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I hadn't intended to blog about the Zeitgeist Movement again but seeing their worldwide map of Z-Day events this morning impressed me enough to make me want to write about what's going on.
what the hell is Z-Day?
Z-Day is an annual event held in mid-March which serves a dual function as a kind of international assembly for Zeitgeist Movement members and a major recruitment drive.
Essentially this means that members all over the world are encouraged to organise their own local events which are then linked to the website. These local events usually take the form of film screenings with the addition of other features on an ad-hoc basis. In previous years a 'main event' has been held in New York, organised and attended by the group's founder Peter Joseph.
The main event for this year's Z-Day is going to be held in London, with a live webcast for those who are unable to attend (or unwilling to travel).
I mentioned in a previous post that the Zeitgeist Movement were quietly amassing a significant global following and that they are actively seeking to raise their public profile, so I suppose that the Z-Day map is a testament to their achievements thus far in this regard. Following on from their most recent documentary/manifesto film Zeitgeist: Moving Forward, which was released less than two months ago, it seems that this year the Zeitgeist Movement are aiming to make their most concerted push for attention yet.
the flip side?
Detractors have claimed that members of the Zeitgeist Movement display such cult-ish behaviours as circular beliefs (a belief system that references and reinforces itself), insisting that they alone see the truth and abusing anyone who disagrees. That certainly sounds like cultish behaviour (and part of me suspects that Jacques Fresco is being held up as something of a messiah figure for the group) but such evidence is purely anecdotal.
I personally haven't seen any ZGM members debating outside of the YouTube comments below the films and it is probably safe to say that such comments aren't likely to be representative of the membership as a whole. If they are indeed a cult then they are an atypical cult – one that doesn't demand money from its members or promote belief in any kind of supernatural/paranormal agents.
It is difficult to know where the Zeitgeist Movement goes from here. The documentaries are certainly popular on the web, but can such efforts to raise public consciousness ever really translate into meaningful action?
Is this really a unique movement for global change – the likes of which hasn't been seen before – or a pleasant but irrelevant side-show for idealists?
Are they an international vanguard or wanna-be Levellers?
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Passion persisted until the end, 35 years of emotional ties to a team andits memories that elevated the Baltimore Colts to a position of being a civicheirloom. It may never happen again because the business of football haschanged -- unions, agents, multimillion-dollar contracts for players, andlong-established franchises that have forsaken traditional values for a betterdeal elsewhere.
The Colts were revered and personalized. They gained an identity andpopularity that set them apart. Parents offered the supreme compliment bynaming new-born infants after the players. One child was called Colt Taylor --which meant he represented the whole team.
Individual fans sometimes took on special status, such as Willie "TheRooter" Andrews, Hurst "Loudy" Loudenslager and Leonard "Big Wheel" Burrier.They were among the notable spectators, a notch above all the rest becausethey became synonymous with the Colts and gained a measure of celebrity fromother faces in the crowd.
The Colts didn't always win championships but were exciting and providedBaltimore an investment in pride it desperately needed because the citypreviously had been regarded as a quiet little whistle stop between Washingtonand Philadelphia. The band played, the cheerleaders endeavored to get one sideof the stadium to holler louder than the other and a live colt mascot sprintedaround the field after every score. Having Colts spirit was known as being"Coltafide."
Once the Colts pounded the Los Angeles Rams, 56-21, and a weary linebackernamed Les Richter said, "That horse was off and running so often I thought Iwas at Santa Anita." The Baltimore football experience was like no other,except in Green Bay, where the priests on Sunday were known to ask thecongregation to join them in prayer -- for the Packers.
"I knew this was one great football city," said Art Donovan, "when afterthe team lost 18 games in a row [including preseason] that we finally won onein 1950 and a fullback named Jim Spavital was carried off the field. Youwoulda thought we had won the war or something."
The Colts were a sorry lot in their early years. In their late ones, too.They started in 1947, bankrolled by a group of Washington businessmen headedby a boyish Bob Rodenberg, the majority owner, who always believed in having agood time, and concluded their life span in 1984 amid the antics of Bob Irsay.
But in between they had a lineup of talented personnel and two thatespecially belonged to the Colts, the aptly named "Racehorse" Davis and the"Horse" Ameche. The Colts were the first team to have organized cheerleaders,long before the Dallas Cowboys were ever heard of, and the third club to wearits logo on the helmet.
Of more importance, they became the pioneer in breaking down the walls ofracial bias and allowing blacks to play in Baltimore, at that time considereda city with stern Southern traditions. The first to eradicate the color linewas an end, Art Fletcher, in 1950, and then in 1953, Buddy Young was the firstblack in the NFL to have a white roommate, Zollie Toth. He thought so much ofToth he named a son after him -- the epitome of respect.
