Cooper Zale
- Location
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Birthday
- April 02
- Bio
- I have lived in Los Angeles, CA since 1978, after graduating with a degree in Communications from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. I later graduated from California State University Los Angeles with a second degree in Computer Science. For the past 20 years I have worked as an information systems analyst and a technical writer. He has been married for 25 years to Sally and have two grown children, Emma (19) and Eric (22).
I have been a longtime feminist and member of the National Organization for Women, serving on the Los Angeles NOW Chapter Board from 1982 to 1988, and working as a paid organizer for NOW during those years. I have been a member of the Sepulveda Unitarian-Universalist Society (aka “The Onion”) for the past 17 years, serving as Board President from 1994 to 1996, and currently co-chair of the Religious Education committee and a volunteer youth advisor for the past 6 years. I have also been a member of the Alternative Education Resource Organization (AERO) for the past 4 years as an advocate for educational alternatives and homeschooling in particular.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Thoughts on Liberty & Youth
April 10, 2010 11:08PM - Power (Over) Corrupts
April 04, 2010 06:15PM - Saying Goodbye to a Decade
January 01, 2010 01:29AM - Holding Close with Open Arms
December 26, 2009 03:45PM - Santa Claus, Baby Jesus, and
Honoring Children
December 25, 2009 01:30PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Good to see all the
thoughtful comments... wish I
could reply
to them
individuall…”
December 27, 2009 11:58AM
Cooper Zale's Links
- New list
- My Lefty Parent Blog
Thoughts on Liberty & Youth
As I have said many times before (from my reading of human history), the development of our species for the past five millennia has been all about the transition from patriarchal institutions based on the rule of strength to more partnership ones based on the rule of law. This transition involv… Read full post »
Power (Over) Corrupts
The pedophile priest scandal in the Catholic Church over the past 25 years is just one more example of the societal axiom that “power corrupts”. The phrase is actually a bit too simplistic, not all forms of power necessarily corrupt. I would say more specifically that power ex… Read full post »
Saying Goodbye to a Decade
Since this is the time of year when we indulge in this kind of stuff I’m going to join the fray. We are now ten years into the 21st Century (and the 3rd Millennium of the “Common Era”). As a person who has always been a big sci-fi fan and focused… Read full post »
Holding Close with Open Arms
It was 26 years ago yesterday that my partner Sally and I had our wedding ceremony, officiated by our friend, fellow feminist activist and mentor Toni Carabillo. Toni read the vows Sally and I had written, but added her own poem at the end, “Holding… Read full post »
Santa Claus, Baby Jesus, and Honoring Children
My mom had a great love for everything that had to do with Christmas, and particularly the figure of Santa Claus and what he symbolized in terms of celebrating and honoring children. She believed in God (unlike me) but also felt that organized religion was one of the great scourges of… Read full post »
So a UU Facebook friend alerted me and the rest of our circle yesterday that Garrison Keillor had published an editorial rant, "Don't Mess with Christmas", on Salon.com directed at Unitarian-Universalists and their penchant for revisionist hymns and carols. My friend’s few sente… Read full post »
See my blog... Lefty Parent
Check out my blog at www.leftyparent.com
Cooper Zale's Favorites
- No relations made yet.
Salon.com