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In Defense of Rev. Jeremiah Wright
Why Barack Obama's Smooth Talk Contributes Nothing to the Liberation of the African American People
by Tom Barrett
As Illinois Senator Barack Obama has marched improbably toward the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, he has put a section of the party's leadership into a quandary. The young handsome Senator, whose inspirational speaking style is said to be reminiscent of John F. Kennedy's, has attempted to run a positive campaign, appealing to idealism rather than to resentment, and in so doing has put up a serious challenge to New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, who at one time thought the Democratic nomination was hers for the taking. It was only a matter of time until someone found something with which to tarnish Obama's silver-plated image.
For some months there has been a semi-underground campaign to portray Obama as "disloyal" to the United States—asserting falsely that he refuses to say the Pledge of Allegiance, that he is a Muslim (also false) with the implication that he is sympathetic to al-Qa'ideh, and even criticizing him for not wearing an American flag lapel pin. Obama's opponents have also attempted to capitalize on a remark by his wife, Michelle Obama, that she had only become proud of the United States of America since her husband's campaign began.
Up until now, the Internet slander campaign has not been effective. Obama has captured the imagination of a number of vital Democratic constituencies, not only African Americans nearly in their entirety, but the pro-Democrat wing of the antiwar movement, a section of the trade union leadership, and the Kennedy family and the faction which they lead. Obama has more convention delegates pledged to him than does Hillary Clinton, though neither can win a first ballot victory at the convention with elected delegates alone. It is likely that the so-called "superdelegates," those who have a convention vote by virtue of their elected office in government or the Democratic Party, will decide the nominee. Clinton is attempting to convince them that Obama cannot win in a general election against John McCain.
During the first weeks of March, the Clinton campaign seemed to find the ammunition they thought they could use against Obama. For twenty years the Obama family has attended the Trinity United Church of Christ in the South Side of Chicago. Its congregation is almost entirely African American. The home page of its website (click here to access) features African drumming and an outline map of the African continent. Its pastor, Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, is a sixty-seven-year-old veteran of civil rights struggles and has ministered to a congregation in a section of the city which epitomizes Black oppression in the industrial northern cities. It should therefore be no surprise to anyone that Dr. Wright is angry at the oppression facing African Americans in the United States and that his anger finds expression in his Sunday morning sermons.
It has been said that 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon on Sunday is the most segregated hour in American life, meaning of course that African Americans and "white" Americans (i.e., those of European descent; sometimes also called "Caucasians") do not worship together. Additionally, for the most part, African Americans in northern cities brought their religious practices with them from the South. Whites who are accustomed to the stuffy decorum of Presbyterianism, Anglicanism, or other mainstream Protestant denominations, not to mention Roman Catholicism or Judaism, are not entirely comfortable with the congregational expressiveness and uncompromising preaching that one experiences in a Southern Baptist or Pentecostal church service, whether the congregation is "Caucasian" or African American.
There are exceptions, of course: during my own youth, my family belonged to one of the few truly mixed-race Episcopal parishes in the city of Baltimore. And there are, of course, Black Roman Catholics, Presbyterians, Lutherans, and Unitarians. However, the African American religious tradition is Southern and Protestant, usually Baptist, Methodist, or Pentecostal, and even the Nation of Islam's religious services have a surprising amount in common with those of African American traditional churches, as I found out in the 1970s when, under the Honorable Wallace D. Muhammad's leadership, the group briefly reached out to whites.
The churches in the Black community have always been the organizing centers for the civil rights struggle. Their ministers have been the most eloquent and outspoken leaders of that struggle, from the time of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X until our own day. African Americans are accustomed to their clergy taking a strong stand on social and political issues, both at the pulpit on Sunday morning and in the public life of the Black community during the rest of the week. But "white" people, especially in the North, are not so used to it, and when they see a two-minute clip on the YouTube website of Rev. Dr. Wright preaching, many have a negative reaction to it and are not sure they are willing to vote for a candidate who attends a church whose pastor preaches this way.
The major news media who "broke the story" about Rev. Dr. Wright have done a disservice to their readers and listeners by quoting him out of context and only showing the most inflammatory snippets of his sermons. Cable News Network's (CNN) reporter Roland Martin, however, has examined Dr. Wright's sermons in their entirety, and he reports something very different in a March 21, 2008, article on CNN's AndersonCooper360˚ blog, an article entitled, "The Full Story Behind Rev. Jeremiah Wright's 9/11 Sermon." In fact, in the most commonly excerpted part of the sermon, Dr. Wright is in fact quoting the former U.S. ambassador to Iraq! Here is the entire quote, as presented by Martin:
"I heard Ambassador Peck on an interview yesterday. Did anybody else see or hear him? He was on FOX News, this is a white man, and he was upsetting the FOX News commentators to no end, he pointed out, a white man, an ambassador, he pointed out that what Malcolm X said when he was silenced by Elijah Muhammad was in fact true, he said America's chickens are coming home to roost."
"We took this country by terror away from the Sioux, the Apache, Arikara, the Comanche, the Arapaho, the Navajo. Terrorism.
"We took Africans away from their country to build our way of ease and kept them enslaved and living in fear. Terrorism.
"We bombed Grenada and killed innocent civilians, babies, non-military personnel.
"We bombed the Black civilian community of Panama with stealth bombers and killed unarmed teenagers and toddlers, pregnant mothers and hard-working fathers.
"We bombed Qaddafi's home, and killed his child. Blessed are they who bash your children's head against the rock.
"We bombed Iraq. We killed unarmed civilians trying to make a living. We bombed a plant in Sudan to pay back for the attack on our embassy, killed hundreds of hard-working people, mothers and fathers who left home to go to work that day not knowing that they'd never get back home.
"We bombed Hiroshima. We bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon and we never batted an eye.
"Kids playing in the playground. Mothers picking up children after school. Civilians, not soldiers, people just trying to make it day by day.
"We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and Black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff that we have done overseas is now brought right back into our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost.
"Violence begets violence. Hatred begets hatred. And terrorism begets terrorism."
A white ambassador said that, y'all, not a Black militant. Not a reverend who preaches about racism. An ambassador whose eyes are wide open and who is trying to get us to wake up and move away from this dangerous precipice upon which we are now poised. The ambassador said the people we have wounded don't have the military capability we have. But they do have individuals who are willing to die and take thousands with them. And we need to come to grips with that."
But, as Martin shows, Dr. Wright's main point was not to protest the wrong that the United States has done:
He went on to describe seeing the photos of the aftermath of 9/11 because he was in Newark, N.J., when the planes struck. After turning on the TV and seeing the second plane slam into one of the twin towers, he spoke passionately about what if you never got a chance to say hello to your family again.
"What is the state of your family?" he asked.
And then he told his congregation that he loved them and asked the church to tell each other they loved themselves.
His sermon thesis:
1. This is a time for self-examination of ourselves and our families.
2. This is a time for social transformation (then he went on to say they won't put me on PBS or national cable for what I'm about to say. Talk about prophetic!)
"We have got to change the way we have been doing things as a society," he said.
Wright then said we can't stop messing over people and thinking they can't touch us. He said we may need to declare war on racism, injustice, and greed, instead of war on other countries.
"Maybe we need to declare war on AIDS. In five minutes the Congress found $40 billion to rebuild New York and the families that died in sudden death, do you think we can find the money to make medicine available for people who are dying a slow death? Maybe we need to declare war on the nation's healthcare system that leaves the nation's poor with no health coverage? Maybe we need to declare war on the mishandled educational system and provide quality education for everybody, every citizen, based on their ability to learn, not their ability to pay. This is a time for social transformation."
3. This is time to tell God thank you for all that he has provided and that he gave him and others another chance to do His will.
This sermon was actually preached over six years ago, on September 16, 2001, the first Sunday after 9/11 itself. It is hardly breaking news.
Nor is it any more than the simple truth!
Dr. Wright's words may very well be intemperate; they are not tactful. They certainly may make many "white" people uncomfortable. But they were not spoken to white people; they were spoken to a predominantly African American congregation, long before there was any idea that one member of the congregation might be running for the presidency of the United States. If his sermons cost Obama the presidency it says more about the level of racism within the white population — and the willingness of Obama's political opponents and the media to exploit it — than it says either about the Rev. Dr. Wright or about Senator Barack Obama.