The Colts were a unifying force for Baltimore in many ways. Something tocling to on Sunday afternoons. Churches and synagogues didn't dare schedule asocial activity, such as a club meeting or an oyster roast, without consultingthe Colts' home schedule. A conflict with a game was tantamount to having anempty hall.
"I don't know if Baltimore will ever again capture the wild enthusiasm ourteams enjoyed," said John Unitas. "The important thing is for the fans now toenjoy themselves. The NFL damaged Baltimore when it let the Colts go toIndianapolis. I remember when I was a rookie and came to Baltimore to play inthe 1956 intrasquad game. There were 48,000 in the stands. I couldn't believeit."
Unitas lent much to the Colts' persona, a kid rejected by his hometownteam, the Pittsburgh Steelers, who was signed to a $7,000 contract (no bonus)in Baltimore, and when he got the opportunity proved he had enormous ability.America quickly became interested in Unitas and what he represented -- alittle-known player who wouldn't take no for an answer because all he wantedwas a chance to show what he could do.
And then there was this unusual end named Raymond Berry, the son of a highschool football coach in Paris, Texas, who had one leg shorter than the other,wore a corset for an ailing back, had sunglasses attached to his helmet andsqueezed Silly Putty to strengthen his hands for pass catching. Of moresignificance was the type man he was -- humble, sincere and a leader by thegoodness of his example.
When the Cambridge riots erupted in 1964 and the Maryland National Guardhad to go in on a stand-by basis to control the trouble, it was a decision byGen. Hugh Gelston to name Berry as liaison between the white and blackcommunities. He spent the entire off-season there, monitoring the situation,but wouldn't accept any pay for fulfilling the responsibility.
"If they were going to pay me, then I wasn't interested," he said. "Iwanted to do something I felt was pleasing to God, and getting a salary wasn'twhat I had in mind. My role was to try to create understanding between thoseinvolved in controversy among the blacks and whites. It was no big deal frommy standpoint, which is why I never liked to talk about it."
The Colts were a dedicated group. They qualified 12 of their alumni forenshrinement in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, an illustrious list thatincludes Donovan, Unitas, Berry, Jim Parker, Lenny Moore, Gino Marchetti, John Mackey, Ted Hendricks, Y. A. Tittle, Joe Perry, George Blanda and coach Wilbur"Weeb" Ewbank. And then there's Don Shula, who will be the next ex-Colt boundfor the Hall of Fame.
The players built their own popularity in a community that embraced themand became your good neighbor. "Playing for the Colts was something special,"Moore said. "We were good for the city and the city was good for us. But Ihave always believed that it was difficult for the players who followed ourchampionship teams. It was unfair to compare them to what we had accomplished.In the mid-1970s, with players like Lydell Mitchell, Bert Jones and JoeEhrmann, the team was outstanding but didn't get the credit it deserved."
There was the invariable reference to 1958, a momentous year in Baltimore,when the Colts won the first sudden-death championship the NFL ever played. Itwas an occasion that brought wide attention to pro football, yes, but, by nomeans, can it be acclaimed as the game that "made" the NFL. The league wasmaking progress before that gray, historic afternoon at Yankee Stadium, soit's unrealistic to attribute league-wide success to what the Colts achievedin beating the Giants.
"I can tell you that some of the great moments of my young life wereenjoyed in Baltimore," said Eddie King. "I knew Baltimore was headed foroutstanding achievements because of the spirit of the city and I went thereoften to see the Colts play after I got involved in other things." Ex-ColtKing, of course, became governor of Massachusetts, the only player the NFLever produced to gain so high an office. Another former Colt, Jack Mildren,ran for governor of Oklahoma but came up short in the popular vote. So Coltsplayers have made their marks in high-profile endeavors. Football wasn't adead-end street.
"The game now is more sophisticated," said Jim Mutscheller. "Had it notbeen for the Colts I never would have gotten to Baltimore. My home was BeaverFalls, Pa., and I married Pert Ederer from La Jolla, Calif. When we came herein 1955, we had no idea we would find Baltimore so hospitable and such anenjoyable place to live."
For another perspective of how it was to be a Colt in Baltimore, OrdellBraase explains, "The city was a positive place to be. The NFL was makingstrides, gaining attention, and we were an important part of it. My sons wentto games and now they want their own children to experience the sameenthusiasm."
World championships came to Baltimore in 1958 and 1959, the only titlegame played in Memorial Stadium, and a Super Bowl in 1971. From the aspect ofmaking an impact, the 1969 loss to the New York Jets in Super Bowl III, afterthe Colts were installed as a 16 1/2 -point favorite, is looked upon as one ofthe most extraordinary upsets in the 77-year history of the NFL.
