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March 26, 2010 Expect Better & Demand More Friends, I am just back from three weeks in Africa, the trip of a lifetime. I have so much to share with you and will do so in the coming weeks. I came home to an amazing accomplishment: the passing 4
February 8, 2010 Cancel Haiti’s Debt Dear Progressive Leaders: Critical to the rebuilding of Haiti is the cancellation of their debt, and then grants for the rebuild, not loans. Check this out and see what you can do to help. Also, don’t forget to register for 0
January 27, 2010 I Choose Choice Hi everyone. I am not sure where you stand on abortion; this is a very complicated issue, and even those of us who are progressive leaders vary in our opinions. I am a leader and I am a woman who 3
January 21, 2010 Our his(Story) to Write In a lovely book, The Butterfly’s Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States, edited by Edwidge Danticat, there is a poem in chapter one called “Present, Past, Future”. Penned by Marc Christophe, these are the opening lines: 1
January 16, 2010 Help Our Haitian Neighbors 40 seconds. 7.0 Magnitude. More than 50,000 dead. Too many to count. A cloud of dust and debris. Brown bodies covered with soot and dust; with blood sweat and tears. 3 million people will require aid for up to a 0
December 4, 2009 Marriage Equality: Justice Will Surely Come 24 – 38. That is how it shook out. 24 in the New York State Senate voted for the Marriage Equality Act; 38 voted against it. I was watching the live stream when the vote was taken on Wednesday. I 0
November 17, 2009 Listen to the Children Cry Yesterday at our church in the East Village, we celebrated National Children’s Sabbath. I know that children are not everyone’s flavor, and I also know that they can be distracting in public places. Who doesn’t get annoyed when a baby 0