Before discussing the speech on race that Obama delivered in Philadelphia partially in response to the controversy over Dr. Wright's preaching, it is worthwhile to look at exactly who Barack Obama is, and at his connection to the African American community, its historic oppression, and its struggles for human rights, equality, justice, and economic survival.
Barack Obama has the physical characteristics of the African race: the skin pigment, the hair texture, and other attributes. But he has no personal connection to the African American people of the United States. His mother was a white woman from Kansas; his father was an immigrant from Kenya in East Africa. Obama himself was born in Hawaii, a state where many races coexist, but where there are not many Blacks. No one in Obama's family tree was ever a slave. None of his relatives ever attended a segregated school. None ever died at the hands of a lynch mob. Dr. Wright in one of his sermons made the point that no one ever called Hillary Clinton a "nigger," but one may make the same point about Barack Obama. He never experienced directly the full force of American racism, nor did anyone in his family. He may have an intellectual understanding of race and racism (though judging from his speech it is quite limited), and in his public speaking he has clearly mastered the use of Martin Luther King's oratorical style. But as for his being "Black" it is quite literally only skin-deep.
That does not necessarily disqualify him from a leadership role in the African American struggle, should he make such a choice. One of the most important early Black leaders, W.E.B. DuBois, had very little Black ancestry and was born and raised in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, in the Berkshire mountains, as far from the cotton fields as one can imagine. (At the time of DuBois's birth, not quite three years after the abolition of slavery, a majority of African Americans were directly involved in the production of cotton.) Nevertheless, he devoted his life to the cause of civil rights and was one of the founding leaders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. However, DuBois's lack of direct experience with Southern racism had an effect on his political agenda, especially in his early years.
Nor does Obama's lack of connection with the African American experience disqualify him necessarily from being elected president. What we all need to understand is this: should Barack Obama become president (and his chances are quite good), there is no reason to believe that he would be any different than any previous opportunist politician who has held the office. There is no reason to assume that he would not, to the best of his ability, protect and defend the interests of the capitalist class against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Because Obama has neither the understanding nor the instinct that the capitalist power structure is the enemy of Black people, the capitalist class does not consider him a threat, and a significant section of it is willing to use his considerable talents — and his ability to co-opt a potential radicalization of African Americans or youth — for its own benefit.
The speech which Obama gave in Philadelphia (click here for the text) was consistent with the image he is attempting to project in his campaign: it was serious and dignified, appealing to lofty ideals and expressing reverence for the "founding fathers" and the republic which they brought into being in that same city of Philadelphia. There are no clever one-liners or polemical "zingers." There are no attacks on political opponents nor any expression of the anger that one might feel is justified coming from a person of color in these United States. The speech is intended to convey the idea that Obama is more interested in "public service" to the United States than in advancing his career as a politician and being elected to the most powerful political office on earth. It's even possible that he really believes this. In any case, the speech, which Obama wrote himself, was quite excellent in its tone and delivery. The only thing wrong with it was what he actually said.
Of Rev. Dr. Wright's sermons, Obama said:
But the remarks that have caused this recent firestorm weren't simply controversial. They weren't simply a religious leader's effort to speak out against perceived injustice. Instead, they expressed a profoundly distorted view of this country — a view that sees white racism as endemic, and that elevates what is wrong with America above all that we know is right with America; a view that sees the conflicts in the Middle East as rooted primarily in the actions of stalwart allies like Israel, instead of emanating from the perverse and hateful ideologies of radical Islam.
No, Dr. Wright's view of this country is not distorted at all. Racism is endemic to American capitalism. How could it be otherwise? African slavery had been a foundation of the colonial economy in the Western Hemisphere (under the Spanish and Portuguese) for a full century before the English colony at Jamestown was even settled. Just as slaves were necessary for the profitable production of sugar cane in the Spanish and Portuguese colonies, they were necessary for the profitable production of tobacco in Virginia. Africans were not enslaved because of prejudice against people with black skin. It was completely a matter of economics and practicality: the native peoples did not make good slaves — they knew the country and for that reason had a much better chance of escaping; if they did not escape they simply died under the strain of servitude and the whites' diseases. People with black skin were easy to identify and far from home; consequently it was not so easy for them to escape. The first advertisements for slaves in the Jamestown colony emphasized that they had been exposed to smallpox and were no longer susceptible to it.
In the Americas slavery was an essential component of the early accumulation of capital by the merchant class. Without the "triangular trade" of slaves, sugar cane, and rum –– later to include textiles and other manufactured goods — the bankers would never have had the cash on hand to invest in the industries that formed the foundation of the capitalist economy and society. So, for the first two-and-a-half centuries following the first English settlement in what is now the United States, Blacks lived and worked here as slaves. The capitalist economy developed with slavery as an integral factor in that economy.
The abolition of slavery in 1865 did not eliminate the need for cheap labor in Southern agriculture. The textile mills still needed inexpensive cotton after slavery was abolished, just as they needed it before slavery was abolished. In the 1880s and 1890s Southern legislatures imposed the "Black Codes," the system of segregation which became known as "Jim Crow." The purpose was to keep African Americans bound to the cotton fields almost as medieval serfs and to deprive them of any political power which might enable them to break free. This system of enforced white supremacy remained in force until the 1950s and 1960s. Though the civil rights movement struggled valiantly from the early years of the twentieth century, it was not until after World War II –– when Southern agriculture was extensively mechanized and the need for cheap Black labor was no longer so acute — that the federal government intervened for its own reasons on the side of the civil rights struggle. This happened within Barack Obama's own lifetime. This is not the dim and distant past.
This aspect of racism — its central and historic role in the foundation of American capitalism — was completely absent from Obama's "discussion" of race. Instead, he focused on skin-color prejudice, a serious problem to be sure, but something which grew out of economically-based racism. Economically-based racism does not necessary involve hatred of whites for African Americans — so long as the Black folks know their place! All one needs to do is to read Margaret Mitchell's self-justifying Gone with the Wind to get an idea of how the slave masters "loved the darkies." To this day Southern apologists for racism will argue that "Northerners," from the Abolitionists to the civil rights activists of our own day, never understood Southern ways, and will contrast the virulent hatred that Blacks have faced in Northern cities with the genteel (read: patronizing) affection with which Southern aristocrats treated their Black maids and gardeners. There is some truth in what they say: it is hard to imagine more vicious race hatred than that which exploded, for example, in South Boston in 1974 but has hardly been unique to that city.
Racism is rooted in the need for cheap labor for certain jobs necessary to the local capitalist economy. Skin-color prejudice is fundamentally based in competition between Blacks and immigrants (or their descendants) for jobs. By the 1840s there were significant communities of free Blacks in many cities, especially along the coasts in the Southern states, from Baltimore, Maryland, all the way to New Orleans, Louisiana. Many trades were reserved for them: for example, in the Baltimore shipyards, the caulking trade was reserved for free Blacks. (Frederick Douglass even worked briefly as a caulker in the Baltimore shipyards.) When Irish immigrants, fleeing the Potato Famine, arrived in many of these cities and saw signs in front of workplaces reading, "No Irish need apply," there were often free Blacks working there.
The employing class has made use of racial competition for jobs and economic position ever since, often bringing in Black workers as replacement for white strikers and using poor Southern whites to carry out violence against Blacks who challenged the Jim Crow system. However, the early Communist Party successfully combated white workers' race hatreds in the trade unions, and in the 1930s and 1940s the employing class was unable to use racial competition to defeat the greatest labor upsurge ever witnessed. After the McCarthy era had destroyed radical leadership in the trade union movement, however, white racism returned to challenge the civil rights movement's struggles against job and housing discrimination in Northern states.
The facts clearly show: militant working-class solidarity is the only true antidote to the poison of racial prejudice. However, one hears nothing of this from Barack Obama. While acknowledging the misplaced resentment by white workers who are struggling in an increasingly unfavorable economy, the only answer Obama can give is a paternalistic liberal answer: a few more crumbs from the master's table. That will hardly suffice when any fool can predict that competition for those crumbs will increase racial tension, not reduce it.
