The mural here reminds us of what Tom Joad famously tells his mother at the end of in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, in response to her asking Tom where he’s going:

Wherever people are fighting for their rights, where kids are hungry and crying, and where folks are struggling to be free. Everywhere in the dark, wherever there is a fight so hungry people can eat or a cop beating up a guy.

The People Good Folks Support

What the late Frank Zappa said here about atheism is what I began predicting when I was in my teens, but I’m not so optimistic today.

In fact, there seems to be a trend towards the rejection of science, fear, brutality, and tribalism–each one a pillar of religion and the fanaticism that so often surrounds it.

Maybe Religion Is Here to Stay

As shown at left, “communism” and “socialism” have been used to scare American idiots for almost a century.

The Scare of Communism