Joe Gallina of Call to Activism
Joe Gallina and his wife started Call to Activism on Facebook during 2017 in response to some of the bad things happening when Donald Trump began his first term. They were shocked by the amount of fake news he was generating. And there didn’t seem to be any effective fact-checking being done by established media in those days. So Joe started tackling as much of the disinformation as he could.
Call to Activism took off right away and spread from Facebook to Twitter/X and to Bluesky as well as Instagram and YouTube. There is now a Joe Gallina website with the latest information, and another site for Call to Activism so people can get directly involved.
When Joe Gallina and I were talking about these things it became apparent that we saw things the same way. And that writing a book on all of this was too big a job for either of us to do separately. So we joined forces and started pursuing it together. A huge amount of material has come to light since then.
Joe Gallina Defending U.S. Citizens
Attacks on immigrants have led to them being sent to foreign countries without the “due process” guaranteed by law to everyone in the US. But that didn’t really hit home until American citizens began being swept up in these arbitrary attacks. This is out of control.
Other attacks and executive orders have hit veterans, working people, LGBTQ+ and people in all walks of life.
How could this be happening in America to US citizens? In one way or another, these things are hurting you, your family and your neighbors. Something has to be done.
But it won’t happen by itself. I think Joe is right. There needs to be a call to activism.
— Sanford Holst
A walk along the road less traveled
With Reuven Hazak of Israel’s Shin Bet
All the years we worked together Reuven never mentioned the time he stood up for Arabic people who were taken off Bus 300 in Israel and shot. Even when a movie was made of his brave stand, not a word was said. Then one day in Tel Aviv airport I discovered what that really meant.
Strange encounters in Alexandria, Egypt
It was just a walk in Alexandria past the heavily-guarded Naval Academy, along the off-limits parts of the harbor, and then into an out-of-control taxi ride down a rabbit-warren of back streets during Muslim prayer time. What could possibly go wrong?
With Ray Bradbury and future worlds
After our chance meeting in a science fiction bookstore, we would get together from time to time to talk about the strange world we live in, and the amazing ones he imagined. His home in Cheviot Hills was a safe refuge in an oftentimes unpredictable universe.
May 23
2025
Location
Update: the Colorado book-signing is now complete.