So, Obama has a completely insufficient answer to the problem of white-skin prejudice and not even an acknowledgment of the racism which forms a key part of the foundation of American capitalism itself. And this speech is being praised as a serious discussion of the race problem in the United States?
Rev. Dr. Wright spoke out eloquently against the imperialist foreign policy of the United States, citing the military action in Grenada, Panamá, and Iraq, and even the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. He criticized Washington's support for "state-sponsored terrorism" against Black South Africans and Palestinian Arabs. Dr. Wright was correct on all counts. Justice demands that we speak out against these crimes, and there can be no lasting peace short of the final defeat of imperialism throughout the world. But Barack Obama takes issue with Dr. Wright on this as well, describing the apartheid state of Israel as a "stalwart ally" and blaming the conflict in the Middle East on the "perverse and hateful ideologies of radical Islam."
The only way Obama could make such a statement is by being either completely ignorant of the entire Middle East conflict as well as the history of U.S. involvement in that region or by simply lying and hoping that the American people have as short a memory and as little understanding of the world as the cynical politicians seem to believe.
Since the Iranian revolution of 1979 and the "hostage crisis" of that year, and especially since the events of September 11, 2001, "radical Islam" has replaced "Communism" as the "enemy," with all the hysteria, dishonesty, and militaristic "patriotism" that one can expect. But what role has it played in the conflict between Zionism and the Arab people of Palestine? In fact, its role has been small until quite recently.
The Palestinian people are Muslim in their majority, but it is not an overwhelming majority. A substantial number are Christians, and some of the central leaders of the Palestinian resistance movement, have come from the Christian community, including the revered George Habash, the founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. In 1968 the Palestine Liberation Organization, led by al-Fateh's Yassir Arafat, adopted the Palestine National Charter, which set as its goal the establishment of a "Democratic Secular State" in Palestine, a state in which Jews, Christians, and Muslims would have equal rights and responsibilities.
The organization associated with "radical Islam" in the Zionist-Palestinian conflict is Hamas, which began to take shape in the Gaza strip during the first Intifadeh of the late 1980s, that is, twenty years after the Palestine National Charter. Outside of Gaza very few people knew what was going on; however, I heard a report from a young Palestinian Arab who worked in the Alternative Information Center, an anti-Zionist alliance of Palestinian Arabs and Israeli Jews, that Israel was financing the "Muslim Brothers" in Gaza. He explained that Israel was trying to create a conservative religious — and therefore anti-Communist — formation as an alternative to the Palestine Liberation Organization. This was consistent as well with U.S. policy. The CIA and other U.S. agencies were providing money and weapons to the most reactionary Islamic forces in Afghanistan to help them fight against the left-leaning Afghan government and the Soviet troops who were supporting it. One of the leaders of the Islamic anti-Communist forces was one Usama bin Ladin, who used his family's considerable wealth to build up a network of fighters loyal to the Sa'udi Arabia–based Wahhabi sect of Islam. He called his network "The Foundation," the Arabic word for which is "al-Qa'ideh."
Not only is "radical Islam" not the cause of conflict between Israel and the Arab people of Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Egypt, "radical Islam" has developed with the aid and support of both Israel and the United States as an instrument of imperialist foreign policy. This cannot possibly be news to Barack Obama. One might expect such ignorance from George W. Bush, but not from Obama. No, I believe that Obama is cynically lying to the African Americans and young people who are supporting his campaign and sending a signal to the business community that he will loyally defend their interests.
Washington's "stalwart ally" Israel, by contrast, has indeed been the cause of violent conflict in the Middle East since the period immediately following the First World War — yes, First World War, not Second. Zionist settlers, originally welcomed by the Arabs of Palestine, began the process of ethnic cleansing as soon as they were able to acquire land for their early settlements. They would buy the land from absentee landlords and then expel the peasants who had been working the land as tenant farmers. The displaced fallaheen fought back, and in the 1930s thousands of British troops were sent into Palestine to try to keep order. During the 1930s and 1940s, the Zionists carried out acts of terrorism, including the bombing of the King David Hotel and the massacre of civilians at Deir Yassin, as part of their campaign to clear the future territory of Israel of unwanted native Arabs.
Once the state of Israel was established, the Arabs within its borders were subjected to second-class citizenship, similar to that suffered by African Americans in the pre–Civil Rights South or the native Black Africans in South Africa. Indeed, Israel and South Africa maintained a close relationship starting during Israel's early years. South Africa allowed its Jewish citizens to fight in the Israeli armed forces without losing their South African citizenship, and Israel, whose primary export in its first decades was cut diamonds, was a major buyer of rough diamonds from South Africa. The Israeli foreign minister at the time of the Six-Day War, Abba Eban, was himself South African. The apartheid system ended in South Africa in 1994, but it continues in the state of Israel today, as Arabs are subjected to checkpoints, water restrictions, and even demolition of their homes. As a member of Trinity United Church of Christ, there is no way that Barack Obama was not aware of this situation. If he can make the unqualified statement that Israel is a "stalwart ally," knowing what he knows, then one can only conclude that he approves of Israel's actions.
If Barack Obama is elected President, he may very well bring about "change" as he has promised, but it won't be change that benefits working people, either here or abroad. It certainly won't be change that benefits African Americans, Latinos, or Native Americans. The kind of change he is talking about is change that will make government more efficient in protecting big business's ability to make profit. The change he seeks to make is to bring about class and racial peace so that workers will accept a lower standard of living and people of color will forego equal rights and opportunity in the "national interest," which really means massive profits for multinational corporations. The real debate in the 2008 election is not that kind of change, which John McCain and Hillary Clinton support as much as Obama does. The real question is, Which candidate is best able to bring it about the kind of change that will benefit the capitalists? And in his Philadelphia speech on race, Barack Obama has made a good case that he is indeed that candidate.
Jeremiah Wright has spent the past several decades ministering to one of the most oppressed communities in the United States, to people suffering the effects of poverty, crime, police brutality, drug addiction, and terrible diseases including HIV/AIDS. He has consistently preached the truth as he has seen it, and he has devoted his life to public service on the level of individuals and families. When all is said and done and the ledger is tallied, it will very likely show that it was Dr. Wright who did more in service to others than did Barack Obama, even though Obama has already risen to great power and may rise to the most powerful political office on earth. In the words attributed to Jesus Christ, in Mark 8:35–36, "For whosoever will save his life will lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it. For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" Rev. Dr. Wright has been true to his moral principles and has done his best to tell the truth as he as seen it. He will be remembered as a good man.


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Legacies: Racism and Resistance in New Orleans Before and After Katrina
A Reader for Katrina solidarity classes and reading groups
Section I: SOME HISTORY OF RACISM AND RESISTANCE IN NEW ORLEANS BEFORE KATRINA
A. Prelude
B. A Bit of History
C. Some Examples of Resistance since the 1970's
- 1992
(Ed: The pictures in this calendar give a visual snapshot of the powerful tradition of grassroots racial justice organizing in New Orleans that has been recreated in the aftermath of Katrina.)
Section II: "THEY LEFT US HERE TO DIE"
"They left us here to die, and when we didn't die, they tried to drive us out of our homes, and when we didn't leave, they said they would knock our houses down," said Mama Dee. Mama Dee is a community activist and elder who has lived her entire life in New Orleans' Seventh Ward.
(From 'Fighting for the right to rebuild New Orleans,' by Karen Shain. SAN FRANCISCO BAY VIEW. Oct. 12, 2005.)
