It’s a new year, and we’ve been trying to find new topics for our columns.
In reviewing the columns over the past few years, we wrote against racism and animal cruelty. But, there’s still racism and animal cruelty, so we’ll still have to speak out on these critical social issues.
We wrote about tolerance and the acceptance [...]
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Housing the homeless saves money and is good for us.
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[by Rosemary and Walter Brasch]
There have now been more than 4,000 deaths and 30,000 casualties of American military in the war in Iraq. More than 100,000 Iraqis and others, most of them civilian, have also been killed in what is now known to be an unnecessary war. But, we as a nation are not outraged.
We [...]
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WANDERINGS, with Walter Brasch
December 19, 2008
brasch@bloomu.edu
by Walter Brasch
The chairman of the Republican National Committee may have begun an irreversible descent into a future as a fear-bound paranoid victim of functional amnesia, possibly caused by a hysterical post-traumatic event such as the overwhelming victory of Democrats in the 2008 election and the nation’s [...]
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Worthy of mention here… Today, Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.) introduced the Reconnecting Youth to Prevent Homelessness Act, to give more support to foster families, foster children, and young adults transitioning from the foster care system into adulthood. Right now, one-fifth of foster children wind up being homeless adults.
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In Los Angeles robbery sinks to a new low:
A burglar stole tens of thousands of dollars Sunday from a Union Rescue Mission safe, money that homeless people had saved up from jobs they held outside the shelter, officials said. The thief then set a fire to cover his tracks.
The smoke forced the San Pedro Street [...]
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We send them to war and they come home and end up on the streets. Is this supporting the troops? A new study shows:
Veterans make up one in four homeless people in the United States, though they are only 11 percent of the general adult population, according to a report to be released Thursday. [...]
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Alright, I’m back, and I’m ready to give a gentle swipe of the blade. Okay, it may not be all that gentle come to think of it. What better place to put up for a blade swing, than the local forum? A place where the wingnuts have gone overboard this time. Open wide….it’s medicine time! [...]
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Information about Bushville.org came via our comments… American’s have had all they can take… And so it begins… The People Will Rise Up…
On 9/11 survivors of Katrina will commit a NONVIOLENT act of Civil Disobedience – building an encampment on the Washington DC Mall.
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