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March For Our Lives
Tomorrow can be a tipping point! Students, teachers, parents and allies around the nation are preparing to “march for their lives” next month to rally for increased gun control and school safety measures. Less than a week ago, the students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida experienced tragedy. Seventeen people — classmates…
Read MoreWhy “Just Elders”
Why “Just Elders” I have been a community organizer since 1972. I consider myself in the tradition of Saul Alinsky. I love the philosophy, the methodology and the effectiveness of this type of organizing. I have seen it do amazing things all over the United States, in Africa and in Great Britain. I think the…
Read MoreWhat if…?
April 16, 2017 After a set of dreary, gray days laced with rain showers, this Easter morning is brightly sunny, warm and burgeoning with hope. In a curious way, this transformation stands for me as a metaphor for the past several months and for my longing for a resurrection of American citizens to an era…
Read MorePre-Retreat Trumpdom Reflections
Yesterday morning I received an email alert from a newly formed activist group in Milwaukee with a long list of things we simply have to do in the next several days to resist Trump else we are surely doomed. Why is it that I felt obligated and exhausted rather than energized and called by God?…
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