The Radical History of Mother’s Day | NationofChange
Enjoying the day here with the family, and thought this post was a good one for remembering the true intent of the holiday. Happy Mother’s Day to all! The Radical History of Mother’s Day | NationofChange.
Be Fair to Those Who Care
Salon has a review of the third day of the Supreme Court hearings on the Affordable Care Act, titled ‘A Brutal Day for Health Care.’ What I hear on the radio and read in the news as I work in the industry has me heartsick. Science, common sense and common decency say we cannot be [...]
World AIDS Day 2011
Our generation has seen the global eradication of one devastating disease, Smallpox, and the emergence of another, Human Immunodeficiency Virus. HIV has been uniquely merciless in its reaping of the young and the healthy in their prime, in its mutations and transformations into a thousand awful ways to die. It was almost two decades into [...]
Occupy Providence to Be Evicted Sunday Evening, October 30, 2011
A notice has been given to Occupy Providence members and has been posted around Burnside Park: they have 72 hours to vacate or they will be evicted. Given that so many other groups have expressed solidarity with the Occupy movement, it is unclear how this is going to play out. My hope is that it [...]
All You Need is Love….And Unions
Just read this long piece by Kevin Drum about why unions improve life not just for union members, but for the entire middle class. The ultimate fact, as research in Drum’s article shows, is that politicians don’t do things for the middle class or the working class. We like to think Senators Whitehouse and Reed [...]
A Gift of Poetry
Shelley Shaver visited our site and left a link to her epic poem, ‘Rain– A Dustbowl Story’. Climate change and economic collapse visited our country in the Depression, Shaver gives a voice to those who survived those times.
The Distortionists
dis•tor•tion•ist (di stôr´ shə nist), n. 1. One who twists and bends reality into strange and unnatural positions. 2. One who twists or denies facts to fit their preferred political ideology, religious beliefs, or opinions. * * * * * * * * A dear friend of mine, whom I shall call Vicki in order [...]
Lia Lee
A much-visited Google query is, ‘where is Lia Lee today?’ Anne Fadiman’s book, ‘The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down’ is a powerful work of journalism, years in the making, that analyzes step by step the failures in communication and a clash of cultures that left a little girl in a chronic vegetative state– [...]
Cattle Mutilations Back in Style?
I remember this kind of thing from the 70′s… Four calves have been found dead in a pasture just north of the New Mexico state line in recent weeks. The dead calves had their skins peeled back and organs cleared from the rib cage. One calf had its tongue removed. But rancher Manuel Sanchez has [...]
All Souls
Almost a hundred years ago, a teenage girl named Constance Witherby died suddenly of heart failure while hiking in the Swiss Alps. Her bereft mother commissioned a sculpture and dedicated a small park on a quiet street near the Blackstone River. As the years passed, the neighborhood fell on hard times and the park into [...]
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