What if a military force came to your neighborhood built walls all around your block and refused to allow you to go and come as you please. How would you feel about that? What if they decided to attack your walled-in neighborhood from the sky and sent troops in to kill people too. How...
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In all of my years I’ve never watched a documentary that had more of an immediate and intimate impact than Food Inc. It shares a perspective of the food system in the United States. A perspective that tells the story of what happens when major corporations dictate how food is grown, delivered, sold, stored,...
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Photo Credit: Whitehouse.gov Christians around the world began Holy Week yesterday by commemorating Palm Sunday – a day which marks the triumphant entry of Jesus into Jerusalem. During his sojourn down from the Mount of Olives into the city, the scriptures record that he stopped and wept over Jerusalem saying in part, “If you,...
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Last Thursday, I was a guest on the Marc Steiner Show (WEAA-Baltimore) talking politics and specifically giving reaction to the President’s first State of the Union Address. Overall, I think the President gave an ok speech, but it’s what I expect from him at this point. What I wasn’t ok with at all was...
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Photo Credit: LA Progressive.Com After nine months in office as President of the United States, President Barack Obama was awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, October 9, 2009 by the Norwegian Nobel Committee. The Committee recognized him for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.” The award, named...
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The most direct and impassioned message on the occupation of the Palestinian people and the complicity of the U.S. Administration in light of that occupation came from Ali Abunimah at the Sabeel Conference in Washington, DC last week. Ali is a Palestinian political activist and co-founder of Electronic Intifada, a online forum on Palestine-Israel....
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The Senate Finance Committee chaired by Senator Max Baucus (D-MN), decided yesterday to reject amendments that would include a “public option” – a government funded, privately managed alternative to private health insurance. Despite a variety of politicians minimizing the significance of the “public option” (including the politician-in-chief, Mr. Obama); many progressives viewed it as...
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That’s the question for me. Now granted – the President delivered an amazing health care address before the Joint Session of Congress. In the midst of a partially hostile crowd and during a time when the “discussion” around health care has reached a fevered pitch in this nation, Obama delivered the type of cool...
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The topic? Healthcare of course. I had the opportunity to be on the call. I’ll withhold my opinion of it for now, but would like to share this interview that took place a short while after the “tele-townhall.” Rev. Jim Wallis of Sojourners was interviewed on The Ed Show. Wallis stayed right on message...
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Photo Credit: momsoapbox.com It’s August folks and you know what that means: our U.S. Senators and Congresswomen/men are back in their home districts just waiting to meet you. More important than meeting you; they’re waiting to hear from you as it pertains to what you believe is important. Call their office and ask to...
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