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Category Archives: Poor Peoples Campaign
Babies alone in concentration camps
Rachel Maddow breaks down trying to report on “tender age” shelters. Concentration Camp: a guarded compound for the detention or imprisonment of aliens, members of ethnic minorities, political opponents, etc., especially any of the camps established by the Nazis prior … Continue reading
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How Ironic
How ironic is it that a day referred to as Freedom Day finds this country denying children their freedom? Children, even very young children, forcibly taken from their parents and locked in cages. What perversion of authority could conceive of, … Continue reading
#Families Belong Together
I can’t even express how horrified and outraged I am that this country is forcibly taking children from their parents. I suspect this morally and otherwise corrupt administration is intentionally using the outrage they know will occur to force the … Continue reading
Poor Peoples Campaign–Rally to Change the Narrative
Week 6 of the Poor Peoples Campaign will focus on changing the moral narrative in this country, as described below. One rally in Iowa will be held on Monday, June 18, at 2:00 PM at the State Capitol building in … Continue reading
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Poor Peoples Campaign in Iowa and Minnesota-Economic Injustice
Week 5 of the Poor Peoples Campaign focused on economic injustice. The unbelievable maldistribution of wealth. Millions of people who live in poverty despite working full time. Children going to bed hungry. The mischaracterization that people are poor because they … Continue reading
Poor Peoples Campaign-Week 5
Everybody’s Got the Right to Live: Education, Living Wage Jobs, Income, Housing This is the fifth of six weeks of nonviolent moral fusion direct action across the country to show our elected leaders we will no longer allow attention violence … Continue reading
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Intersectionality
This is the fourth week of the Poor Peoples Campaign, which addresses how injustices are interconnected. The next event in Iowa, “Right to Health and a Healthy Planet” will be tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. at the Iowa State Capitol building. … Continue reading
Poor People’s Campaign Highlights Consequences of War
Yesterday I summarized the rally of the third week of the Poor People’s Campaign in Des Moines, Iowa. That event was held across the street from North High School because part of this week’s theme is school gun violence. Videographer … Continue reading
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Poor People’s Campaign–Gun violence and militarism
The rally of the third week of the Poor People’s Campaign was held across the street from North High School in Des Moines, Iowa. The themes were gun violence and militarism. People spoke about school gun violence, violence against people … Continue reading
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Tagged gun violence, immigration, militarized police, war
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Each Child is Sacred
For some time the Spirit has led me to think about children. While I don’t have children of my own, I was strongly connected with the children of my best friend, Randy Porter, at times living in part of the … Continue reading
Quakers, social justice and revolution 