A somewhat eclectic blog that I haven't maintained consistently. I cover a wide range of issues here, but will focus mostly on personal and systemic change -- specifically with regard to criminal justice reform.
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The following is a tradition with me, so you may have read it already. I post it in the humble hope that it will bring a you a cheer and remind you of the important things in life — the things that really matter. Sometimes things happen in your life that affects forever the very [...]
¡Hola mi Gente! Let me get this right: You are allowing, Newt Gingrich, a belligerent, bigoted, ethically challenged, hypocritical adulterer lecture you on morals and work ethics? LOL! I mean, this guy was found to be in violation of ethics in Washington, DC– the most ethically-challenged piec
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¡Hola! Everybody… Haven’t been writing as much lately mostly because I no longer have a laptop and I’m spending most of my free time at #OccupationWallStreet. There’s so much I want to share, but things are happening so quickly, it’s hard to keep up. * * * -=[ The Two Occupations ]=- Thinking is an
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¡Hola! Everybody… Busy, busy, busy! Today, in addition to all the insanity, I facilitated two women’s workshops, attended a steering committee meeting for a campaign against racial profiling and police brutality (here), and stopped by Occupy Wall St. for an hour or so before heading home. Yeah… LOL!
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¡Hola! Everybody… So… after watching the heavy-handed treatment of the Wall St. protestors… I decided to join in. I have friends/ former colleagues who have been Occupying Wall St. from the get, and early on I had decided not to get involved. Being involved in two other campaigns (
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¡Hola! Everybody… It is Labor Day — people died so you could have this day off; for the right to bargain collectively, for the 40-hour week, and paid vacations. People died so that you could enjoy workplace safety and work while maintain at least a semblance of human dignity and living wage. T
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¡Hola! Everybody… If you get a chance, shoot over to the Police Reform Organizing Project, a grassroots campaign aimed at promoting “changes in the wasteful, ineffective, unjust, illegal, bullying and racially biased practices of the NYPD” (click here). If you have ever been a vict
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¡Hola! Everybody… During the 60s there was a famous poster depicting a swami, complete with flowing beard and robes, on a surfboard with the caption, “You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn how to surf.” LOL! Here’s something to consider, especially relevant when life’s ‘waves” get too r
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The Five-0 The law is meant to be my servant and not my master, still less my torturer and my murderer. – James Baldwin, The Nation, 7/11/66 More than 40 years later, I can still remember the incident as if it happened yesterday. It was my first real interaction with a NYC police office
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