admin July 25, 2007 at 1:09 pm
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By Ray Korona www.raykorona.com
“Power to the Peaceful” are the words emblazoned on a t-shirt worn by SuZen, who with Barry Gruber, is a co-organizer of the annual event in NYC known as Universal Peace Day (UPD). It takes place on August 5 each year, the anniversary of the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima, Japan. [...]
jmatthae July 23, 2007 at 12:18 pm
# One CommentSICKO AND THE TRANSFORMATIVE MOMENT by Julie Matthaei, July 23, 2007
I saw Michael Moore’s latest documentary,“Sicko,” on Saturday night. The movie opens with a man sewing up his own wound, because of his inability to pay for a doctor. [...]
Germai Medhanie July 23, 2007 at 10:51 am
# No Comment YetAround Christmas time 1979, I had my first job in the United States. I was happy to have a job but it was also the most depressing time in my life. When I had flown in from Khartoum, Sudan, on July 26th, I had been dreaming about the freedom and fun I would have in [...]
Jenna Allard July 20, 2007 at 5:04 pm
# 2 CommentsAs a recent college-graduate, making a somewhat abrupt transition to the working world (albeit the rather cushy feel good world of the non-profit working world) and to the supposed beginning of “the rest of my life”, these past few weeks have been filled with overwhelmingly large purchases. I have just ended an apartment search, am [...]
Germai Medhanie July 20, 2007 at 3:42 pm
# One CommentThis is a story about finding my voice as an immigrant writer. To write this story, I have to expose my problems with writing. Of course, this is hard because we are not taught to admit our weakness. But when our inner voice wants to write, we have no choice, but [...]
Megan Wade Antieau July 20, 2007 at 3:15 pm
# One CommentPrior to the U.S. Social Forum, the term “solidarity economy” did not exist in my vocabulary. When I saw that there would be a Solidarity Economy Tent at the Forum, I brushed it off as probably being about fair trade. Important, but not necessarily exciting in contrast to the Forum’s many other offerings.
But then I [...]
J.J. Allard-Matthaei July 11, 2007 at 3:19 pm
# No Comment YetMost of the over 10,000 people who traveled to the first-ever U.S. Social Forum would consider ourselves activists, and most are acutely aware of the many systemic problems that our country faces, from increasing inequality and persistent poverty to environmental degradation, from a corrupt political system to an unjust war, from the continuing struggle with [...]
Jenna Allard July 11, 2007 at 3:16 pm
# No Comment YetOn my way to the first ever Social Forum held in the United States, the journey itself featured a little more prominently in my overall experience than I would have liked. By the time I stepped off the first leg of my flight, my connection was already delayed for wont of a pilot. [...]