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The primary purpose of this post is the following paragraph. I know J. and her work well. The talk on Zoom next week is very much worth your time. Upcoming: One week from today, Thursday, January 19, 7 p.m. CST. J. Drake Hamilton of Fresh Energy will be guest speaker via Zoom for Citizens for […]
This post is about activists, of whom I personally know many, including on this blog list. Activists – no matter the cause – are not large in number. A Lutheran Pastor I greatly respect, a man whose flock was college students in California in the turbulent 1960s, estimated that perhaps 2% of the students at […]
PRE-NOTE: Jan 6 Hearing 7 entitled “25” here. Another post on July 4, 2022. I’ll be off-line July 5-8. Call it what you will, but from time to time, events seem to come in seeming related groups. I’ve experienced such often in my life. I don’t think they’re ‘coincidences’ or random chance. So… Last weekend […]
The month of February has a long tradition as Black History Month. There seems to be an extraordinary portal, here, for information assembled from many sources. The site itself is hosted by the Library of Congress. I have my own feelings of course. I will restrict them to a little personal exercise I did back […]
I particularly call your attention to yesterdays post, Precinct Caucuses (as they are referred to in Minnesota, but exist everywhere, this time of year). It is easy to kick “politicians” around. Just remember, we, the people, are solely responsible for who represents us in what so far has been a democracy. (Precinct Caucus in Minnesota is […]
This post is about voting rights: the frontal assault on these rights in many of the 50 states – a commonly used number is 250 proposals to amend rights to vote in assorted ways, by the Republican Party. In the other corner is HR 1, a Congressional initiative by the Democrats to at minimum secure […]
The Inauguration of President Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris is Wednesday January 20. If you are interested, check here. About noon today (Saturday) I took the short trip over to the Minnesota State Capitol, just to see what was happening in our state’s possible ‘war zone’ in the wake of The Capitol insurrection on the […]
You have possibly heard about, and perhaps even seen, this film about Garry Davis, which premiered here in 2017. It is free, on-line now through next Wednesday, Dec 16. It’s “popcorn length” – about an hour. Thu. Dec 17, 7 p.m. there’s live on-line discussion with film producer Arthur Kanegis. Details below. Regardless of your […]
POSTNOTE July 11, 2020: from the July 9 New York Times, well worth your time. [IMPORTANT ADDED NOTE as of Sep. 16,2020 from Basilica of St. Mary, original sponsor to the Racism series described below: The University of St. Thomas has placed the Becoming Human series on a new platform on their website. To access […]
PRE-NOTE: I didn’t pre-plan my blogs, but the ones for 9-11-19, 9-20-19 and 9-23-19 fit together with todays. “Long ago” (two weeks) I didn’t factor in the phenomenal 8-night Ken Burns series on Country Music; nor the opening of the UN this week, and the Presidents dismissive comments on globalism in favor of nationalism (which […]