Michael Bryant: “the appalling silence”
Pastor Michael Bryant expands on his previous letter. -jsq Dear Pastors and fellow laborers in the Gospel of our Lord and Savior, I was born and raised here in Lowndes County. Today I am as disturbed...
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Another Sunday, another preacher against private prisons
Neal Peirce wrote: And Sicilia had a stern judgment to make — as King did in his time — about the U.S. government: “Since the war was unleashed as a means to exterminate (drug trafficking), the United...
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“a conflict of interest at its core”—church group on private prisons
Another Sunday, another church group against private prisons. This time, it includes ex-prisoners, and it went to the lion’s den: a CCA shareholder meeting. Marian Wright Edelman wrote 13 December...
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NAACP paradigm shift
Why does it matter that the NAACP wants an end to the War on Drugs? Leonard Pitts Jr. wrote for the Miami Herald 30 July 2011, NAACP’s paradigm shift on ending the Drug War Here’s why this matters. Or,...
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Marching to Occupy Valdosta 14 October 2011
Will someone pick up that sign? As you can see in the playlist, why yes, someone did! More than 100 people (estimates ranged from 110 to 150) went Marching to Occupy Valdosta. Tony Daniels and Freddie...
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Marching for rights —Mario Bartoletti @ MLK Monument Occupy Valdosta
Mario Bartoletti stood up at the Martin Luther King Jr. Monument in Valdosta and said to Occupy Valdosta: I’m just shy of 79 and I’ve been out here marching all the way today, and I’ll tell you why....
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Vote No on Unification —Sam Allen @ MLK Monument
Sam Allen spoke at the MLK Monument to say: Make your taxes go up, and you’ll end up paying more taxes. This is just one way that people making minimum wage are going to lose their home. Don’t be...
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Vote NO March & Rally
Text received Monday, poster received today. -jsq From: JC Cunningham Please read the message by Rev. Rose and then mark your calendar for Oct. 22, 2011. On that day we will have the largest...
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ALEC, Trayvon Martin, CCA’s private prisons, and charter schools?
What’s the connection between the Florida law that’s letting the killer of Trayvon Martin hide, the private prisons CCA runs in Georgia and other states, and HB 797, the Georgia charter schools bill...
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MLK and pipeline opposition
The fossil fuel opposition is the child and grandchild of Mohandas K. Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. With their nonviolence, truth, and action as a model, we shall overcome. Bill McKibben, The...
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