So, even in disappointing defeat, the Colts of Baltimore left a mark. Theywere on the losing side in a game that elevated the Super Bowl, when it wasstruggling to be accepted, to a position of sudden -- and then lasting --importance.
Apart from the wins and losses, they enjoyed a relationship with a citythat few teams ever fostered. They'll be remembered with fondness -- not onlyfor the talent exhibited but more so for the kind of men they were and whatthey gave to a community that made the Baltimore Colts more than just anotherfootball team playing for a paycheck.


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The Cincinnati Bengals held serve with an ugly 34-13 win over the Philadelphia Eagles on Thursday night. That's not good news for the playoff chances of the Pittsburgh Steelers and New York Jets, but it's hardly devastating.
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The winner of next week's Bengals-Steelers game in Pittsburgh will have the big edge for the AFC's No. 6 playoff seed. That was true before Thursday night, and this result doesn't change the playoff picture that much.
The Steelers' margin for error has decreased, though. If Pittsburgh loses to the Dallas Cowboys this week, the Bengals will have a chance to knock the Steelers out of the playoff mix next week.
We read from a few panicky Jets fans on Twitter that their team now is out of the playoff race. That's not true. They still could get in at 9-7 with some help from the Bengals and others. It's a long shot, but it's been a long shot ever since Darrelle Revis got hurt.
Statement Sunday can't come soon enough.
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My sources are telling me that the Knicks struggled on offense tonight (if you don't know the joke, check this hilarity out). But seriously, that game was brutal. Coming into the game, Indiana has been the best defense in basketball and played as such tonight. Carmelo Anthony was suspended because of the whole "Honey Nut Cheerios" situation. Add Raymond Felton's injury into the equation and the Knicks offense was hapless tonight. New York hoisted up 20 three pointers, but only got 4 to go. They shot just 42% in the paint and 34% overall for the game. Want to see some blood? Check out the Knicks shot chart:
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- Lets start with Amar'e. I have previously been of the belief that Stoudemire's problems last season correlated to injuries, rather than an overall regression of his game. I'm not ready to jump off that position after five games, but his play has made it quite difficult for me to continue to defend him. Rather, he's been getting on my nerves because he has been quite terrible. Defensively, he has looked just as bad, if not worse than before, and his offense has yet to get on track. In fairness to him, Raymond Felton has yet to share the court with STAT this season and that could help. But the Knicks don't have time to wait for Stoudemire to get right. While there was/is a position of need for him off the pine, Stoudemire is a luxury for the Knicks. I wouldn't say the Knicks are 2-3 in the last five games because of Stoudemire, but he certainly hasn't helped things. Tonight, as has been the case this season, Stoudemire gave solid effort, but was largely ineffective. Defensively, he got pushed around by David West and Tyler Hansbrough. Offensively, I thought he was awful. Two garbage time baskets made his subpar stat line look a little less subpar. Take away the two garbage time buckets and you get 2/9 shooting with 8 boards in about twenty minutes, discounting the final two minutes of the game. Stoudemire is not nearly good enough defensively to be a positive impact in a game he shoots 2/9 in. He was not at all a positive impact tonight and you'd be hard pressed to find reasons why he should be any better against Chicago tomorrow night.
- Ronnie Brewer played a grand total of 8 minutes tonight. I think that was a very good decision by Mike Woodson as Brewer really would've had no positive impact in tonight's grinder of a basketball game. New York needed offense tonight and Brewer gives them 0 of that.
- JR Smith was 10/29, but it wasn't a bad 10/29. Let me explain. When playing in the flow of the offense, Smith played pretty well tonight. He had a solid first half that included a thunderous dunk that made me choke on my sunflower seeds. In the second half, Mike Woodson's offensive sets broke down pretty much every possession and forced JR to throw up a plethora of bad shots late in the shot clock. I thought Smith played hard and played pretty well, but that won't reflect in the box score. His ridiculous amount of shot attempts came from bad team offense, not selfish individual play.
- That Paul George is something else. He's one of the best off-ball offensive players in the league and he's a menace on defense. I'll just leave this here:
- After the game, news broke that Marcus Camby's foot is once again injured. If Camby misses time, I hope we see a return of Melo at the 4 spot, as opposed to Kurt Thomas or Chris Copeland rearing their less effective heads into that 4 spot.
- I hate the mantra "live by the three, die by the three". If you look at the teams that have won championships recently, most notably Dallas and Miami, they are teams that shoot a ton of threes. So the idea that the Knicks shooting a lot of threes will eventually doom them is flawed logic, in my opinion. However, as is true with any team that has a bad shooting game, the Knicks likely won't win many games where they don't shoot well. They shot just 3/20 from downtown tonight and as a result scored only 74 points.