Date Published: August 21, 2006
Organization: Justice For New OrleansDate Published: August 22, 2006
Organization: INCITE! Women of Color Against ViolenceDate Published: August 25, 2006
Date Published: August 25, 2006
Date Published: August 25, 2006
Organization: Common Ground CollectiveDate Published: August 29, 2006
Organization: Peoples Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight CoalitionDate Published: August 29, 2006
Organization: INCITE! Women of Color Against ViolenceDate Published: September 16, 2006
Date Published: September 17, 2006
Organization: Center for Community ChangeDate Published: October 1, 2006
SOME EXAMPLES OF GRASSROOTS RACIAL JUSTICE ORGANIZING IN NEW ORLEANS AFTER KATRINA^ Top of Page
Section IV: ANTI-RACIST SOLIDARITY: SOME PERSPECTIVES AND TOOLS
Organized alphabetically by organization and author:
- 10/25/2005
- 12/01/2005
- 08/12/2007
Section V: SOME RESOURCES AND LINKS
- Some Grassroots Racial Justice Organizations in New Orleans
- Some Web Resources for Information and Action
- Some 'One Year After Katrina' Reports and Analyses. August, 2006
- Some 'Two Years After Katrina' Reports and Analyses. August, 2007
- General Background

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The new Disney Pixar movie Inside Out is fun for the whole family and the new Inside Out Thought Bubbles game is fun for kids of all ages, and bored adults who want to relive an arcade style game from their childhood. Here's what you need to know about the Inside Out Thought Bubbles game.
Inside Out Thought Bubbles is a free to play game that delivers Bust-A-Move style gameplay inside an Inside Out world with characters and goals that expand on the movie. Different color bubbles match up with different emotions that users need to manage and match to complete levels.
Use this as a fast guide for parents to read before playing Inside Out Thought Bubbles or to help guide players to the right path to win.
What is Inside Out Thought Bubbles?
The Inside Out Thought Bubbles game takes place inside Riley's head where players can work through 125 levels inside Riley's mind with the help of different emotions and special power ups.
Players must match the thought bubbles that they fling onto the board with those already above the playing field. There are power-ups to help players get past really tough areas. At the simplest this is a matching game playable by kids of all ages, but there is some strategy needed for tougher levels.
The Inside Out Thought Bubbles game is available on iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows, Windows Phone and Amazon Fire.
Inside Out Thought Bubbles Rating
The Inside Out Thought Bubbles game is rated 4+ by Apple and Everyone by Google Play. This means the game contains no objectionable material per Apple's guidelines. The Everyone rating on Google Play means, "Content is generally suitable for all ages. May contain minimal cartoon, fantasy or mild violence and/or infrequent use of mild language."
We have yet to see any major complaints from parents or users about the appropriateness of content in the game.
Inside Out Thought Bubbles Ads & Social Networks
There are ads in the Inside Out Thought Bubbles game, which is an aspect that some parents will want to know about. Here's a primer on what is included in the game, so parents can decide if the options are OK, and how kids should handle ads and connectivity options. Disney Pixar advises,
- social media links to connect with others
- the option to accept push notifications to let you know when we have exciting updates like new content
- links to online stores to purchase real products
- registration to create or sign in using a Disney/an existing account
- advertising for some third parties
- as well as advertising for The Walt Disney Family of Companies
It is not surprising to see ads inside games or options to buy items, but parents need to make sure kids know how to treat these options.
Inside Out Thought Bubbles In App Purchases
Like most free to play games, there are Inside Out Thought Bubbles in app purchases that players can buy to get past harder levels and to unlock power ups. The purchases range from 99 cents up to $49.99 for a Gem Pack that delivers help to beat levels.
The option to spend nearly $50 in-game is a reason that parents should control n-app purchases with Family Sharing or discuss these options with their children.
After playing through the easy levels, many gamers may feel the need to buy a gem pack to get past a particularly tough level. iTunes user cornn1p writes,
"Addictive game but like a few others said before once you reach a certain level it's impossible to win without spending money to buy gems. Maybe add a way to earn gems like other games do by viewing advertisements, etc. it's just extremely frustrating to be stuck on the same level forever and have no way to beat it. Eventually this app will end up deleted just like the other games that make it impossible to play without spending lots of money."
This is a fairly common complaint in free to play games.
Inside Out Thought Bubbles Power-ups
To complete some harder levels gamers will need to use Inside Out Thought Bubbles Power-ups and powers. Each of the emotions has a power that they can use, and there are three other paid power ups that gamers can buy using gems, which the user must buy with real money.
- Joy Power-up – Use this to clear any orbs of a color in a burst once charged up.
- Sadness Power-up – Unlock at level 15 to turn all orbs in a line blue and knock off orbs below them.
- Anger Power-up – Unlock at Level 51 to shoot a fireball through orbs in a straight line.
- Line Power – 5 Gems Unlocked at Level 8 – Use this to extend your aiming line.
- Rainbow Memory – 5 Gems Unlocked at Level 13 – Match all colors this orb hits.
- Extra Choices – 5 Gems Unlocked at Level 19 – Adds tow more orbs to your launcher.
As you play through the four types of Inside Out Thought Bubbles levels, you'll need to learn which of these power-ups work best in specific situations.


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Stitches Trailer (2012)
"You'll die laughing..." 19 May 2012 Horror 86 mins
The clumsy and unfunny clown Richard "Stitches" Grindle entertains at the 10th birthday party of little Tom, but the boy and his friends play a prank with Stitches, tying his shoelaces. Stitches slips, falls and dies. Six years later, Tom gives a birthday party for his friends at home, but Stitches revives to haunt the teenagers and revenge his death.
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Gordon MacEwan bought five nonrefundable JetBlue round-trip tickets for a family vacation to Florida — and then couldn't go.
His wife had taken ill. Seriously enough to keep the whole family home.
MacEwan, of Duxbury, Mass., was ready to eat the five cancellation fees as a small price to pay for his spouse to get well. He knew in advance his lower priced tickets were, after all, nonrefundable — right?
Not so fast.
Our forum cup continues to runneth over with ticket refund issues and no relief on the horizon as airlines look for ways to be more "competitive." The Airlines Reporting Corporation, an airline-owned IT tracking system providing the travel industry with analytical data information services, reports to-date total sales for 2016 of $23.3 billion including refund and exchange fees.
And fees there are — plenty of them. But according to Money, CNN, and CNBC the airlines may not be keeping as much of it as we think. That is not for me to decide, and am not worried. If any of this is correct, then prying a voluntary refund of a nonrefundable ticket (there's that phrase again) out of the clutches of any airline is even more of an accomplishment.
"My family booked five round-trip tickets to Florida on JetBlue," began MacEwan. "Unfortunately, my wife had to have radiation treatments the week we were scheduled to be away. I called JetBlue to cancel all five tickets and the agent couldn't have been nicer. She informed me of the cancellation fee for each ticket, which I fully expected."
Refunds are customarily provided when there is a death in the family or an unexpected medical predicament prevents travel. Without this documentation, airlines may provide refunds for coach tickets as a credit.
MacEwan was not entirely aware of this. And that's OK. Not everyone is.
Airlines balance lower, nonrefundable coach fares with the sky-high prices of refundable tickets in response to supply and demand. And, let's be honest — some fliers accept the risk of cheaper, nonrefundable fares only to complain later when they miss their flight and no medical or family emergencies exist. Trying to get a refund under those circumstances diverts the airlines' attention from truly deserving refund requests.
JetBlue's change and cancellation policy is clear and no pushover.
So, what now?
"After the tickets had been cancelled and the paperwork was done, I asked the rep if there was any provision for a refund of my wife's ticket for medical reasons," MacEwan inquired. "I was only hoping for relief from my wife's fees because the rest of our family could still have flown."
"The agent apologized profusely for not asking why we were cancelling at the beginning of our conversation."
Profusely? They really didn't do anything wrong.
"The agent spoke with a supervisor who immediately refunded my wife's refund fee," added MacEwan.
"And my fee as well."
"And reduced the fees for the other three members of my family."
Without documentation?
JetBlue could have stopped at the first refund after graciously granting MacEwan's request, but not this time. Even though he did not think to ask.
"Since people are always seeking your help with problems, I wanted to share a very good experience," he went on.
That kind of empathy shouldn't be extraordinary. Let's do our part to help encourage it by taking a moment to recognize a good deed as MacEwan did — instead of only complaining.
"This is just another example why JetBlue is my favorite airline," he concluded. "Thanks for listening and keep up your great work!"
We intend to, and so should our readers.


