activism
November 12, 2008
- There have been many days since I did my last post. We are overjoyed at the historic election that has just taken place. Our support, from the very beginning was for Senator Obama. Now, he is President Elect Obama! I am not alone in saying that in my lifetime I did not expect to have such a candidate as he.---------------Due to the fact, I had been a staunch Republican for three decades ...
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November 10, 2008
- There is a common hypothesis, becoming increasingly popular on the eve of Obama's election (an important step forward in the history of race relations and a major change from the last eight years of Republican neo-conservative decimation, but hardly a revolutionary or progressive vanguard-to-be), that likes to call itself "color-blind". The reasoning goes somewhat like this: "The ...
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November 8, 2008
- Amaze me, AmericaSave me from ArmageddonHigh road to Heaven... - "Amaze Me" by Girlyman President-Elect Barack Hussein Obama. It has a lovely, regal ring. Every syllable of that phrase contains a hope and a promise that my generation never dared to expect. Yet here we are at a poignant moment in history, at the dawn of a new, ...
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August 31, 2008
- This Web site looks fabulous and I am looking forward to taking advantage of it --in time! Currently I am working as a community activist for the ServiceNation campaign (http://www.servicenation.org), putting together a big National Day of Action event in my home community of Davenport, IA. They are sending me to the Summit in New York on the 11th for three days, so I'm busy planning my trip ...
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June 30, 2008
- Thank you for inviting me to speak to "The Abundance League" tonight about how I found an abundant life — how I started living more by working less, earning less, and spending less.My story starts about five and a half years ago when I went in to the human resources department where I worked and asked if it would be possible for me to get a significant pay cut. As you can imagine, ...
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February 18, 2008
- Oh, the predictability.Just weeks after I wrote an editorial criticizing Matt Barber, of Concerned Women for America -- one of the first homophobic organizations to latch onto the UCSF press release relating to staph infections (MRSA) as evidence of the danger of homosexuality -- he has retaliated by quoting from a satirical article I wrote back in 2005 titled "The Gay Agenda"In my ...
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February 17, 2008
- Highlighting contemporary indigenous peoples' issues from around the world, including the indigenous peoples of the Americas, Brazil, Central America, Africa, Asia, Australia, New Zeland, Siberia, Alaska, Polynesia, India, Chile, and much more. Topics include cultures and religions, intellectual property rights, archaeology, art, health, resources, rights, and much more. Find out what is going on ...
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February 6, 2008
- It began with a sensational front page story in the San Francisco Chronicle about a new staph infection at which men who have sex with men in San Francisco were at the epicenter. The study, which appeared in the Annals of Internal Medicine, was authored by UCSF, and its findings were touted in a press release which had the unfortunate effect of turning legitimate scientific data into an exercise ...
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January 8, 2008
- John Updike once remarked that he realized, early in his career, that he could either be a reader or a writer, but he couldn’t be both. Hearing that, I felt welcomed, as it were, to one of the severest regrets of many a professional writer—the lack of time one has to pursue reading for pleasure. Deadlines, the demands of research—not to mention the fear of a sort of stylistic or tonal ...
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