- Tyson played a good game, but lets his anger get the best of him and picked up yet another technical foul. Mike Woodson is doing a very poor job of holding the team accountable when it comes to bitching to the officials and picking up technical fouls. Make no mistake, this is a big problem and it needs to be ironed out before the playoffs roll around. The Knicks can't be losing their composure and giving opponents an additional 2-3 points on technicals every time an official blows a call.
The Knicks play Chicago tomorrow night. The Bulls have beaten the Knicks twice in two games, but Carmelo Anthony will return with a clear head and fresher legs (hopefully). Have a good night, everyone!
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ORANGEBURG, S.C. – The Coker Cobra baseball team split its non-conference double-header with the Claflin Panthers on Tuesday (Mar. 11) afternoon. Claflin picked up the win in game one, 6-5, but the Cobras stormed back with a 28-0 rout in game two. Coker is now 12-8 on the year.
In game one the Navy and Yellow jumped out to an early 5-2 lead heading into the bottom of the fifth inning. The Panthers proceeded to score four unanswered runs over the final three innings to take home the 6-5 victory.
Forrest Arnold (2-1) took the loss for the Cobras. He allowed three runs and five hits with a strikeout in an inning in the mound.
At the plate Jack Leech went 1-for-3 with a home run and an RBI, while T.J. Giczkowski and Ernie Kirkwood had two hits and an RBI each. Tyler Bires also drove in a run for Coker on a double.
During the second game of the day the Coker offense exploded for 28 runs on 19 hits in seven innings. Coker scored 13 runs in the first inning, four in the second and third innings, three runs in the fourth and another four in the fifth.
Adam Webb (2-0) earned the win on the hill. He held the Panthers scoreless in three innings of work, allowing just two hits with a strikeout.
Six different Cobras drove in three or more runs. Fico Kondla and Will Winslow drove in five runs each, while Evan Rybicki drove in four runs on a grand slam. Giczkowski was 5-for-5 with a homer and four RIBs, Kirkwood drove in three runs on three hits and Brandon Dyer was 2-for-4 with three RBIs.
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Here it is – only 18g but it'll last:
Do you use SPF around the eye area? I can't decide if it irritates my skin or not. I have a Shiseido eye cream which has a SPF of 25 which is pretty good though.
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You can totally use this anywhere on your face as a highlighter. Its a pale white-pink with some pearl in it – I reckon it could be used on most skintones although it may look chalky on very dark skin, but then it could work well as a highlight for under the brow etc.
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In terms of hydration – forget it. Once again if there was some hydration that would be great – but no it doesn't do anything.
Super clever idea and great for holidays and you can use it elsewhere too.
Personally too much hassle for every day for me and I don't like the texture or the colour. Fussy, moi? Still, where else are you gonna find a SPF50 eye stick!??!
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The consumption indicator calculated by UBS on a monthly basis rose slightly for the second time in a row in December, a signal that solid growth in real private consumption is going to continue.
The UBS Consumption Indicator climbed to -0.62 in December, from a November level of -0.69 and an interim low of -0.92. This signals continued solid growth in real Swiss consumer spending, which has been gaining momentum since the beginning of 2005 and was even up 2.1% year-on-year in the third quarter. The latest rise in the UBS Consumption Indicator, which is made up of five sub-indicators, can be attributed to the continuing uptrend in new car registrations and the increase in the number of hotel overnight stays by domestic guests in Switzerland. The consumer sentiment index, which is also factored in, remained stuck at the level of the previous quarter. The KOF/ETH business sentiment index for the retail trade (our own estimates had to be used here due to a lack of data at present) and monthly credit card purchases via UBS at points of sale in Switzerland are also included in calculating the UBS Consumption Indicator.
Prospects for the Swiss economy are therefore still bright at the beginning of 2006. UBS economists expect broad-based economic growth to continue. While the export sector in particular is likely to remain a major driver, the ongoing firming of private consumption and a significant surge in equipment spending should also make large contributions to this trend. With this in mind, the Swiss National Bank is likely to stick to its tighter monetary course for the time being. UBS economists anticipate a further rate hike in March.
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The past couple of days have been great ones for genea-coincidences and genea-connections. First, Barbara Poole of Life from the Roots notified me via Facebook yesterday that she had found a blog with a Greenville connection and saw that I was not listed among the followers. It turned out that this was Southwest Arkie's new genealogy blog, which I had not found (I had really been missing SW Arkie's old blog, which I thought had gone dormant). Barbara is a real Genea-Angel! And now I know of another Genea-Blogger with a Greenville connection.
Today I got a Facebook note from Terri Kallio of The Ties That Bind, who is researching the Curtice family. A search brought her to my blog - Bettie Curtice Rosser was a close friend of Julia Mister Lewis, the wife of my great-great uncle, William Henry Lewis. Bettie Rosser's grandson was the genea-angel who sent me letters and pictures of Henry and Julia Lewis as well as some family pictures of the Curtices and Rossers. Terri and I are now exchanging information on connections and photographs.
