Events
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We Are Here, We Are Here
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5 min read
Let’s talk about our part My heart touches your heart Let’s talk about, let’s talk about living Had enough of dying, not what we all about Let’s do more giving Do more forgiving, yeah Our souls were brought together so that we could love each other “We Are Here” (by Alicia Keys, 2014, Listen here)…
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Stop, hey, what’s that sound?
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5 min read
Stop, hey, what’s that sound? Everybody look. What’s goin’ down? (“What It’s Worth” chorus, 1966, lyrics or listen) This song was written in 1966 by Stephen Stills of Crosby, Sills, & Nash fame. They recorded it and performed it thousands of times although it was first performed by Buffalo Springfield that year. The song quickly became an…
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Salutes and More Salutes
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3 min read
Naysayers who think that big marches don’t bring about real change fail to understand there is a pluralistic revolution already underway that will change the world whether they like it or not, divesting the world away from corporate rape of the world’s natural resources. (9/22/14) We have had time now to fully appreciate the impact of Sunday’s unprecedented People’s…
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Salutes!
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4 min read
Quick salute to record 400,000 People’s Climate Marchers who turned out, yesterday. More about that, tomorrow, with an Op-Ed on what’s gone down today in Lower Manhattan many of these activists showed up to Flood Wall Street calling for corporate environmental responsibility. Naysayers who think that big marches don’t bring about real change fail to…
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Climate March This Sunday, Be Counted!
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4 min read
. . . [T]he largest rally for an environmental cause in US history is happening this Sunday, September 21, in Manhattan. More than 100,000 people are planning to join a historic march for climate action two days before President Obama and world leaders attend a Climate Summit at the United Nations. (The Nation’s “The People’s…
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TODAY: Actions You Can Take to Assure Net Neutrality
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2 min read
We may be experiencing the last few days when we can be sure that the Internet will remain free from the control of mega-corporations at the expense of the little guy. Sites such as Comcast and AT&T could be getting fast lanes, the cost of which would be borne by you the consumer. Other websites,…
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Take Action On Wednesday for Net Neutrality
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3 min read
One of the most consequential decisions Washington is set to make in 2014 won’t come out of the White House, Congress, or any of the nation’s boardrooms, but rather from a nondescript federal building along the city’s southwest waterfront. It’s here, in the offices of the Federal Communications Commission, that the fate of the Internet…
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Support Tomorrow’s WalkOuts To Raise Wages
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1 min read
Home healthcare workers are joining fast food workers, tomorrow, for walkouts in over 100 cities across America. You can help by coming out to support these actions against mega corporations such as McDonalds and Walmart who enslave workers with poverty wages and stolen wages. Fast-food workers often have to rely on food stamps to feed…
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Stay Informed. Stay Active.
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3 min read
We speculate that unlike the consciousness raising on gun control following the Newtown Massacre, which petered out along partisan lines since the National Rifle Association owns most of the U.S. Congress, this singular event in Ferguson will succeed in merging the message with the messenger at just the right moment. It has brought about a…
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Love Pierces Hate
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4 min read
After a week of writing about the senseless murder of Michael Brown, a young, unarmed African-Americn in Ferguson, Missouri, by a white policeman, I’ve spent the last few days reading posts we have written over the past few years, and those from other authors, condemning racism. It’s become a meditation on the racism upon…