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ATHER GEOFF Posts A response to a second E-mail from someone of the religious right. It’s an interesting conversation, but I’d like to highlight his quote from retired Roman Catholic Bishop Geoffrey Robinson‘s book Confronting Power and Sex in the Catholic Church. Far too often the Catholic Church has believed that it had such a [...]

EADING the current issue of Geez is hard because – among other things – it points out how many times we assume privilege and power in our equations for “fixing” the poor. Take a look at this bit on Changing the story of change, mindful that you’re reading about a Christian Organisation. The first mark [...]

UST IN Time for the November Election, we have these two pieces of news (on top of the current financial excitement): Could the financial turmoil result in Martial Law? Some congress people have been so advised… On top of that, Reality Sandwich cites the Army Times regarding a combat team in the USA Army being [...]

ACHO Points us to some leather-gloved Brownshirt tactics, calling us to act Against the Disenfranchisement of the American People: The plan by Michigan Republicans is to challenge the eligibility of voters whose names homes have entered foreclosure (“Lose Your Home, Lose Your Vote”). You read that right. Republicans in Michigan want to take away the [...]

As hard as I work to overcome my own internalised racism, I’m made very aware of it on a daily basis. Listening to the CBC news this weekend, driving around Hamilton, Ontario, as well as reading the paper, I was struck by the total lack of something: race. THere are no races in Canadian News. [...]