Tag: social justice
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November 26, 2009 02:22 PM EST --
On this Thanksgiving, I'm reminded of your most important work. I'm reminded of Ruby Bridges.
"The Problem We All Live With" - The Truth About Rockwell's Painting
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November 23, 2009 06:53 PM EST --
There are a lot of people in the United States who want a public option in the health care reform bill. Four senators* are playing hardball with the Senate version of the health care reform bill. Senator . . .
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November 16, 2009 06:57 PM EST --
It seems like churches have been in the news a great deal lately.
Last week newspapers were busily filling the public in on where the Fort Hood shooter went to mosque, and who else might have gone . . .
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November 13, 2008 06:31 PM EST --
While I don't believe this is going to stop all the killing and brutality in Darfur, the fact that Bashir has been forced to declare a ceasefire is definitely encouraging, and means that he is feeling . . .
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December 04, 2008 09:34 AM EST --
At Gather some of us have put rainbows on our icons to show our support of marriage equality. But it's hard to walk around in real life wearing a rainbow.
Go to http://whiteknot.org/ . . .
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February 22, 2008 08:52 PM EST --
If all future debates were in the rough, it would remove a lot of the theatrical masks that the candidates wear and strip everything down to the real nitty gritty.
I would be so relieved if they would . . .
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February 27, 2008 02:53 PM EST --
Bobbie Cutts murdered Jessie Davis, the mother of his 2 year old who was 8 months pregnant with his child. This happened in Canton, Ohio (about 40 miles from me). He was a police officer so . . .
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October 28, 2008 10:53 AM EDT --
This quote makes is seems as if he did. He could be describing my son and many other Aspie's.
My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my . . .
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January 31, 2009 03:40 AM EST --
We are what we write
Whether joy or crankiness
Slings and arrows, bows and bits
Life, off the top of me head
One could never say it sounds so brutal
Just standing in line, next afternoon
There's . . .
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July 21, 2009 01:53 PM EDT --
In the light of the interest that my article about the death penalty stirred, I thought I would share this story I just read in the Associated Press.
It seems that in 2005, three men who had spent . . .
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March 22, 2009 03:36 AM EDT --
Delicious is the moment, joining in, just in protest
Testing waters in the lake
Expansive like humanity, Starched collar screams out vanity
And what mantra will you make
Take a census in both Salem's, . . .
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December 29, 2005 03:49 PM EST --
It was warm, so I sat outside, to eat my lunch in the sun
I met a man who'd lost his way, and didn't know any one
He swallowed his pride, avoided my eyes,
and in a tiny voice, shared with . . .
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December 04, 2006 10:36 AM EST --
I made a new friend the other day.
I had walked to the drugstore. I always walk, if I can avoid driving. I don't like to give my money to the oil companies and I can use the exercise. . . .
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January 25, 2008 07:32 PM EST --
Sometimes we get carried away with ourselves and mistakenly think that the US is the most important place in the world.
We're not, take a look at this YouTube video and learn a lot.
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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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November 13, 2008 11:23 AM EST --
I received an email from a friend about his business outlook in this economy, and I thought I'd share it with you:
Dear Fellow Business Executives:
As the CFO of this company . . .
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December 04, 2008 12:47 PM EST --
Way back when, Minneapolis got about three free gay newspapers (paid for by advertising). Being free, I picked them up and read them. I even had a cartoon I drew that was in . . .
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December 29, 2008 06:53 PM EST --
Imagine waking up tomorrow and learning that the United Nations has decreed that everyone living west of the Mississippi River had to move to the east of it. No one except American Indians could . . .
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April 27, 2009 06:48 PM EDT --
Imagine the Prime Minister of Canada, telling U.S. citizens that they ought to overthrow their national government. It isn't very likely that many people would act on such advice. Canada is, after . . .
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July 19, 2009 01:52 PM EDT --
The death penalty. How do you feel about it?
Did you know that since 1973, 130 people have been released from death rows around the country due to new evidence which proved they were innocent? Some . . .
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