Well, His Name IS “Newt”

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A Prayer from the Innocence Mission

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13 Questions

A social justice quiz: http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/01/30/a-social-justice-quiz/

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Ethiopia, the Ark, and the Mother of God

“Each year, on 30 November, Aksum is aroused from its sleep. Tens of thousands of Ethiopians, wrapped in their white pilgrimage attire, or gabis, converge on Aksum to celebrate one of Ethiopia’s holiest days, Mariam Zion, or Mary of Zion. They focus their attention on a modest shrine that is actually part of a cluster [...]

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No to War

#NoIranWar Day of Action  Here is a list of marches and protests to fight against the upcoming war with Iran. All will be held on the national day of action of February 4th.   1.     NYC, NY 1pm North end of Times Square – Duffy Square.  March to the US & Israeli missions to UN. 2.     Albany NY [...]

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Farmers Against Monsanto

  From the Food Democracy blog:   On January 31, family farmers will take part in the first phase of a court case filed to protect farmers from genetic trespass by Monsanto’s GMO seed, which contaminates organic and non-GMO farmer’s crops and opens them up to abusive lawsuits. In the past two decades, Monsanto’s seed [...]

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America’s 6 Million

“As the United States officially ended the war in Iraq last month, President Obama spoke eloquently at Fort Bragg, N.C., lauding troops for “your patriotism, your commitment to fulfill your mission, your abiding commitment to one another,” and offering words of grief for the nearly 4,500 members of the U.S. armed forces who died in [...]

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Will the Real Saul Alinsky Please Stand Up?

“On the night of his triumph in South Carolina, Newt Gingrich boldly announced: “The centerpiece of this campaign, I believe, is American exceptionalism versus the radicalism of Saul Alinsky.” Barack Obama did once work in a Chicago project inspired by Alinsky, the legendary community organizer who died in 1972. But, in its essence, this was [...]

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Rotten Apple

“President Barack Obama blew a kiss to Apple in the State of the Union speech, praising the entrepreneurial spirit of its founder, the late Steve Jobs, as the cameras panned to his widow in the audience. Obama’s timing couldn’t be weirder. In the last month, Apple has released a damning audit which found that almost [...]

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A Brief Cultural History

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