This is why I love being a Genea-Blogger; it's some of the best legal fun you can have!
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Talk about coincidences! This week I heard from someone connected to the Nebraska Curtice family (inlaws of inlaws - no blood relation to me) and a family named Risser, not Rosser.ReplyDelete
Any chance these are your kin, too, Greta?
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Fun week! Enjoy!
Thanks Greta for the mention, although I don't know about the angel part. Sweet of you.ReplyDelete
Susan - I am not connected to the Curtices, but my great-great-uncle's wife was a close friend of Bettie Curtice and after Bettie's death she and the gg-uncle helped to raise Bettie's children. And that coincidence is really strange!ReplyDelete
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As the world's second most important honey producer after China, the European Union (EU) offers a variety of apiculture products not just honey, but also pollen, propolis, royal jelly and beeswax. However, the EU is also a net importer of honey from third countries.
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The Sexual Assault/Domestic Violence Center is hoping to raise awareness during October to prevent cases of violence in Marion County. Several candlelight vigils will be held throughout the county.
"We are hoping to bring awareness to domestic violence happening in the community and let people who may have been or are victims we are there for them," said Teresa Loffer, Marion County victim advocate.
Two vigils will be held, one at 5:20 p.m. Oct. 7 at Marion Central Park gazebo, the second at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 15 at the Scout House in Hillsboro.
"We want people to be aware so we can all work together to address this problem in the county," Loffer said.
Last year Marion County had 48 reported cases of domestic abuse and 29 arrests. The city of Marion had 12 reported cases in 2012.
"For every one case reported, there's 10 more that aren't," Loffer said. "It's hard for people to report because the abuser is usually someone they love. They need to know there are people out there who can get them the help they need."
According to center director Candace Anderson, rural communities can be hit harder by domestic violence because of their isolation. She hopes to educate people on how to recognize cases of domestic abuse, and what steps to take to prevent it. Anderson says most victims and abusers are between ages 18 and 35.
"Domestic abuse is everywhere," she said. "Everyone knows someone who is affected and needs help. Sometimes it is hard to do. Victims do not want their abuser to know they are getting help because it can cause greater violence. I try to encourage people to reach out to us in a safe and discreet manner, so we can offer the assistance they need to get them out of the bad situation."
On Oct. 17, the center will have a law-enforcement training session for all county departments in Hillsboro.
Marion County Sherriff Robert Craft said he sees domestic violence cases more than he would like to, but does not believe domestic violence to be a resounding problem throughout the county.
"I can't say it's a problem in the county, more than other things but it does occur, but not daily," he said. "I wish it didn't happen, but it does."
Craft said officers are required to take certain steps when dealing with domestic violence cases, and any case involving battery will also end with an arrest.
People can learn more about domestic violence and receive training from the center.
"We would like to see anyone who has a position where they deal with the public to have training on how to spot domestic violence that may be happening at home," Loffer said. "This is the most important way for us to combat the problem, because so much goes unreported."
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I fail to see why this article bears any great current relevancy. Whilst the future of User Interfaces may lie in 3D transforms – unfortunately not many of my friends (after all this is 24 ways to impress your friends) have Safari (either iOS or desktop).
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"Yo Sumo." The Spanish phrase, which in English translates to "I count," forms the basis of PepsiCo's current campaign addressing Hispanic Americans. The campaign hopes to spur Hispanic consumers not only to participate in the 2010 Census, but to make their citizenship "count" to the fullest extent. Instead of just filling out the form and being included in the census tally, "Yo Sumo" urges them to discuss their experiences and influence on the American nation via Pepsi's interactive website, http://www.pepsiyosumo.com/. Popular Hispanic actress Eva Longoria Parker is slated to collaborate with Pepsi to film a documentary based on anecdotes posted to the site. The "Yo Sumo" website has already caught on within America's Hispanic community, and many fans of the initiative have purchased official "Yo Sumo" custom t-shirts (pictured above). Lots of "Yo Sumo" supporters proudly wear their logo apparel in profile pictures on social networking sites to communicate their excitement to friends and family!
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The Carver High girls cross country team is gearing up for another league championship this fall. But it will be a tougher assignment for the Crusaders, who have captured the South Shore League Small Division crown the past two years.
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"We must compete against Norwell and East Bridgewater," Head Coach Stacy Waitner said. "We definitely have a shot. We were competitive against Norwell last season, and they lost their top runner, while we have everybody back. East Bridgewater will be really hard, probably the hardest meet of the season. They have a lot more depth than we do."
