Month: June 2007

How to Destroy an African-American City in Thirty Three Steps – Lessons from Katrina By Bill Quigley. Bill Quigley is a human rights lawyer and law professor at Loyola University New Orleans. You can reach Bill at Quigley@loyno.edu Step One. Delay. If there is one word that sums up the way to destroy an African-American… Continue reading How to Destroy an African-American City in Thirty Three Steps

Turn, Turn, Turn Cindy Sheehan To everything there is a season. A time for war, a time for peace. Ecclesiastes, Hebrew Scriptures I wish I could say I thought of something profound as I saw the president and his wife’s picture on that billboard on Hwy 317 in my rear view mirror on my way… Continue reading Turn-Turn-Turn by Cindy Sheehan

Open Letter to Cindy Sheehan: We need you now more than ever from the Campus Antiwar Network We remember first hearing about you standing up to Bush in Crawford, Texas with admiration and hope. Just months before he had been re-elected, not because the majority of people supported the war, but because John Kerry offered… Continue reading Open Letter to Cindy Sheehan

Being Hope by Kathy Kelly May 31, 2007 Earlier this week, the American Friends Service Committee asked me to speak about finding hope in hard times as part of an interfaith service to conclude their “Eyes Wide Open” display in Chicago’s Grant Park. The display arranged 3,438 soldiers’ boots to commemorate U.S. military people killed… Continue reading Being Hope, by Kathy Kelly