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darfur- take action!
most folks know that the situation in darfur is desperate. the news is never good there- and i guess i continue to wonder about how human beings can view other humans as objects to be tortured and killed. i think folks get numbed to the mindless genocide around the world and it is all too [...]
the jubilee act
ABOUT THE BILL
* The Jubilee Act expands debt cancellation to the 26 countries that require it to meet the Millennium Development Goals.
* This legislation ensures that debt cancellation funds go to poverty reduction by requiring a report of how each country used the money and calling on governments to make these spending reports easily accessible.
* [...]
Spending our Tax dollars on Abstinence-only websites?
Yes, my dear reader, our federal government is spending our tax dollars on government websites that promote abstinence-only when it comes to the sexuality of our youth.
Last time I checked that isn’t a government function, indoctrinating individuals to abstain from sex prior to “marriage”. But here it is in all it’s ahem..glory. The first words [...]
200,000 Italians March for Peace & Human Rights.
I wouldn’t believe it unless I saw it with my own eyes..but here it is..from CommonDreams.org:
ASSISI, Italy – About 200,000 people marched from Perugia to Assisi Sunday calling for “all human rights for all” and the end of wars.
The 24km “peace march” between the two towns in central Italy concluded a “peace week” featuring some [...]
House applies US Law to Federal Contractors
Its about friggin time! What took them so long? From the NYT:
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 – With the armed security force Blackwater USA and other private contractors in Iraq facing tighter scrutiny, the House of Representatives on Thursday overwhelmingly approved a bill that would bring all United States government contractors in the Iraq war zone under [...]
We must speak!
“..Elephants a-piling’ teak
In the sludgy, smudgy creek,
Where the silence ‘hung that ‘heavy you was half afraid to speak!”
With apologies to Rudyard Kipling
In August when the gas prices rose in a giant leap to $5 a gallon the protest began, quickly turning into pro democracy rallies. In a country that reveres it monks, and each boy [...]
Prajna Paramita – For the People of Burma
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Overnight – the Junta raided the Monestaries, the violence is grossly under reported – this is for them.
The Great Prajna-Paramita Heart Sutra
KAN JI ZAI BO SA GYO- JIN HAN-NYA HA RA MI TA JI
Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva, practicing deep Prajna Paramita,
SHO- KEN GO ON KAI KU- DO IS-SAI KU YAKU.
clearly saw that all five skandhas are empty, [...]
Good Orderly Direction
The Second Step of Alcoholics Anonymous explains why I’ve become a bit silent as a blogger of late. The step says simply: “Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.” Of late, I’ve been feeling off-center, dis-eased, and this emotional imbalance has been fueled by rage and a focus on [...]
