Fercryingoutloud folks, please, please, please stop using the word illegal to describe people. People engage in illegal activities. Behaviors are what are declared legal or illegal, not individual people. What a person does can be ruled to be illegal. But to characterize a person in his or her entirety as “illegal” is not only demeaning […]
I love Arizona, but…
I love Arizona, but we are in the throes of violent oppression. My CODEPINK friends – who engaged in actions all over the U.S. and in war torn countries couldn’t believe the overt and thuggish collusion between recruiters and police here. Basically they couldn’t believe what routinely takes place here in Arizona, and in Tucson, […]
Huge Turnout at Phoenix Healthcare Rally Outside Obama's VFW Address
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy As I posted earlier in the day, I was at the demonstration outside the VFW gathering where Obama spoke today. I was also near these kooks who were carrying weapons. A few pieces of information that I haven’t seen mentioned in the media […]
Repurposing This Blog: Build Peace
Over the last six months I have given a tremendous amount of thought to starting a new blog that better reflects my current take on “life, the universe and everything” than my build peace blog. Everytime I would find the perfect domain name for a new venture and begin to build a new whirling […]
I'm thankful for the brave women of the peace movement.
Ann Wright, Jodie Evans, and Medea Benjamin are in Iran on a citizens diplomacy mission. I just finished reading a blog entry from Jodie. Thank heavens for citizens like them. They are such a disparate group: retired military, green party and fair trade activist, and political and eco campaigner and activist. I have met and […]
Palin is sooo retro!
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