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The power of nonviolent protest
A few years ago I visited Birmingham, Alabama for the wedding of two friends. One day, I spent some hours in Birmingham’s Civil Rights Institute, and the arboreal, stunning square across the street, Kelly Ingram Park, now part of the … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, The Facts of Life, voting and voting rights
Tagged Anne Schwerner, Birmingham Alabama, Birmingham Children's March, Brimingham Civil Rights Institute, Charlottesville, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Gandhi, Kelly Ingram Park, march to Selma, Martin Luther King, Mickey Schwerner, neo-Nazis, New Rochelle High School, passive resistance, racism, The Children's March, Voting Rights Act of 1965, white supremacists
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The “libertarian” war against public schools: what does it mean?
Source: What the ‘Government Schools’ Critics Really Mean – The New York Times Katherine Stewart, an investigative journalist, published an opinion piece in today’s New York Times for which I am grateful. Because it relieves me of the necessity of … Continue reading
Posted in Koch Bros Final Solution to Democracy, Law, suits and order, Politics, The Facts of Life
Tagged Betsy DeVos, Brown v Board of Education, Civil War, Emancipation, government schools, Jim Crow, Katherine Stewart, Koch Bros final solution to democracy, libertarianism, Nancy MacLean, racism, religious fundamentalism, US Department of Education
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O beautiful for spacious skies…
You’ve probably read all these news events in the past week, but for me–devoted as I am to time lines because they reveal patterns in reality–Harper’s Weekly Review summarizes this week’s facts of life perfectly: A Democrat in Iowa withdrew … Continue reading
Posted in The Facts of Life, The god problem
Tagged Harper's Weekly Review, racism, right wing violence, the god problem, time lines, violence in the United States
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