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Last Night on Late Night: James Franco Arrived on Jimmy Kimmel by Hot Air Balloon
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Last night on Live, James Franco took a page from Oz, The Great and Powerful, and descended from his hot air balloon onto a yellow brick road that led him straight to Jimmy Kimmel's sarcasm. Plus: Allison Williams reflected on a typical day in her life — "There was a naked gentleman lying on my back for six hours ... And then you go get sushi after that." Also, a huge African ground horn bill bird scared the bejesus out of Jimmy Fallon; and Anne Hathaway jumped up for a Valentine's Day dance. Watch our compilation to see what you missed.


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November 2017 - January 2018
I would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year and hope you all had a wonderful holiday with family & friends. As we enter 2018 it is the start to another busy and successful year for Kluane First Nation. We will be finalizing the service agreement on the Water Treatment Facility (WTF) and putting the final touches to our Strategic Priorities. I will be in Reno for the Annual Sheep Show when KFN auction's their hunt on Saturday January 20, 2018 Congratulations to David Dickson on receiving the Frank Golata Award which is a Bronze Sculpture for the Outstanding Outfitter of the year for 2017 Sheep Hunt with hunter Bill Grissom from the Wild Sheep Foundation International Conference. I will be attending Mineral Roundup in Vancouver on January 22-25. In February all departments will be working on workplans and budgets for the 2018-2019 year and submit for approval by Council in March. Council will be holding a community meeting in the next couple of months to discuss Home Ownership and Rental Rates for housing. Council will be attending Kluane Development Community Limited Partner (KCDLP) Strategic Planning session on January 30th in Whitehorse.
KFN did a bison hunt at Cultus Camp on March 10-12, 2017. It was very cold but we had many KFN Citizens and Community members come out. We would like to do another one in March but the dates have not been set. Notices will go out when we have the hunt again. Last years hunt was unsuccessful but everyone enjoyed the winter camping. Food and gas was provided but participants were expected to help cook and help out around camp. We would like to welcome everyone to the camp and hope that this may turn into an annual event.
Any Citizens who are interested to be a member on the Dän Keyi Renewable Resources Council (DKRRC) are encouraged to submit a nomination form which are available KFN's website www.kfn.ca
Attached are KFN's Council dates for 2018
Chief & Council
Elders Council
January 11-12
January 23
February 21-22
February 14
March 22-23
March 21
April 19-20
April 18
May 17-18
May 16
June 14-15
June 13
July 12
July 11
August 9
August 8
October 18-19
October 17
November 15-16
November 14
KFN AGA will be held on July 13-15, 2018 at Duke Meadow.
Shä̖w níthän,
Chief Bob Dickson
August 2017 - October 2017
It has been a busy few months and with winter fast approaching it will remain consistently busy with various meetings that I attend including those with Canada & Yukon Government, Southern Tutchone Tribal Council, CYFN Leadership, Yukon Forum and the Chiefs Committee on Education. Council will be finalizing their strategic plan, and are currently looking to resolve Home Ownership and Rentals issue for housing in the next couple of months.
We have been successful in hiring some new staff recently. I would like to ask you to join me in welcoming the following people to Kluane First Nation Administration:
Kathleen Johnson, Case Manager, Wellness & Education Department
Nichole Williams, Governance Analyst/Assistant Negotiator, Governance Department
Tracey Hunter, Implementation Projects Assistant, Governance
Monica Johnson, Special Projects, Executive Department
Please be sure to watch for posters and announcements on our Facebook, Web page and at the KFN Administration front desk about late fall/winter classes, workshops that will be offered in Jacquot Hall. These classes and workshops are an opportunity to learn new skills and connect with family and community members and socialize. I encourage everyone to participate.
November and December will be busy months for meetings held in Ottawa. I will be attending PM forum on November 1st. Modern Treaties and Reconciliation on November 14-16. Assembly of First Nations Special Chiefs Assembly on December 5-7 and Yukon Forum on December 15.
Please note that KFN administration offices will be closed for Christmas Holidays from December 22nd –January 2nd 2018.
Shä̖w níthän,
Chief Bob Dickson
April 2017-July 2017
I hope everyone has been enjoying their summer so far. It has been a busy few months with all the Annual General Assemblies taken place. Southern Tutchone Tribal Council held their AGM at Duke Meadow on June 17th. KFN's Annual General Assembly was also held at Duke Meadow on June 23-25. KFN council attended CYFN's General Assembly held in Carcross on June 27-29. Assembly of First Nation's AGA is scheduled on July 24-27.
Over the past few months I have been attending numerous meetings including, Yukon Forum, Parks Canada, Platinum Prophecy, Functional School plan with YG, STTC board meetings, Chiefs Committee on Education, CYFN Leadership meetings, ongoing meetings with Yukon Government and Canada. A celebration was held at Soldier's Summit for the Alaska Highway's 75th Anniversary on June 29th with a great turnout. I was fortunate enough to attend the Iconic Experiences at Big Horn which was put on in partnership with Parks Canada and Kluane Community Development Corporation.
Wellgreen has completed hiring for the summer 2017 work term and will be hosting an event in August for all residents and citizens to come meet staff and discuss what future possible employment opportunities may occur as the company receives permits and begins planning for production. Watch for an announcement about this event early in August.
I am looking forward to attending the 7th Annual Culture & Harvest Gathering at Lake Creek on August 7-11; Council will be having their monthly meeting at Lake Creek on August 11.
With hunting season fast approaching I encourage all citizens to safely harvest sustainably.
Shä̖w níthän,
Chief Bob Dickson
December 2016-March 2017
Spring is finally here and it's great to be outside and enjoying the sun and warmer weather. Council continues to have open meetings every month and we look forward to have feedback on moving forward together as a Nation.
I continue to attend monthly CYFN leadership meetings and will be attending the CYFN GA this year in Carcross, YT. Other meetings that I have attended were intergovernmental meetings with Premier and Cabinet, Minister Bennet and her staff.
I attended the sheep auction this year in Reno, Nevada, USA and the bid was successful with a higher bid than in the past few years. Dickson Outfitters will be managing the hunt and Council is requesting its citizens to not hunt the big trophy rams for subsistence but to target the smaller rams or rams that will never be a record ram, for example rams with broken horns, etc. The sheep hunt dollars goes into conservation funds and the trapper's incentive dollars are funded directly from the Sheep Hunt and last season the trapper's incentive was suspended because of previous low sheep auction price. Remember this hunt is only for approximately another 20 years and part of the monies received is set aside for conservation. Council asks that you please don't hunt in the special sheep guiding area.
Councillor-at-Large Monique Martin and I both sit on the Southern Tutchone Tribal Council (STTC) as Kluane First Nation representatives. The STTC had its first meeting with KFN since the election in October 2016. We went over the STTC budget and work plans. The STTC has set the theme for 2017 as year of traditional song learning. The STTC will be coming to the communities to learn traditional songs. This year the STTC GA is set for June 17, 2017 and will be held at Duke Meadows. I encourage all citizens to attend and visit our STTC members from Ta'an Kwachan and Champagne Aishihik First Nation.
KFN held its strategic planning meeting on March 28, 2017. The strategic plan will be complete soon and will be available on the website and administration office. The strategic plan was a good meeting with input from citizens and provided some update as to what has been happening before the new Council came in on October 2017.
Kluane First Nation has been working closely with the Yukon Government to develop the school functional plan. The functional plan has had input form community members and elders from Burwash Landing. We hope that the functional plan will be completed in full and then the next steps will be taken to secure a school in Burwash Landing. KFN has been in recruitment stage for a few months for an Executive Director and we have successfully hired as of April 12, 2017. KFN is dedicated to hiring KFN citizens and we are currently working on student summer positions to be posted by early May 2017.
KFN had a bison hunt in March 10, 2017 with the temperatures at night dipping to –37 degrees Celsius. The hunt was unsuccessful but it was great to hunt and camp with everyone.
We look forward to the coming summer months and encourage everyone to attend the KFN GA and STTC GA to be held at Duke Meadows. For more information on the General Assemblies, please see KFN Reception.