The Crusaders return their top five runners from last season's 6-2 team, including four league all-stars. All seniors, they are virtually interchangeable as to who runs No. 1 and who is at No. 4.
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Zack Goodman is not your typical 12-year-old. He just organized the third pro-life march held in the Diocese of Colorado Springs, Colo., an event he initiated in 2009 as a 10-year-old.
Zack is no less than a pro-life powerhouse.
After his dad Phill Goodman's assignment in the U.S. military brought the family to Colorado Springs, Zack and his mom, Christina Huschak, were watching the March for Life and the Walk for Life West Coast on EWTN. He thought it would be great to go in person. When his mother said it was too far and it was too bad they didn't have anything in the area, Zack took only a moment to think about it.
As he describes it, "I came back 30 seconds later and said, 'Well, I have to start something here.'"
Talk about initiative. Zack designed a pro-life logo, worked up a presentation for Colorado Springs Bishop Michael Sheridan, and e-mailed Walk for Life West Coast founder Dolores Meehan for advice on how to start a march in Colorado Springs.
He also started working under the diocese's Respect Life director, Father Bill Carmody.
Zack basically talked about Martin Luther King Jr. and civil rights "and equated abortion as the basic civil-rights issue of the day," remembers Father Carmody. "That's outstanding. He gets it. I've been in the work 20 years but never made the concrete connection."
The first year Zack invited Alveda King, Martin Luther King's niece, to speak. She couldn't attend because of a prior commitment, but she sent a videotaped message to play at the event. To continue the civil-rights connection, for each of the three years now, this march has been scheduled for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Father Carmody calls the timing providential. "This was Zack's idea, his vision," he says. "He gets all the credit."
With Father Carmody's direction, Zack presented his vision to various diocesan committees and organizations like the Knights of Columbus and Serra Club. Then he launched Youth 4 Truth, an ecumenical youth group getting young people active in pro-life activities by helping with the march and organizing the youth rally held on the day before the march.
That first year, at age 10, Zack wrote a pro-life play titled "God Is Calling. Are You Answering?" It was performed several times, including for the Catholic Daughters state convention.
This year, at his invitation, following the Holy Hour of Eucharistic adoration that started the day's events, bishops from all three Colorado dioceses concelebrated the March's Mass at St. Mary's Cathedral: Colorado Springs Bishop Michael Sheridan, who has attended every march, Denver Auxiliary Bishop James Conley, who was at last year's event, and Pueblo Bishop Fernando Isern.
Hundreds more joined the march to the city's Acacia Park for the outdoor rally with speakers headed by Pastor Walter Hoye II, founder and president of the Issues4Life Foundation in California. Then everyone marched to the old Planned Parenthood facility for prayers.
Home-schooler Zack is tireless in his pro-life work. After this Mass and at his parish, he distributes "Precious Feet" pins. He gets plenty of help giving them out for what he calls the "Precious Feet Challenge" from the Squires, the Knights of Columbus order for youth, who also led the march. Zack keeps the "Precious Feet Challenge" going well beyond the march. This year, 2,000 pins were distributed to approximately 10 churches, including a Protestant church.
In fact, Zach is not only a member of the Squires, but has achieved the program's highest rank, Squire of the Body of Christ. Only 26 members worldwide have achieved this distinction, according to the Knights of Columbus. He is the youngest Squire ever to earn this honor.
He and the Squires also hosted a pro-life contest for the diocesan elementary and high schools and home-school students as well.
He credits Father Carmody with the "I Survived Roe v. Wade" T-shirts that were distributed to everyone at the rally under 38 years old.
"It basically shows [that] everyone under 38 literally did survive after Roe v. Wade was passed," Zack says, adding extra emphasis: "Wow! I really did survive." Plans called for 1,000 shirts to be handed out at this year's march.
Father Carmody says it's powerful to see all the youth wearing these shirts.
"They get it," he says. "They understand it. By the grace of God, they survived. They had a 1-in-3 chance of making it. They recognize one-third of their generation is gone, and I find them truly on fire for life."
Results from the marches speak for themselves. "I've seen a lot more young people do a lot more pro-life things in their churches," Zack relates. "We have a walk for life for a local pregnancy center, and one 10-year-old girl went out and collected $500 for the pregnancy center because she couldn't let the babies die."
Zack sees the Precious Feet pins making a difference too. People are "getting it," he says.
The Youth 4 Life are working together on the Life Chain, where they display fetal-development posters from conception to birth.
Zack's original plan calls for the march to be regional, not just local.
"He wants to do something for the Mountains area," says Father Carmody of Zack's vision. "We're getting people from Pueblo now. We'll keep it growing. His vision is awesome."
Denver's Auxiliary Bishop James Conley met Zack after the young march organizer invited him to participate. He sees Zack as remarkable.
