Tag: activism
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June 19, 2009 12:48 PM EDT --
Not going away, just, for me, going and going and going.
The group I'm on the board for, Lakewood is Art, has a jam-packed schedule for the summer. We just had our first ArtWalk of the summer . . .
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June 05, 2008 02:46 PM EDT --
I am not gay, nor are my children. I do have gay friends, though, and I know how important it is to them to be able to have equal marital rights. For instance, I have friends who have been together for . . .
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July 11, 2008 09:58 AM EDT --
Is it so bad to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood,
and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and
Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To . . .
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July 22, 2008 08:45 PM EDT --
I got this from Care2 today, and I'm sharing it as it's written because I can't bring myself to believe it, much less rewrite it. Here's the message:
The Bush administration is proposing . . .
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February 26, 2008 04:30 PM EST --
Go here to sign a petition in favor of an act that will help families who have been victimized by unscrupulous lenders keep their homes:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/747606327?z00m=13900892 . . .
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April 16, 2008 02:03 PM EDT --
Just Gimme Some Truth
Some time ago, my husband and I saw the documentary, The U.S. vs. John Lennon. John Lennon has been, for most of my life, one of my major role models, and I loved him as . . .
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June 26, 2008 03:20 PM EDT --
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have donated $1 million dollars to help children who are affected by the Iraq war, both Iraqi children and the children of service men and women.
When they donated millions . . .
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August 13, 2008 06:06 PM EDT --
I got this letter in my email from MoveOn, and because it is a call to action with a petition to be signed, I am sharing it here in its entirety.
Please sign if this is something you believe matters. . . .
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July 01, 2009 07:37 PM EDT --
Lately I've been thinking,
About how things don't change.
Except for names and different places,
It all remains the same.
All these deaths and children crying,
While rich men fill . . .
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June 22, 2006 06:34 PM EDT --
I'm going to make a suggestion that most of the readers of this post should take to heart, if you are interested in blogging. Unless you are a big-time blogger, get a job with a big-time blogger . . .
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July 16, 2008 04:02 PM EDT --
In their latest insane-o-gram, the AFA (American Family [sic] Association) calls upon liberal-haters to set aside their thinking skills and pound the internet pavement with inane, sensationalized . . .
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June 17, 2007 02:57 PM EDT --
I thought it would be interesting to ask everyone today, "Who are your heroes, and why?"
I have lots of heroes, for lots of reasons. I guess I'll start off with Mary Harris "Mother" . . .
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April 19, 2008 05:51 PM EDT --
http://donnabarr.blogspot.com/2008/04/cameras-make-me-dangerous.html
Moving toward saving the dog.
Donna
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April 23, 2008 01:07 AM EDT --
Mary Wood, Professor of Law, Eugene Oregon talks about the "tipping point" our environment may be reaching, and whether governments should have the responsibility of curbing the carbon footprint. . . .
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August 31, 2006 10:47 PM EDT --
A great speech by Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson, August 30, 2006: (You-Tube of portions here.)
Washington Square Salt Lake City, Utah
A patriot is a person who loves . . .
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July 09, 2008 03:52 PM EDT --
On Tuesday, 7 U.N. -AU peacekeepers were killed and 22 wounded when they were attacked by about 200 assailants on horseback and in SUVS with anti-aircraft and anti-tank weapons. The peacekeeping force . . .
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June 20, 2007 07:59 PM EDT --
In 1993, Canada's long-term Center-right Progressive-Conservative party went from 169 seats in Parliament to 2. The party never recovered, and eventually merged as a junior partner in a group . . .
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March 29, 2008 10:53 AM EDT --
From the Free Tibet Website:
Web Site: http://www.freetibet.net/
Note: Please go to this website and sign this important petition! With the Olympics focusing attention on China, this is . . .
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February 09, 2007 11:34 AM EST --
Six children and four adults—ten members of one family--died from smoke inhalation in a house fire in Bardstown, Kentucky on Tuesday night. Before the overwhelmed, desolate, . . .
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August 12, 2008 12:41 AM EDT --
Sunday night I saw something I didn't think I'd see in my lifetime. I watched Arlo Guthrie perform Alice's Restaurant , the whole freaking thing, on stage accompanied by his son, Abe on keyboard, . . .
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