Substitute “Birmingham” with “Witchita”

a bullet came to visit a doctor
in his one safe place
I think this song is in a lot of heads right now:

Hello Birmingham – Ani DiFranco

preventing more homelessness in NOLA

An action alert from the Katrina Information Network. Click the link to contact FEMA and other government officials.
(btw, I want to note that not all folks in New Orleans are OK with the term “refugee” to describe survivors of Katrina. But I respect the work that KIN does and support their goals) [...]

This Activist Life

“not sure when you last spoke to [x] or how much she told you about all the common ground drama, but it’s pretty chaotic here, and not in a good way.  [a founder] and the fiscal sponsor turned over all directing responsibility of cg to brandon darby, and, well, let’s just say that any lingering [...]

because “every” Catholic is blogging about it

There’s a lot I could comment on regarding the manufactured “controversy” of Obama speaking at Notre Dame, but I don’t think I’m ready to delve into that particular swamp.   I’m also reluctant to focus too much attention on something that ought to be a non-issue on the spectrum of Things To Be Morally Outraged [...]

Variation on Matthew 25

“The Gospel takes away our right, forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.” – Dorothy Day
“When The Beloved One comes in glory, and all the angels with The Beloved, all the nations will be assembled before the Beloved, who will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from [...]

Thank an anarchist

If you’re a worker in the U.S. who is guaranteed a maximum 8 hour work day, thank an anarchist. Thanks in part to a group of anarchists in Chicago during the 1880s, you have the right to work no more than 8 hours a day. It’s something a lot of us now take [...]