"He emceed the whole event. He very articulately introduced each one of the speakers," Bishop Conley says. "You can tell he has a great passion for life. When he invites people to come to speak, he commands a lot of authority for a little guy. … It's a great tribute to the parents to have children like this involved."
In fact, Zack says he and his mother made up his motto for the march, related to the song "This Little Light of Mine."
"If we all let our little light shine, we can set the world on fire," says Zack. "Basically, you can sum up me and what I've done in that. In the pro-life movement, if we all do something small, like giving out Precious Feet pins, we'll light the world on fire with God's fire of love and truth."
Register staff writer Joseph Pronechen is based in Trumbull, Connecticut.


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If you think conservatism's war on America's working- and middle-classes is only happening in Wisconsin and a few other states, you're wrong. If you think that it's only a war against public employees, you're more wrong than you know.
Dan Rather recently filed a story about a class action lawsuit against Walmart that will go to the Supreme Court later this month. The court's ruling could seriously affect American workers and consumers: a decision in Walmart's favor could strip from private-sector workers their last effective tool for seeking justice in the workplace.
The case is Dukes v. Walmart, filed by 61-year-old Betty Dukes, who claims that Walmart discriminated against her on the basis of her gender.
Rather notes, the Supreme Court won't be deciding the merits of the case. Duke's case is now a class action lawsuit on behalf of an estimated 1 million current and former female Walmart employees — the largest gender discrimination lawsuit in American history. Walmart argues that it is, as Rather puts it, "Too Big To Sue."
But the Supreme Court will not be deciding the merits of their discrimination case. What's at stake is the very definition of what a class action can be. And that has everyone from the captains of big business, to the leaders of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, to civil rights lawyers very interested in the outcome.
Walmart's argument is that lawsuit shouldn't be allowed because a class action that covers so many women, working in different stores, in different states, in different jobs, is just too broad. Lawyers who support the company add that if there is discrimination at a particular store then the women who worked there could come together for a much smaller class action suit.
But lawyers supporting the women say that the only way to fight a corporate giant like Walmart is through strength in numbers. And the reason why the lawsuit includes so many individuals is because Walmart is so big and so many women say they've been denied opportunities just because of their sex. They say that if the case isn't allowed to proceed, the Supreme Court will be establishing that some businesses are too big to sue.
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Beyond making some corporations "Too Big To Sue," a ruling for Walmart could make workers like Betty Dukes "Too Small To Matter."
Walmart, like many private sector employers, is nonunion, and the company is famously anti-union. The nation's largest private employer (PDF) has resorted to "legal but heavy-handed" tactics in response to efforts to organize employees, including "a rapid-response team to prevent organization, a hot line for store managers and tips on staying 'union free'," and even closing stores to prevent employee organizing. The National Labor Relations Board charged Walmart with illegal activity, by "by coercing, intimidating and retaliating against its employees who were seeking a voice on the job" through an employee union.
As a result — like most non-unionized private sector workers, and now also public sector workers in Wisconsin — Walmart employees can't bargain collectively for better working conditions or living wages. Instead, they have to deal with the company on an individual basis., as Dukes did when she sat down with Walmart, her "negotiations" with the Walmart.
The quest began six years after Mrs Dukes took a $5-an-hour job on the Walmart tills in 1994. She said that she had planned to work hard and advance through the company until she reached management. By 1999 that prospect had been destroyed. A dispute with managers over her chances of advancement ended in a humiliating demotion and pay cut, she said. A lawyer told her that she was not alone in claiming that she had encountered discrimination, and in 2001 the lawsuit was filed in San Francisco. The part-time preacher still works at Walmart, and lives with her mother because, she says, she cannot afford a home of her own on her $15.23 (£9.98) an hour salary. "There are times that I can't afford my lunch," she said, wrapping her chicken nuggets in a napkin for later. "But I'm still blessed."
The global retailer denies accusations of inequality and argues that if there are any instances of discrimination they are isolated, and not a company-wide problem. Walmart says any such cases should be handled as individual lawsuits, not as a class action.
The lawyer who told Dukes that she wasn't alone was both right and wrong.
When she took her case to Walmart management, she was utterly alone. There was no union representative to advocate for her. There was no union strength behind her, either. In other words, there was no leverage on her side.
In another sense, Dukes was not alone. As she herself put it, casting her dispute with Walmart as a "David v. Goliath" conflict, Duke said "David had five stones, but only needed one." And the one stone wasn't merely her ability to sue Walmart, but to join her voice with others in a case that — for Walmart — would be "Too Big To Ignore." Without that, Dukes' case wouldn't have gotten much further than her meeting with Walmart management.
