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The Guilds Need to Change Too.](https://ded2209.inmotionhosting.com/~citywa9/los-angeles/33619-california-film-tax-credits-arent-enough-the-guilds-need-to-change-too) October 26 2026 # VOICES --- [ ![](https://ded2209.inmotionhosting.com/~citywa9/media/yootheme/cache/ff/040v-ffd2bb55.jpg) ### Why Should We the People Respect a Court That Subverts the Will of the People? Written by JIM HIGHTOWER on May 19 2022. ](https://ded2209.inmotionhosting.com/~citywa9/voices/24616-why-should-we-the-people-respect-a-court-that-subverts-the-will-of-the-people) [ ![](https://ded2209.inmotionhosting.com/~citywa9/media/yootheme/cache/16/040d-161f7b41.jpg) ](https://ded2209.inmotionhosting.com/~citywa9/voices/24611-do-not-yank-their-chains)Written by Richard Lee Abrams on May 19 2022. Posted in [VOICES](https://ded2209.inmotionhosting.com/~citywa9/voices). ## [Do Not Yank Their Chains](https://ded2209.inmotionhosting.com/~citywa9/voices/24611-do-not-yank-their-chains) In the short while that he was at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on June 17, 2015, he was treated so well by the Bible study group th… --- [ ![](https://ded2209.inmotionhosting.com/~citywa9/media/yootheme/cache/49/040i1-492e9ba5.jpg) ](https://ded2209.inmotionhosting.com/~citywa9/voices/24605-one-more-thing)### [Equality: A Message to my Daughters](https://ded2209.inmotionhosting.com/~citywa9/voices/24605-one-more-thing) Written by Denyse Selesnick on June 21 2023. 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