MLK And Addressing Spiritual Death On Campus
“Not only are ‘leaders’ here not putting money into social uplift in lieu of diverting funds for death abroad, they are — quite by design — undermining safety nets for…
Rachel Oxman
“Emergency” Must Be Used, Embraced
"Why don't all schoolchildren know what TCE is?" -- Richard Martin Oxman "Not many people want to continue to aid and abet crimes against humanity and war crimes behind big lies…
Getting the Military’s Carbon Footprint Alone….
"This book describes a world peopled with young folk who have bypassed reading and writing and who thus have been forced to fabricate a life without the benefit of that…
So That We Can Sleep Through the Night
“ Was I sleeping, while the others suffered? Am I sleeping now? Tomorrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of today?" -- Samuel Beckett Some people…
NBA vs. NRA
"There was a point at which Jackie Robinson refused to 'respect' the flag at ball games." -- James Baldwin Demonstrators protesting the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man…
Gleaning The Meaning
In the first 11 weeks of 2018, there have been 12 school shootings. Although shootings on school campuses only make up a tiny fraction of gun injuries and deaths annually,…
The United States of Avoidance
Dr. Ron Forthofer, who wrote U.S. Mainstream Media: Empire's Too, has made a huge mistake in his characterization of the mainstream media respecting domestic issues His "mistake" is worth citing…
One Flu Not Over in the NRA Nest Where Public School Shootings Total 17 Thus Far and Home School Shootings Equal Zero
"Academia in the U.S. -- in most places -- offers kids an invitation to a mental institution where qualified medical professionals are absent and the drugs offered have not been…
The Bucket of Blood Beyond Parkland
"Sixty-eight percent of U.S. citizens believe that 'better mental health screening' would help to reduce the number of school shootings, but one has to ask what's considered mentally healthy in…
Don’t You Know What Happened?
"In less than ten years, two-thirds of the world's population could be living under water stressed conditions." -- one of the last lines of the documentary spotlighted in this…
Activist Being Through A Glass Darkly
"Dawkins... seems to suffer from a ‘god in the sky’ childhood Bible indoctrination. " -- excerpt from a colleague referring to Richard Dawkins "From the oscillating universe beating like a gigantic heart to…
What Rhymes With “Educate! Organize! Activate!”?
"Howard Zinn once wrote a book titled, You Can't Stay Neutral on a Moving Train, and that's especially true when you're headed for a precipice. Right now, activists need…
Considering Absolute Numbers
On October 12, 1961 Eugene Jacques Bullard, the first African-American fighter pilot died. I went to his funeral in the French War Veterans section of the Flushing Cemetery in…
If Anything….
"Why do men then now not reck his rod?" -- a line from God's Grandeur "Progressives, generally, are not at home with controversial religious issues, in part because they…
Oprah In The Oval Office: Curb Your Enthusiasm
"What I know for sure is that speaking your truth is the most powerful tool we all have. And I’m especially proud and inspired by all the women who have…
I Don’t Recall Witnessing Such A Blending
In No Country for Old Men, Sheriff Bell recounts his conversation with a woman who complains about "right-wing" politics: "She kept on, kept on. Finally told me, said: I…
Freedom Is Still The Name For A Thing Which Is Not Freedom
Co-Written by Rachel Oxman and C.Russell "In July 1952, in a cell block on Ellis Island, C.L.R. James began writing a book about Herman Melville. The Triinidadian journalist, historian and social theorist…
Clarion Call for The Great USed
USers (better known as "Americans") have been expressing a preference in survey polls for access to a universal health care system for quite some time. Considering their frustration with so-called…
The Third That’s Needed
"We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep." -- from The Tempest In Shakespeare's The Tempest, it is characteristic of…
Politics Not Appropriate For The Objective Classroom?
"The problem I've always had with 'objectivity' as a concept is that it doesn't have an agreed upon meaning." -- Dr. Anthony DiMaggio, author of "Confronting the Cult of Objectivity" What…
Once The Truth Is Told About Lawrence Livermore Labs
"It's only twenty minutes away, thirteen miles between Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Pleasanton via I-580, but I'd say that not a single soul among the 82,270 citizens who…
One Trick Pony Up
"He makes it Look so easy, it looks so clean He moves like God's immaculate machine" -- from Paul Simon's "One Trick Pony" "When a person expends the least…
I Know Of None
"What we do not yet know is how much of the ancient Abbasid city of Raqqa and its horseshoe walls and the gate of Baghdad built probably in the eighth…
Pardon Me
A man was starving in Capri; He moved his eyes and looked at me; I felt his gaze, I heard his moan, And knew his hunger as my own.…
The Blood That Flows Within
“If a captive mind is unaware of being in prison, it is living in error. If it has recognized the fact, even for the tenth of a second, and then quickly forgotten it in order…
Incendiary Incarceration
"I shall never forget how I was roused one night by the groans of a fellow prisoner, who threw himself about in his sleep, obviously having a horrible nightmare....…
FO Forward
"While there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison,…
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