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• CATHERINE TURNQUIST: ‘If disabled children are no longer a priority, then neither is civilization’

  
  CCC BLOG — Authority: 128
  DISABLED CHILDREN MUST BE A PRIORITY   A small delegation of parents went to the legislature recently to present the premier with a bunch of balloons. The gesture was meant to remind Premier Gordon Campbell of the special-needs children whose service are being gutted by budgetary constraints. Although the group ...
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• What matters more - impact or structure

  
  The Social Business — Authority: 113
  Im on a bit of a roll writing about social impact at the moment - heres a post Ive written for the UnltdWorld blog as part of their Shout Out for Social Enterprise series - questioning whether a focus on certain business structures (four legged company limited by guarantee good, two legged private business bad) ...
  7 hours ago

• franklin avenue blog: atomic cafe hosts rest stop in 11-21 “great los angeles walk 2009″ (2061)

  
  aids-write.org — Authority: 131
  Mid-City Gets Into the Great Los Angeles Walk Spirit November 12, 2009 GREAT NEWS from the Mid-City Neighborhood Council! They’ll be sponsoring a water and supply station for this year’s Great LA Walk! Here are the details, from Bruce Durbin of the Mid City Neighborhood Council: The Mid City ...
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• SAINT GERTRUDE THE GREAT: Mystic Benedictine nun, Herald of Divine Love, Helfta, Saxony, 1302

  
  CCC BLOG — Authority: 128
  1302   ST. GERTRUDE THE GREAT , mystic, a nun at Helfta, Saxony , under the rule of St. Benedict. She was entrusted to the sisters at five and at twenty-five had a vision of Christ , which made her realize for the first time in a meaningful way that Christ was a Person and that he took pleasure in dwelling ...
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• Faith Communities Coalesce Against Stupak

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 804
  Leaders in the faith community want Americans to know that The Family at C-Street and the U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops dont have a monopoly on the discussion of abortion in healthcare reform within the religious community. Earlier this week, faith groups issued a joint statement [pdf] reaffirming support ...
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• 20 years ago today

  
  Musings of a Discerning Woman — Authority: 122
  Today in 1989, Jesuits Ignacio Ellacuria, Segundo Montes, Juan Ramón Moreno, Ignacio Martin Baro, Armando López, and Joaquín López y López, were murdered at their home at the University of Central America in El Salvador, along with their housekeeper Elba Ramos and her 15-year old daughter Celina Ramos. I wasnt ...
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• Human Trafficking, Justice, and CSI

  
  onehandclapping — Authority: 461
  I’ve gotten used to popular TV shows going the after-school special route and highlighting some issue or another.  Granted, it boosts their ratings, but it also brings attention to issues that need attention.  So I was intrigued this past week when the CSI franchise did a story-arc across all three shows that ...
  13 hours ago

• Religious Folks Can be Involved in Politics If They Meet the Litmus Test.

  
  Opinionated Catholic — Authority: 149
  The double standard is pretty blatant isnt it? Inside Catholic has Meddling Bishops Interfere in Political Process .
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• Are Bisexuals Expendable In Gay Marriage Debate?

  
  Opinionated Catholic — Authority: 149
  So lets talk Sex and Politics on Opinionated Catholic. Get Religion looks at a curious article that the Washington Post ran. See You got your op-ed in my news story . Basically the argument is since men sometimes cheat on their spouses with other men that we should have gay marriage. Problem solved and thus ...
  14 hours ago

• Cognitive Disability and its Challenge to Moral Philosophy

  
  What Sorts of People — Authority: 115
  Readers of the blog who followed our Thinking in Action series of blog posts on the above-named conference, held in New York in September 2008, as well as others, might be interested in having a look at the finished papers from that conference. They have now been published in a special issue of the [...]
  15 hours ago

• Will President Obama Sink Health Care Bill Over Abortion?

  
  Opinionated Catholic — Authority: 149
  Creative Minority Report has the latest smoke signals from the White House .at Their President Or Life. No Middle Ground. . I have my doubts. Will Democrats vote against a Health Care bill that would be a huge step for them forward if it has the provision? I doubt it. If so they really need to be called out.
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• Labor Boss Says He Hopes to ‘Take the Corporate Community and Its Greed Out of the Picture’

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 530
  Advocates of single-payer health care will not stop there, according to Jerry Tucker, former member of the UAW International Executive Board who now represents the group, Labor for Single Payer.  Speaking during the opening session of the 2009 Healthcare-Now.org National Strategy Conference Saturday afternoon in St. ...
  16 hours ago

• Humane Educators Toolbox: Unlearning Indian Stereotypes

  
  Humane Connection — Authority: 128
  Unlearning Indian Stereotypes by Council on Interracial Books for Children. Enhanced by Rethinking Schools. 2008. “…books and movies tell lies about Native people.” A group of children from several different Indian nations talks about their experiences as American Indians and expresses their anger, sadness ...
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• Non-Violent Resistance

  
  Missio Dei — Authority: 512
  What if the way to end a war begins with saying, “There is no war.”? A couple of days ago, I was browsing through my Blog Reader and came across this title” “Winning The Drug War By Ending It” The title refers to a short post from Andrew Sullivan on the war on drugs, but it got me thinking about what ...
  18 hours ago

• ABORTION: "Nobodys Right if Everybodys Wrong", A Heinous and Barbaric Debate

  
  The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy — Authority: 622
  Let me help both Pro-Life and Pro-Choice camps with a few factoids from a country where abortion is illegal thanks to the Catholic Church; the country being the Philippines. First let’s start with a few socio-political facts. The Catholic Church and a few spin-offs that are even more ultra-conservative like the ...
  21 hours ago

• Trials And Tribulations Of Silvio Berlusconi

  
  The Impudent Observer - Global Liberal Issues — Authority: 445
  I realize there are people in the world who do not appreciate the problems of having a billio n dollars or so, but just ask poor Silvio Berlusconi, who is not only prime minister of Italy, but he also presides over a fortune worth more than one billion dollars. Silvio enjoys the company of attractive women and one ...
  23 hours ago

• Israel Accuses Sweden Of Diplomatic Coup

  
  The Impudent Observer - Global Liberal Issues — Authority: 445
  Once upon a time a long time ago there was a nation named Israel which held itself up to the world as a symbol of decency and respect for the rights of all humans. But, as the years passed, Israeli leaders adopted the stance the entire world was against their nation and therefore it could act and do as it wished ...
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• Obama Urges Release Of Burma Human Rights Leader

  
  The Impudent Observer - Global Liberal Issues — Authority: 445
  Barack Obama has decided to attempt a new approach in dealing with leaders of Myanmar. Instead of the Bush tough talking and refusing to meet with anyone from the dictatorship of this unfortunate nation, the president reached out to Burma Prime Minister General Thein Sein while attending the Association of Southeast ...
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• Gordon Brown Vows No Appeasement Of Taliban

  
  The Impudent Observer - Global Liberal Issues — Authority: 445
  British Prime Minister Gordon Brown vowed the West will never appease the Taliban and assured the people of his nation the tide was turning and the Taliban were on the run. His speech comes at a time when latest figures indicate that over 1,000 UK soldiers were flown home this year either due to being wounded in ...
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• Gates Blocks Release Of Detainee Abuse Photos

  
  The Impudent Observer - Global Liberal Issues — Authority: 445
  Secretary of Defense Robert Gates imposed a ban on the release of any photos that depict abusive treatment of detainees who were under the supervision of American military personnel. According to Gates James Jaffer, of the American Civili Liberties Union, responded by noting the photos were important pieces of ...
  23 hours ago

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