January 2012
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0.2 On This Foundation
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For more on A Course in Immortality… Click here for 0.1 Worship Erotic Joy También en español The cornerstone of a new faith has been laid—a new vision of human individual and social destiny comprising the emergence of a unity expressing harmonious divergence among its members. The foundation of this faith is the worship of Love…
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Chocolate’s Child Slaves
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News of Note: Chocolate’s Child Slaves Everyone loves chocolate. But for thousands of people, chocolate is the reason for their enslavement. The chocolate bar you snack on likely starts at a plant in a West African cocoa plantation, and often the people who harvest it are children. Many are slaves to a system that produces…
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Jurors: Researching online? Go to jail!
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(También en Español) News of Note: Jurors: leave the information age—or go to jail An English court has sentenced a juror to six months in prison for contempt of court after she performed research on the Internet and forced the abandonment of a criminal trial. Psychology lecturer Theodora Dallas, 34, was a member of the…
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(También en Español) News of Note: Anonymous takes down government, recording industry websites in retaliation for bust Anonymous says it is in the process of staging its “largest attack ever” — more than 5,000 loosely associated hackers taking down websites belonging to government and recording industry organizations in response to Thursday’s shutdown of the file-sharing…
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Tomorrow in DC we will be delivering testimony, reprinted below, in opposition to Bill 19-567, a proposed new law that would allow police to designate permanent Prostitution-Free Zones (PFZs), which have been dubbed by local activists as Trans Profiling Zones. If you cannot attend tomorrow, you can watch online. In any case, in the coming…
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Samira Ibrahim: Local and worldwide hero
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Egypt’s ban of virginity tests for female detainees came with smiles and a sense of victory and justice recently, thanks to a heroic woman, Samira Ibrahim. She was detained in March of 2011 and was forced to undergo an invasive virginity test, and decided to file a lawsuit to have these tests banned in Egypt.…
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SOPA: US backers end support for anti-piracy bill
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(También en Español) News of Note: “SOPA: US backers end support for anti-piracy bill“ Websites all over the Internet went black Wednesday in opposition of the SOPA and PIPA bills. This protest is the first of its kind and a powerful example of the power these websites wield. The US news website Politico estimated that…
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0.1 Worship Erotic Joy
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For more on A Course in Immortality… Click here for 0.0 A Course in Immortality También en español The underlying fundamental absolute of the universe in which we live is the power we recognize in the desire to do good to others, which we properly name Love. Love is expressed in and bestowed upon every level…
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U.S. Government Threatens Free Speech
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(También en Español) News of Note: U.S. Government Threatens Free Speech With Calls for Twitter Censorship EFF [Electronic Frontier Foundation] has witnessed a growing number of calls in recent weeks for Twitter to ban certain accounts of alleged terrorists. In a December 14th article in the New York Times, anonymous U.S. officials claimed they “may have…
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Realizing The Dream
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Originally published November 30, 2011 Upon visiting the new Martin Luther King, Jr., National Memorial in Washington, DC, I thought about how well Dr. King’s philosophy has been realized in our society almost 50 years after the delivery of his “I have a dream” speech. Dr. King believed in non-violent advocacy for justice and equality.…