Shä̖w níthän,
Chief Bob Dickson


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Dealing with Construction Permits: Argentina made obtaining a building permit more expensive by adopting a new tax law for the city of Buenos Aires.
Dealing with Construction Permits: Argentina made dealing with construction permits more difficult by increasing municipal fees.
Paying Taxes: Argentina made paying taxes less costly by increasing the threshold for the 5% turnover tax. Argentina also made paying taxes easier by introducing improvements to the online portal for filing taxes.
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Trading across Borders: Argentina increased the time, cost and number of documents needed to import by expanding the list of products requiring nonautomatic licenses and introducing new preapproval procedures for all imports.
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Now Reading Prayers to Broken Stones by Dan Simmons.
Just finished Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt.
I'd like to start out by stating that this book is not quite what I was expecting. I was rather expecting something on how economies of scale create bizarre convergent behavior that results in the tragedy of the commons…. er, for example.
Instead, it's more of a collection of short essays illustrating a few key theories. People are mostly honest, except when they have an incentive to cheat. Hoarding information can be a good strategy, but don't rely on it. Organized crime is structured like a tournament. Given your first name and age, an educated guess can be made about your socioeconomic status. And, the drop in the nationwide crime rate in the 1990′s was due to Roe v. Wade in the 1970′s.
However, the theme of the book is mostly an admonishment not to confuse correlation with cause; conventional wisdom is often guilty of doing so and is not to be trusted.
While the book was well written and easy to read (I finished it in an afternoon, after procrastinating for a long while) and also interesting enough, it wasn't quite as packed with exciting new ideas as I was hoping it would be.


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Duties include developing, implementing and managing veterinary processes, programs and systems that address health and disease prevention needs in a shelter environment to reduce euthanasia, enhance life expectancy and reduce behavior problems in shelter animals.
Duties may also include providing sterilization and rabies vaccinations for all animals adopted and rabies vaccinations for animals reclaimed; assessing and maintaining the health of animals with the shelter; completing regular rounds of the animals in the shelter and providing veterinary care to the animals; maintaining veterinary records of animals seen, veterinary procedures performed, and medications prescribed; writing and updating policies and procedures related to the veterinary care of animals in the shelter. Work is performed under general supervision and is evaluated in terms of the effectiveness of the veterinary program.
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Identifies animal cruelty, consults during cruelty investigations and provides expert witness testimony.
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text: Sexual Health and Crisis Pregnancy Programme The HSE Sexual Health Crisis Pregnancy Programme (SHCPP) is a national programme with responsibility for implementing the National Sexual Health Strategy, Ireland's first national framework for sexual health and wellbeing. The strategy takes a life course approach, which is a key underpinning concept in the Healthy Ireland (HI) framework. It acknowledges the importance of developing a healthy attitude to sexuality throughout childhood and adolescence and builds on that foundation for positive sexual health and wellbeing into adulthood and older age through the following goals:Goal 1Sexual health promotion, education and prevention: Everyone living in Ireland will receive comprehensive and age appropriate sexual health education and/or information and will have access to appropriate prevention and promotion services.Goal 2Sexual health services: Equitable, accessible and high quality sexual health services that are targeted and tailored to need, will be available to everyone.Goal 3Sexual Health Intelligence: Robust and high quality sexual health information will be generated to underpin policy, practice, service planning and strategic monitoring.The Programme also has 3 mandates laid down by Statutory Instrument in related to crisis pregnancy: A reduction in the number of crisis pregnancies by the provision of education, advice and contraceptive services.A reduction in the number of women with crisis pregnancies who opt for abortion by offering services and supports which make other options more attractive.The provision of counselling services, medical services and such other health services for the purpose of providing support after crisis pregnancy, as may be deemed appropriate by the Programme.All functions of the Programme (Clinical, Funding, Education and Information, Research and Policy, Administration) contribute to the development and implementation of projects that fulfill the National Sexual Health Strategic Goals and the crisis pregnancy mandates.Our FunctionsRecent InitiativesPictured l-r : I IFPA Chief Executive Niall Behan, IPU President Kathy Maher, Darragh O'Loughlin Secretary General IPU,Kate O'Flaherty, Director Health and Wellbeing Programme, Healthy Ireland and Helen Deely Sexual Health and Crisis Pregnancy Programme Lead. In this section Healthy Eating and Active Living Programme Sexual Health and Crisis Pregnancy Programme Tobacco Free Ireland Programme Alcohol - Reducing Harms Programme Healthy Childhood Programme Positive Ageing Programme Health Care Associated Infections Staff Health and Wellbeing Programme


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With Osama Bin Laden and Muammar Gaddafi out of the way, we thought we could at least enjoy spring training without fear. But thanks to the ever-vigilant wingnut industry, we have a whole new face of evil to keep us awake at night.
That cute brownie selling you Tagalongs at the Wal-Mart? That junior high girl scout sporting the crowded badge vest as she entices you with Thin Mints? The senior Gold Award girl organizing the neighborhood to build accessible ramps for the playground?
Faces of evil, according to some people who really should get out of their caves once in a while. Indiana Congressman Bob Morris has since apologized for his venemous attack on the Girl Scouts, but his sincerity is dubious. He still refuses to join a resolution saluting 100 years of girl scouting. His source for his claim that the Girl Scouts have a radical agenda to undermine civilization? "A small amount of web-based research" -- now there's a screaming siren warning of the rapid spread of lies, rumors and vicious gossip.
Not to be outdone by Indiana Bob, a Catholic parish in Virginia has also banned the Girl Scouts. Washington Post Columnist Robert McCartney has written several articles exposing this ugly, nonsensical campaign against one of the largest organizations promoting the health and well-being of girls in the world.
What is it about Girl Power that makes some men quake in utter fear of a feminist conspiracy to obliterate the world as we once knew it? Frankly, some parts of that world deserve obliteration. like the parts where powerful men abuse children, where girls are trafficked for profit, where women are paid less than men for the same work, where women are not at the table for important legislative hearings on issues affecting them, where women who manage to rise to positions of influence and some power are routinely demonized.
But the Girl Scouts are all about much simpler things -- courage, self-confidence, leadership, learning to live a healthy life without letting Hollywood or the ad industry dictate body image. "Where girls grow strong" is a slogan often appearing in Girl Scout literature, and that phrase captures the purpose of all scouting activities to teach girls how to be resilient, creative, adventuresome and able to stand on their own two feet. Come to think of it, aren't those the qualities we expect in good mothers as well as effective corporate executives, strong public leaders and active citizens?
100 years ago, Juliette Gordon Low brought together 18 girls in Savannah, Georgia, because she believed that girls needed an organization of their own to encourage their healthy development, build leadership skills, and serve the community. Today, more than 3.2 million girls are active scouts, and more than 50 million American women proudly claim the Girl Scouts as among their most formative experiences. Ask any group of women leaders if they were Girl Scouts, and almost all will raise their hands.
In the last two decades, I have had the distinct honor of working with the Girl Scouts of the Nation's Capital on a wide range of their activities. Trinity partners with the Girl Scouts and offers college scholarships for scouts who come to Trinity.
One of my favorite opportunities to get to know today's Girl Scouts occurs through Camp CEO, an innovative program started in Washington, now operating in many places nationally. In Camp CEO, women executives spend several days (yes, including overnights in tents!) at a Girl Scout camp sharing their experiences with leadership and school and raising families in order to help girls think about their future pathways. Many of the participants now mentor girls they met in camp, providing internships and even job opportunities. The most radical discussion I ever heard at camp was whether a fourth scoop of ice cream (with crushed Thin Mints) could help us to sleep better on those &*&!!# cots or force an extra midnite trip to the %$#!! privy.
Some men seem to be having a lot to say about women and girls these days, and most of it is pretty ignorant. Whether it's a congressman denouncing the Girl Scouts for having a radical agenda, or a religious leader analogizing women's rights to a ham sandwich, or a presidential candidate questioning women in the workforce, the retrograde views of a relatively small group of highly influential men reveal the plain fact that women's fight for equal rights and fair treatment must continue.
