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.
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 [...]
WHY VOTE TO DEFEAT TRUMP: THE SUPREME COURT
The Supreme Court is not only broken. It is also a threat to democracy and to the rights so important to all of us. To reform the court we need to defeat Trump and vote all down the line for Democrats or Working Family Party candidates to make sure that [...]
It’s Just a Vote. Don’t Empower the Trumpoholics, Fascists and Nazis
I have been voting since 1968, that is 14 elections for President. In all this time, especially on issues of foreign policy every candidate I have voted for, with the possible exception of Jimmy Carter, has had serious flaws. This year is no exception. I suspect I am not [...]
