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Calling Armchair Activists for Progressive Actions

Calling Armchair Activists for Progressive Actions

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Here are some more actions that you can take online. Pick a couple, or do them all! Sign up for the newsletter at FactCheck.org. Sign up for The Progress Report from the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Watch the video (or read the transcript) of Abu Ghraib whistleblower Samuel Provance speaking out on torture and cover-up, and then write a letter to your local newspaper. Watch the Wage Peace: The Cost of War video at the American Friends Service…

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Once again, it’s time for “JWs in the News”

Once again, it’s time for “JWs in the News”

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Some recent media items on Jehovah’s Witnesses: Surviving a JW Sadist Alloma Gilbert has published an article – an excerpt from her upcoming book Deliver Me From Evil (March 2008) – on how she survived being starved, beaten and tortured by her Jehovah’s Witness foster mother Eunice Spry (see also the post Sadistic Foster Mom a Devout Jehovah’s Witness). Ten years later, in court, I would hold one of the sticks she routinely used to thrust down our throats and…

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An Answer to the Pseudo-Christians

An Answer to the Pseudo-Christians

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I was listening to some old comedy by the late Bill Hicks last night, and one thing he said had me on the floor laughing. He was approached by some big, hulky guys after an engagement. “Hey buddy. We’re Christians, and we didn’t like what you said.” His response? So forgive me. Keep this in mind. I have engraved it inside, and will call it out at every opportunity from now on. It will be a default, standard response to…

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Protecting Our Common Dreams

Protecting Our Common Dreams

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These are just a few of the stories I got in one email from Common Dreams. Here’s the newswire, but email subscription is recommended. “If we do not act we shall surely be dragged down the long, dark and shameful corridors of time reserved for those who possess power without compassion, might without morality, and strength without sight.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. Can you imagine a trillion? How about the almost 9 trillion of our national debt? How could…

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The MLK Test for Presidential Candidates

The MLK Test for Presidential Candidates

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Happy Memorial MLK Birthday Day. Have you wondered what Dr. King would think of the presidential candidates if he were alive? Barack Obama gave a speech took the pulpit at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta – the same church where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. helped rev up the civil rights movement. “If we’re honest with ourselves, we’ll acknowledge that our own community has not always been true to King’s vision of a beloved community. “The divisions, the stereotypes,…

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Thor Hesla Killed By the Taliban

Thor Hesla Killed By the Taliban

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Thor Hesla was killed on January 14th, 2008 in an attack by the Taliban in Kabul, Afghanistan. I may have met Thor once or twice, but I didn’t know him. My perspective on this tragedy is that I know his father, Professor Emeritus David Hesla. David Hesla is a beloved and somewhat eccentric professor, one of the original members of my home department of the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts at Emory University. Among other things, he wrote the…

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