As the leader of a university still primarily devoted to women's education, I often have to answer the question: Why a women's college? Why girl-serving organizations? Aren't we equal enough now to end these kinds of organizations?
No. The women's revolution is far from over. The current political discourse reminds us of the fragility of our gains in the last few decades. Let's remember that women are still alive who were born when women could not vote. Some men still regret the 19th Amendment.
When several hundred thousand Girl Scouts gather to "Rock the Mall" on June 9, 2012 as part of the 100th Anniversary celebration, we will sing the traditional Girl Scout songs about spiders' webs and brownie smiles and the Princess Pat (my favorite!) and friendship. As in previous sing-alongs, the day will be a mellow tribute to the real joys of scouting. We'll look at all of those thousands and thousands of young women and realize how amazing it is that so many can flourish in this healthy, truly happy work of girl scouting.
We'll celebrate the reality of girl power. And we will remain confident in this thought:
Girls rule!


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World Premiere of the "Uncommon" Radio Single Debuts
World Premiere of "Uncommon" Radio Single Debuts
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Friday, February 20 – 7:45am ET
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February 19, 2009 (Colorado Springs, CO) – Former Indianapolis Colts head football coach Tony Dungy's new book from Tyndale House Publishers titled, Uncommon: Finding Your Path to Significance, debuted on The New York Times Best Sellers List on Sunday, February 15, at the No. 2 spot on the hardcover "Advice, How-To, and Miscellaneous" list. Dungy's first book, Quiet Strength, spent more than 30 weeks on the list and has sold more than 1,000,000 copies.
With the release of Uncommon, Tyndale and multi-Dove Award nominee and sought-after songwriter Matthew West have written a theme song for the book which will be released to radio.
The song is titled "Uncommon" and is sung by Greg Long (Avalon) and Kristy Starling and produced by multi-Dove Award winner Don Koch (In Christ Alone, The Basics of Life). "I have followed the career of Coach Dungy since he was the defensive coordinator with the Steelers," said Greg Long. "I thank God for men like him who run after integrity in the name of Christ, and I am honored to be involved with a well-written song that helps communicate what he wants his life to be about."
Greg Long and Kristy Starling will perform the song "Uncommon" live as part of a life CCN Network telecast to over 1,000 churches at the Tony Dungy "Dare to Be Uncommon" conference on February 21 in Indianapolis. http://www.ccn.tv/dungy/
"In a world of non-believers, Tony's devotion to Christ has allowed him influence into the lives of people everywhere," said Kristy Starling. "It truly is captivating to watch what God is doing through him."
The "Uncommon" song will be featured for the first time on radio as a world premier on hundreds of stations across the U.S. exclusively over the KLOVE Radio Network. KLOVE morning hosts Jon and Sherry Rivers will speak live with Tony Dungy and Matthew West on Friday, February 20 at 7:45am Eastern Time and then the "Uncommon" song will debut. The "Uncommon" radio single will officially release to Christian radio through CRW Platinum Gold Radio Promotions and to secular radio through Westar Radio Promotions on Tuesday, February 24 along with a 1-hour radio special, story vignettes and PSAs. Click this link to preview all "Uncommon" audio.
Tony Dungy Bio
Tony Dungy Book Description
Dare to be Uncommon Conference
Win an Uncommon Time of Service with Tony Dungy Contest
Matthew West Website
Greg Long Website
Kristy Starling Website
CCN Network Website
KLOVE Website
KLOVE Radio Contest Promotion
KLOVE – Jon & Sherry Rivers
KLOVE – U.S. Station List


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Kim @ As The Pump Turns tagged me for the Bookworm award. Thanks!
There are a few rules to this...so...
Pass it on to five other bloggers, and tell them to open the nearest book to page 56. Write out the fifth sentence on that page, and also the next two to five sentences. The CLOSEST BOOK, NOT YOUR FAVORITE, OR MOST INTELLECTUAL!
So my book (the nearest, having-more-than-56-pages book) is How Girls Can Help Build Up The Empire (the original Girl Guide Handbook from 1912, a re-print)...
Pg 56 - "You will find all sorts of wonders by stalking birds and watching what they do - how they build their nests or feed their young ones, and which birds lay only white eggs because their nests are in the dark, like kingfishers, sand martins and owls."
Man they like their run on sentences! It has a huge chapter on hospital duties (it sounds a lot like Flo was helping them) and of course on first aid.
I feel the urge to tag...
Cellar Door @ Not Another Nursing Student Blog
cb @ Fighting Monsters
Julie @ Life in the NHS
Not Nurse Ratched
Nurse Ratched because she has some really interesting books... one of them must be near her computer
Monday, 17 November 2008
Bookworm (Meme 5)
Kim @ As The Pump Turns tagged me for the Bookworm award. Thanks!
2 comments:
- cellar_door said...
Arghh! I'm sat next to a bookshelf! This could be interesting... :0)
- 17 November 2008 at 23:25
- WardBunny said...
Thanks for taking part! I hate tagging people.
- 18 November 2008 at 18:21


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How to Maximize Bedroom Storage
Small apartments or homes often have limited storage space so it's really important to maximize the space that's actually available. One of the biggest challenges is the bedroom, especially if it's small. Two people sharing the room presents an even greater dilemma.
- Sort through the clothing or items that belong in the closet or cupboard and eliminate what you haven't used in the past few months. Do you really need that piece of clothing or pair of shoes?
- Purchase a closet organizer to replace the single pole that is typically installed in the space. There are so many styles and price ranges to choose from that you're sure to find just the right system for your purpose.
- Another idea for out of season clothing is to use vacuum sealed space bags. The downside to that is that you'll likely need to press everything when you remove the clothing from the bags!
Storage Space for Two
So there are two of you in the room? Been there, done that! As crowded as it can be for two people sharing a small space, there are DIY solutions.
- One of my favorite ideas is to use low chests of drawers as bedside tables. The tops are wide enough for a lamp, books and a glass of water and the drawers are perfect for clothing.
My husband had the tall dresser in the room and I used the two low chests with drawers that doubled as bedside nightstands. A great solution for a potential problem!
An ideal height is between 27″ and 30″ and the width can be whatever size will fit nicely on each side of the bed.
There's plenty of room in each drawer for clothing or accessories.
Here's another option from Dot & Bo.
Hagerstown Walnut 3-Drawer Dresser and TV Organizer: Dot & Bo
- Consider under-the-bed storage, as well. Use clear plastic containers with wheels to store whatever you need to access on a fairly regular basis.
They are ideal for shoes, for example. Because the bins are easy to roll out and can be opened from either end, it's easy to choose the shoes you want to wear, then slide the bin back underneath the bed. Perfect!
I think this makes sense regardless of the size of the room or the number of people sharing it! The key is to think outside the box!
Utilizing Vertical Spaces
Storage in a small room can be created vertically, as well.
- Use the backs of doors and walls as storage surfaces. This idea of attaching two towel bars to the back of the bathroom door is nothing short of brilliant. But the same principle can be applied in the bedroom. It would be perfect for hanging ties or scarves or even towels, for that matter, which frees up space in the bathroom. Especially if you only have one bathroom.
- Consider attaching hooks to the back of the door or to the bedroom walls in an organized manner. It's an attractive and functional solution.
I love these decorative hooks, too, for keeping jewelry in order. Every opportunity for being organized should be a priority in a small space.
These suggestions can be applied to just about any room. You'll be amazed at how simple it will be to keep everything in order once you actually have it in order!
See which of these ideas will work for you. You'll find that it's easier to stay organized once you get organized!
Your thoughts?
I'll be pleased to post photos of your small bedroom storage solutions so be sure to send them to me in the comments!


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Not sure how this post will unfold, but I feel like writing.
This month has been totally full on playing music, and it's been very, very satisfying. And I know it's not over, with my third solo coming up on Christmas Day.
