given the mess in which we find ourselves with challenges to democracy, equality, and inclusion all over the United States and internationally, I have started this website to increase my public engagement on a range of issues having to do with creating a just society. At the same time the website will link to a twice-weekly blog (that I will start in late January 2024) and will present sets of my photographic work which will be available to help with fundraising by giving prints to people who support progressive organizations.
Trump Dependence on Russia
TRUMP AND HIS RUSSIAN DEPENDENCE: WHERE ECONOMIC CORRUTION MEETS CORRUPTING DEMOCRACY Donald Trump is doing his best to align the United States of America with the kleptocracy dictatorship of Russia. In the last week alone he has condemned Ukrainian civilians and soldiers to die needlessly, mouthed all the [...]
Celebrating Selma 60 Years Later and Lessons for Today
In 1965 I was part of a campus group based at the University of Pennsylvania that was actually an amalgam of a campus NAACP chapter, a Committee to End the War in Vietnam, SDS, and a nascent draft resistance group. When the demonstrations in Selma attracted national attention and [...]
Planning and a Public Process to Build a Welcoming and Vital Center City and a Prosperous Philadelphia
SUMMARY: The proposal to build a sports arena on Market Street East needs a full public evaluation to determine whether it will serve Philadelphia. I have prepared this paper to urge that public process because I believe there is substantial evidence that building the arena on Market Street fails [...]
