by Our Readers | Nov 5, 2012 | News
Iran: “War Is Failure” War is no answer to the present conflict between the U.S. and Iran. While I was glad to hear in the presidential debate talk about peaceful resolution of the conflict, I’m concerned that our feckless Congress and some of its...
by Our Readers | Nov 5, 2012 | News
Subsidies Enrich Landlords While reading the excellent article “No Place to Live” in the Oct.18th Advocate, I asked myself, Why are we allowing the 1 percent to impose so much suffering on our most vulnerable residents? We now live in a state where it is...
by Maureen Turner | Nov 5, 2012 | News
Recently, I had the chance to ask Michaelann Bewsee if she could imagine what her life would be like if she weren’t part of Arise of Social Justice, the poor people’s rights organization she helped found more than a quarter-century ago. She paused for a...
by Stephanie Kraft | Nov 5, 2012 | News
It’s a pity the old Greeks, who loved monumental visual ironies—cruel sight gags on the grand scale, like the living Antigone sealed in a cave while her dead brother moldered unburied—couldn’t watch what was happening in America during the last...
by Kathleen Broadhurst | Nov 5, 2012 | News
Florence has had a long history of supporting lesbian, bisexual, gay, transgender, questioning and intersex (LBGTQI) rights. It’s just little known. In a series of lectures entitled Stories of Our LGBTQI Ancestors, researcher Bet Power and the Sexual Minorities...