I've been teaching and it's been fun, rewarding and exciting. I've been practising with my guru-cousin for the Christmas concert, and I've been loving it. And I've been jamming a lot recently, like never before. I used to feel envious of those music-playing hippie travellers, because I somehow would feel inadequate and not good enough - I have this tendency to believe any other musician is better than me. But recently I've been meeting the same really nice travelling folks, and I've been feeling pretty comfortable with them. It's very new. I don't know how not to sound nasty saying this but I usually have no interest in meeting travellers because I just can't be bothered making the effort of small talk if they're leaving soon. Even with other long-term non-Indian musicians I kind of feel different and uncomfortable, and I generally try to hang out with Indians. But. There's a big but: I can't deny my background - and my musical background - and it is also very nice to spend time with non-Indians, especially musicians. When it works out it's just wonderful to play non-Indian music once in a while because I don't have to care about raga rules or difficult cyclic rhythm, I can just play anything the way I feel it, the way it flows out of my body... And although for years I wasn't a musician, I have been listening to so much music of all kinds over the years that I do have some sort of musical intuition or perhaps maturity - I do surprise myself with the inspiration I have, which is precisely why I should jam with non-Indian musicians from time to time, for the fun of it, and in order not to always look higher than myself. Indeed when I just jam freely, I realise how much I've learnt from learning strict Indian classical music, how much it has made me capable of playing other types of music, and I feel profoundly grateful to my Guruji! That's when I realise that I have actually made massive progress and I have become very comfortable with my own instrument to just play whatever. My mind still has a faint memory of how uncomfortable I used to feel at the thought of playing in front of other people; today though I have to get used to a new me - a Vio known as a musician, a Vio known as a good violinist. Yes, people here know me for my violin, and wow, it still feels surreal sometimes. And people even say I'm talented; in fact I have recently been bombarded with positive feedback and compliments, and it such a wonderful dream come true that it sometimes brings shivers to my body and tears to my eyes.
And at those jams, when a French woman has brought her accordion I get totally overexcited with the novelty, the groove that it brings and the new inspiration that I get. There's also a Balkan oud player, a lovely folky guitar player from the USA, and last night I sat with a really nice, more middle-eastern/klezmer guitar player from Israel... And there's my new guru-bhai, a lovely Chilli-Brazilian multi-instrumentalist musician who's been learning Indian violin from Sukhdev for two months. He's learning Hindi and needs to practise it with someone so we're having great skill-exchange sessions in which I speak with him in Hindi and teach him bits of grammar, whist he gives me classes in western harmony and chord theory - something I've been wanting to learn for years to accompany western musicians better. I adore these sessions because my new teacher revives some old childhood memories about music theory which had been hidden in the deep corners of my mind for decades. We complement each other beautifully and I learn such great stuff that I'm excited like a little girl. Back to Hindustani violin, I've been playing ragas with a lovely girlfriend (my oldest friend in Varanasi actually) who plays slide-guitar, which has been greatly inspiring as well. So yeah, my days are filled with practising music alone and with many other lovely souls. Music from morning to evening, music without end, music til I collapse exhausted onto my bed at night for sleep, but it's so very inspiring and liberating and rewarding, and it has given me new energy and even entrancing moments of pure joy...
So yeah, I am finally coming to terms with my shyness and getting used to the new thought - fact? - that I am indeed accepted as a talented musician around here... ♥
A note on my three blogs
A note on my blogs
(1) vio; in love with india - this one is the main blog about my Indian adventures, which started in 2005. I don't write much on this blog these days because I prefer to write privately in the confidential blog. But check out the categories and the index to figure out your way. I have kept some older posts not about India but which I still find interesting or relevant in Old words. Also check out my new, fun category Only in India in which I post photos of funny, unique, Indian situations...
(2) vio; sounds of india - this is my blog of sounds, because India wouldn't be as incredible if it was not so vibrant and just so full of incredible sounds!
(3) vio; confidential - this an extension of my main blog in which I post entries I do not want to reveal to the entire webspace for privacy or sensitivity reasons. You must receive an invitation from me and then accept the invitation to be able to read it. You may email me if you are interested in receiving an invitation.
Thursday, 19 December 2013
Hungry for music & accepting my new musician identity...
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A few of my video and audio appearances. You can check out my webseries, "Carpooling With Rabbi," on a separate page.
I was the featured guest on the 25th episode of the podcast Olympia Pop Rocks:
A little Hasidic teaching (or is it magic?):
Here is video of me testifying before the Washington State House of Representatives on universal background checks on gun control:
Here is a joke, an invitation for my 40th birthday. The party is over, but you can still hear the joke:
I was on "The Impact" on TVW (Washington State's version of C-SPAN) in 2012 talking about my support for marriage equality.
And here is a short documentary from Not In Our Town when Neo-Nazis came to Olympia, WA in 2007:


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Since the last post, there have been quite a few sightings. A worn Great Crested Flycatcher was busy looking for food for its fledgling on Tuesday, July 25. The younger bird looks bright and alert with more white on its feather edges. Such fun to see this species nesting here.
A female Monarch was seen on Friday, July 28 laying eggs on the Marsh Milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa). I watched the butterfly work through the garden for about an hour and it finally took a break to nectar on freshly opened blossoms.
The next day, a female Blue Dasher took a rest on a spent Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea). How beautiful it was in the soft light as its coloring blended in with the spiky seed head.
On Sunday, July 30, a Painted Lady was busy nectaring in the garden, mainly on the coneflowers. It was my first opportunity to photograph this uncommon butterfly here.
As I followed the butterfly, I noticed a Tufted Titmouse flying down to the garden and briefly laying down, not dust-bathing but sun-bathing. Another Titmouse joined it, literally laying on top and giving it a hug! Isn't that interesting behavior?
They would pop up to a tree branch for a while and down to the garden again, only staying maybe 30 seconds. This went on for several minutes. One tried the bench but that just wasn't the same.
A Great Crested Flycatcher got in on the act and I also saw a Ruby-throated Hummingbird lay down for just a few seconds. Look closely as the flycatcher nestled in under the coneflowers near the basil. It had been very cool overnight at 60 degrees so perhaps they were indeed just soaking up a bit of warmth in anticipation of another cool night.
The cool weather brought in more Ruby-throated Hummingbirds and they have been chasing each other through the garden. The Cardinal flower is nestled in between patches of milkweed and coneflowers and not nearly as tall. The birds find its bright red blossoms nonetheless.
Today, one of the young hummingbirds had a chance to drink from a plant near the pond, much closer to where I was waiting. Fascinating to capture the pollen being deposited on its head as it thrust its bill into the blossom. See the tiny yellow grain of pollen falling away? Bird and plant are perfectly compatible.
A Coopers Hawk has been in the woods on several different days. It was perched near the Bubbler on Tuesday, August 1.
A Northern Flicker got in to get a good bath the next day when the hawk wasn't around.
It was Thursday, August 3. As often happens, I thought I saw the Painted Lady again and by the time I got the camera, I could not re-find it. I waited on the landing and the Carolina Wren started fussing up a storm. It circled around me and into the thicket. I went up to the deck to see what the problem might be and didn't see anything at first.
Then, the Coopers Hawk dropped in and stared down the wren. The wren moved on but by then, the birds had heard and heeded the alarm.
Before 7 a.m. on Friday morning, August 4, the twin fawns were in the woodland, grooming themselves. I guess that's where they had spent the night. Here is one of the fawns before they moved on.
A black female Tiger Swallowtail has been in the garden the last few days.
This afternoon, a male Monarch was very active on the Marsh Milkweed. It was only when I finished going through the images that I saw a tiny Monarch caterpillar in this photo, too! Can you find it? The caterpillars are able to eat every part of the plant to grow into a healthy butterfly. What a positive ending to the day!
Hint: Look in the cluster of buds on the far right for the tiny striped caterpillar. Eggs were laid on Friday, July 28 so the caterpillar is 10 days old.
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Great quote and something we should all be praying for, for God to keep us from error and be able to discern truth from error.
John Bunyan, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, 1.44 | "O Lord, I am a fool, and not able to know the truth from error. Lord, leave me not to my own blindness, either to approve of or condemn this doctrine; if it be of God, let me not despise it; if it be of the devil, let me not embrace it. Lord, I lay my soul in this matter only at Thy foot, let me not be deceived, I humbly beseech Thee."


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