On the 10th anniversary of 9/11, the Reverend asks “What happened to peace?” As a person who was in Manhattan when the planes struck the World Trade Center and a person who had a missing family member in that area at the time I feel like the September 11th spectacles and the orgy of retrospectives […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Many Somali refugees will be observing the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. It’s a time when, among other things, people fast during the daylight hours, though they are already “fasting” due to starvation. Many Somalis are caught in the midst of what the United Nations describes the Somali drought as the worst humanitarian disaster in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Photo Credit: “point blank” by Jesse Wright It’s unfortunate that many people think of human society as being separate from, or above, nature. In reality, we are part of it. This means that the actions humans take, specifically the ones which are contributing to climate change, not only negatively effect our natural environment, but also […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Photo Credit: Yoichi R. Okamoto, White House Press Office I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin…we must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This year I have a few thoughts about Veterans Day. It’s really easy for us to wrap ourselves in the flag and make all these declarations about this great country and people making “the ultimate sacrifice” when we’re not sacrificing anything ourselves, let alone our lives. It’s much harder to sacrifice your life but I […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. -George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language,” 1946 On this day in 2001 during a televised address to a joint session of the United States Congress, U.S. President George W. Bush declared a “war on terror” against Al-Qaeda and other global terrorist groups. Be Sociable, Share! Tweet
I confess, “if I’m being completely honest” as American Idol judge Simon Cowell used to say, I have watched every season of American Idol (AI) since it started. I got hooked by the bad auditions in the beginning of the first season, not expecting to be engaged in the contestants plights and quests for stardom. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
M.I.A.’s new video directed by Romain Gavras is stirring up some controversy and not for nudity like Erykah Badu’s “Window Seat”. It was yanked from youtube in the US almost immediately. The video is violent and graphic but M.I.A., whom I am a supporter of, often speaks of violence in her music and other assorted […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: This post was written before the coal mine explosion in West Virginia. 25 coal miners have died after a huge explosion at a Massey Energy mine in Raleigh County in the worst mining disaster in the US in over 25 years. Read more about that at democracynow.org The African American Environmentalist Association was asked […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Photo Credit: AP Photo Laborers looking to help rebuild the World Trade Center are rallying to urge the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which controls the property, to make some progress in the rebuilding efforts. Be Sociable, Share! Tweet
