Tag: social justice
group name: codepink
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May 12, 2008 08:03 PM EDT --
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside . . .
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October 06, 2008 06:47 PM EDT --
Because both presidential candidates are U.S. Senators, their positions on many issues are public record. Last week, I examined some of John McCain's votes on certain key issues. This week, we look . . .
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October 20, 2008 06:33 PM EDT --
In just two weeks, the United States will elect a new President. Depending on whom we elect, the country will make a dramatic change. The candidates have given some broad hints about the roads they want . . .
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June 13, 2007 11:23 AM EDT --
No one who knows me could think I support the war in Iraq. That would make me a peacemaker, right? Hardly.
They say charity begins at home.
So does peace.
When the bible talks about beating swords . . .
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August 11, 2008 06:49 PM EDT --
For the second time in two months, the Iraqi government has publicly asked the United States to create a timeline for us to withdraw our forces, and for the second time, American negotiators have balked . . .
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October 26, 2007 03:49 PM EDT --
For the first 40 years of so of my life, I considered myself a Christian. I was a member of numerous congregations of two major denominations during my travels through life, ending up in the Episcopal . . .
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August 10, 2007 11:37 AM EDT --
Back in 1938, the German people were sick and tired of being sick and tired. They had had their traditional monarchical government forcibly removed and replaced with what appeared to them to be an impractical, . . .
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January 20, 2008 12:35 PM EST --
I grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the cradle of our democracy. I don't know if it was where I was that gave me the picture of the United States of America that I have. All I know is that I . . .
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June 16, 2008 05:59 PM EDT --
Imagine walking down the street, minding your own business when a soldier walks up to you, slaps you in irons and carts you off to prison. Several days later, guards put you on a plane that crosses the . . .
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April 02, 2008 08:15 PM EDT --
The newspaper photos seemed to say it all: the couple in fatigues beams blissfully because the U.S. Army has decided that married couples can co-habit in the Iraqi war zone. The article goes on to inform . . .
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August 07, 2007 07:02 PM EDT --
I am sick and tired of hearing about illegal immigrants. Not that there is no problem; there are millions of people in this country who don't belong here. Unfortunately, someone has spread the vicious . . .
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May 29, 2007 10:29 AM EDT --
CarryaBigSticker.com is selling a shirt that has been outlawed in several states, including Oklahoma and Arizona. The shirt is an anti-war protest that contains the names of over three thousand fallen . . .
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June 08, 2007 06:09 PM EDT --
The following column appeared previously in the The Cameron Herald:
A funny thing happened when the conservatives decided to take over the world, particularly the United States of America. Suddenly we . . .
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June 20, 2007 01:58 PM EDT --
One of the elements of a successful stage magician is misdirection of the audience’s attention. Without mastering that skill, a stage magician is nothing more than a sideshow, background noise. Indeed, . . .
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June 11, 2007 11:43 AM EDT --
An article in the Jerusalem Post states that U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman (I-Connecticut) is calling for the United States to attack Iran immediately. According to the Post, in an interview with CBS, Lieberman . . .
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November 05, 2007 07:17 PM EST --
It’s your choice, and it always has been. If you like the way the United States is going; if you really don’t miss your constitutional rights; if you really don’t mind the possibility . . .
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June 09, 2008 06:42 PM EDT --
There may be 18 million cracks in the glass ceiling, but the damned thing is still there.
Hillary Clinton has endorsed Barak Obama, asking her supporters to do the same. For those who agree with the . . .
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September 20, 2007 09:50 AM EDT --
Sometimes it is not so much the stories I hear on NPR that bother me as their juxtaposition. On the way home from taking the youngest princess to school, first I hear that the senate refused to mandate . . .
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November 06, 2007 09:17 AM EST --
There's still time to tell your representatives what you want them to do. It's your country. Participate!
Here is the link: HR 333 action form.
By the way, if you don't agree that . . .
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September 24, 2006 10:22 PM EDT --
At a time when the media appears to focus on all of the violence in the Middle East an important documentary is being shown around the country that shows the power of people working together for peace. . . .
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