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Meme Alert: This Just Fell Out of My Coconut Tree . . .

  The Economist: United States | The “brat” vote Is Kamala Harris “brat”? America’s TikTok election just became more interesting Jul 25th 2024|new york “You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?”, begins a viral clip of Kamala Harris. It resurfaced in the days after Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance, but this video … Continue reading Meme Alert: This Just Fell Out of My Coconut Tree . . . →

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I Have Seen the Future, And It Includes . . .

. . .  A new Campaign . . . And Renewed Visions of the American Future: Have a Great, Busy New Week . . .

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Quakers Quitting on QUIT: Torture Wins, this time. And maybe next time, too.

I wish it wasn’t time to write this post. But it is: Quakers are quitting on QUIT. QUIT is — or rather was — the Quaker Initiative to end Torture. It began in the spring of 2005, with a call by Friend John Calvi,  just as the international scope, the vast evil plus the flagrant … Continue reading Quakers Quitting on QUIT: Torture Wins, this time. And maybe next time, too. →

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Saving Obama With Santa, In Selma 2015;

Durham, North Carolina, and Selma, Alabama In the autumn of 2014, still settling into retirement in Durham, a question began nagging at me: was Barack Obama going to get shot in Selma Alabama the following March? Now stay with me: was I just being more than normally paranoid? The short answer is No. But what’s … Continue reading Saving Obama With Santa, In Selma 2015; →

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Bernie! Still All In (Critically) for Joe Biden

New York Times Bernie Sanders: Joe Biden for President By Bernie Sanders Mr. Sanders is the senior senator from Vermont. July 13, 2024 I will do all that I can to see that President Biden is re-elected. Why? Despite my disagreements with him on particular issues, he has been the most effective president in the … Continue reading Bernie! Still All In (Critically) for Joe Biden →

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Selma Alabama Voting Rights March

. . .widely recognized as the most vivid and accurate account of the Selma movement . . .

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Memoir of early Civil Rights Movement .

. . vivid, revealing first-person counterpart to the author's highly-praised historical account, Selma 1965 . . .

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Examines the strategy & tactics, successes & failures, history & future of faith-based work to end war, and to dismantle militarism and the repression it has spawned.

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Examines the neglected role of Progressive Quakers in 19th and 20th century activism -- abolition, women's rights & more.

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How Progressive Quaker activism helped change America.

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