Vicki Ryder

Vicki Ryder is a retired teacher who served as a conflict management specialist for the NY Governor’s Office on Employee Relations and co-chaired the Training Committee of the International Academy of Family Mediators.

For the People

By Vicki Ryder

Vicki Ryder: Have you heard the awful news? Our Democracy’s bein’ abused. Our Reps have passed Bill HR 1 But all their work is bein’ undone. This bill to keep our voting fair Isn’t going anywhere…

You’re Fired!

By Vicki Ryder

Vicki Ryder: I open my morning newspaper To see what the President’s done, And the horrors just keep piling higher And I feel like I’m coming undone.

Dark Waters Tells Half the Story of PFAS Contamination

Pat Elder: The truth is that our drinking water is loaded with carcinogens and other dangerous chemicals while the legal limits for contaminants in tap water have not been updated in almost 20 years.

‘Citizen K’: Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the Birthing of the New Russia

ocumentary filmmaker Alex Gibney’s latest entry takes on the transition from the USSR to shock capitalism, the bargain basement selloff of the Soviet people’s hard-earned material infrastructure to insider cronies who in short time became billionaires, and the way those nouveaux riches became firmly entrenched in an authoritarian oligarchy led by Vladimir Putin. One of […]