You Can't Beat 'Em
"If you can't beat 'em, 'sue 'em," the saying goes. Without collective bargaining, the courts are often the last, best chance for private-sector workers to seek justice in dealing with corporate giants like Walmart. If the Supreme Court agrees with Walmart, that saying will be edited and revised to "You can't beat 'em."
The most effective way to seek justice against corporations like Walmart is for individual workers (and consumers) to unite in defense of their common interests. Hence, Walmart, wants cases such as Dukes' handled on an individual basis. But the individual has no leverage with large corporate entities. Instead, the individual stands alone against the deep pockets of the corporation.
Even the ability to bring class action suits against large companies is no guarantee of success for the plaintiffs. The case of Alaskan fishermen whose livelihoods were devastated by the 1988 Exxon Valdez oil spill, illustrates this. Brian O'Neill, the attorney who handled the case, pro bono, on behalf of 2,600 hundred fishermen said the case took two decades to wind through the courts because Exxon used its considerable resources to drag the case out.
CNN: Did anything surprise you once you started representing the fishermen and taking on Exxon after the Valdez spill?
O'Neill: I thought that — like a lot of people think now with regard to BP — that Exxon would want to settle the case relatively early and move on and I was surprised a number of times with the fact that this was World War III to them, and they dealt with it that way …
They spent over $400 million on lawyers, essentially defending [against] our claims. They took every appeal they could take and they took every delay they could take and filed every motion they could take.
Don't kid yourself: the oil companies have the best lawyers money can buy.
CNN: You mentioned the legal system would be one of their biggest problems: can you elaborate on that?
O'Neill: Well if a company is rich enough and powerful enough to hire hundreds of lawyers they can essentially bring the legal system to a halt. They can.
Most of these fishermen no longer believe that the court system of the United States provides equal justice. They've come to a conclusion that is the same as the conclusion that I've come to, and that is that our governmental institutions will always bail out big oil, and they did here.
In the end, the Supreme court cut the amount Exxon would have to pay to fisherman for damages from the spill down to a fraction of the original amount.
Likewise, without collective bargaining the individual employee pits the individual against an employer with far greater options and resources, equaling far greater leverage. Besides having deeper pockets, employers can use economic conditions as leverage against individual employees. The economic desperation and high unemployment created by the current economic crisis, and perpetuated by conservative politics, means employers have a large and growing supply of people desperate enough to work for lower wages and under worse conditions than individual employees petitioning for better wages and conditions.
Disarming David
For the individual without the power of a union or collective bargaining behind her, that means employers have leverage to negotiate wages and working conditions even lower. And if the employee doesn't like it? Well, good luck finding better elsewhere.
It's like pitting David against Goliath, but disarming David first by taking away his slingshot.
That doesn't mean individuals can't have an impact. An individual can spark a movement by standing up for himself or herself. It happened in Tunisia, when Mohamed Bouazizi's protest sparked a revolution. It's happened in this country before. In 1955 Rosa Parks sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, often cited as the start of the modern civil rights movement. According to legend, the 1969 Stonewall riots that launched the modern gay rights movement began with an unnamed woman resisted a police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a New York City gay bar, shouting "Why don't you guys do something?" to bystanders waiting to be rounded up. That spark ignited resistance that night, and a movement that's continued since.
Individuals can spark movements, but it takes people working collectively, conscious of their common interests, to create far-reaching, long-lasting change. That kind of change happens when we are inspired to stand up not just for ourselves, but to stand up for and stand with each other.
That's what's under attack in Wisconsin and beyond. Every attempt to extinguish both those individual sparks and the movements they ignite, seeks to pit us against each other, so that we don't see ourselves or our plights in those of workers in Wisconsin or Walmart employees like Dukes. We become competitors instead of a community. The goal is to keep so busy fighting over table scraps instead, so that we don't notice the table we're fighting under or the banquet above.


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I've been interested in things such as yoga and meditation ever since I took a stress management class in college. (I tend to be wound rather tightly at times!) For years, I used writing as my primary practice when I was looking to do something meditative, but I always had some kind of craft project sitting around, too-knitting, crochet, jewelry making, or handmade papers and books.
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Learning how to do peyote stitch was really the first time I recognized the connection between beadweaving and meditation. As I started each new piece of peyote stitch, I repeated a little mantra in my head: "String one, skip one, pass through this one." And it worked! I still find myself repeating that little phrase when I start a piece of peyote stitch, and I have other little sayings that I use for right-angle weave, herringbone stitch, and square stitch. They remind me of the little mantras we chant at the end of yoga class when we're all feeling refreshed and relaxed.
Beadweaving also has a transformative quality to it that just seems like magic to me. It's like spinning straw into gold when you take a pile of seed beads and some beading thread and turn them into a stunning piece of beaded jewelry. So now I'm relaxed and happy, AND I have a knockout piece of jewelry to show off!
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