Posted March 26, 2024: Citing a Lack of Evidence, Editors of the Scientific American Call for Abolition of the Death Penalty in New Op-Ed https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/news/citing-a-lack-of-evidence-editors-of-the-scientific-american-call-for-abolition-of-the-death-penalty-in-new-op-ed
I have been studying the death penalty extensively since 1987. Over and over again, we see that PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS are NOT seeking truth or justice. THEY JUST WANT TO WIN, so they commit cruel acts, such as suppressing evidence that the defendant is INNOCENT. Here is yet another case of this. It came from www.deathpenaltyaction.org April 25, 2024 will be two years since the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals stayed Melissa Lucio’s execution date and ordered an evidentiary hearing. Why has the evidentiary hearing not been held? We know why. There was never a murder, so they have no […]
Many people assume there is a spectrum of organizing methods ranging from 100% nonviolence (nice, but not strong enough) to violence (powerful and effective.) ACTUALLY, THAT ASSUMPTION IS FALSE!!! Actually, RESEARCH HAS PROVEN that adding any violence to an effort REDUCES the likelihood of winning. I highly recommend the easy-to-read book by Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan – Why Civil Resistance Works – in which they researched a century of major campaigns for change. They found that those that were scrupulously 100% nonviolent were much more likely to win than those that included some violence. I mention this […]
You can WATCH this through the blog link below and/or READ what we said during the interview at a different link below. The April 2024 interview on “Glen’s Parallax Perspectives” TV series provides fresh information and insights into prison sentences. Besides discussing several problems about prison sentences, we will also discuss some solutions that deserve more public awareness, support and implementation. He said that every program in this TV series discusses problems – and also pivots toward solutions. He said today’s interview will pivot several times. Glen welcomed an expert guest who helped us explore this topic. Alexandra Bailey works […]
You can WATCH this through the blog link below and/or READ what we said during the interview at a different link below. This program is so richly informative and insightful that you will want to share this with other people. The March 2024 interview on “Glen’s Parallax Perspectives” TV series provides much solid information about some parts of the world that are in the news. Glen and his guest Khury Petersen-Smith help you understand those realities in some fresh ways. Later in the interview, we pulled the pieces together and see how they fit into a larger – and deeper […]
You can WATCH this through the blog link below and/or READ what we said during the interview at a different link below. The February 2024 interview on “Glen’s Parallax Perspectives” TV series provides information, insights, and enthusiasm for supporting social and economic justice through the Poor People’s Campaign. You might know that the Campaign had existed in the late 1960s. Well, it is back and organizing vigorously for the original purposes – and for making progress on related issues. Glen said today he is interviewing one of the tri-chairs for Washington State’s Poor People’s Campaign. Anyone anywhere can watch […]
King called himself a democratic socialist. He believed that America needed a “radical redistribution of economic and political power.” https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/12/25/martin-luther-king-was-radical-not-moderate?vgo_ee=k2jIECcPP24SvUHOjogvWM%2Fa8rzVrD8A28fuZdXegaA%3D
How the Vietnam War pushed MLK to embrace global justice, not only civil rights at home It is a radical concept of love that demands we embrace those we know and those we don’t, to acknowledge, as King said, “that all life is interrelated, that somehow we’re caught in an inescapable network of mutuality tied in a single garment of destiny.” https://www.nationofchange.org/2022/01/13/how-the-vietnam-war-pushed-mlk-to-embrace-global-justice-not-only-civil-rights-at-home/
Ever since the Civil Rights Movement’s era, I have appreciated King’s strong, bold, radical message. I have read his books and studied him extensively. I know a number of people who had worked very closely with him during the Movement, including the older white man sitting next to him on the first integrated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in December 1956. For too many years people want to water him down to the “Dream” speech, because a “dream” is something not real – something possibly for the future – something that does not compel radical change now. That is why the […]
Martin Luther King, Jr., strongly supported peace, nonviolence, and social justice in many ways. He affirmed BOTH Israel and Palestine. He said Israel’s government must return the land it stole from Palestinian people. See this recent item reporting on what he had said in 1967: We Don’t Have to Guess What MLK Thought About the Israel-Palestine Conflict – Mother Jones
See many opportunities here to lobby the 2024 WA State Legislature and work with many excellent non-profit organizations to help them with their legislative goals: 2024 Legislative Session Opportunities for Important Issues and Great Non-Profit Orgs
Pope Francis message for 2023 Christmas included this: “To say “yes” to the Prince of Peace, then, means saying “no” to war, to every war and to do so with courage, to the very mindset of war, an aimless voyage, a defeat without victors, an inexcusable folly. This is what war is: an aimless voyage, a defeat without victors, an inexcusable folly. To say “no” to war means saying “no” to weaponry. The human heart is weak and impulsive; if we find instruments of death in our hands, sooner or later we will use them. And how can we even […]
In a Lutheran church in Bethlehem, a Palestinian Lutheran pastor delivered a powerful sermon about Jesus in the rubble. “Christ in the Rubble”: Watch Palestinian Pastor Deliver Powerful Christmas Sermon from Bethlehem | Democracy Now!
In addition to vigorously opposing abortion, many Republican politicians want to sharply restrict birth control. Those Republicans are INTERFERING with — and thereby OPPOSING — heterosexual activities. Unwittingly, those Republicans are telling people to meet their sexual needs WITHOUT persons of the opposite sex. To avoid pregnancy, women should have sexual intercourse only with other women. To avoid impregnating women, men should have sexual intercourse only with other men. Who would have guessed that Republicans are such big supporters of the gay/lesbian movement?
The Christmas story highlights a young family — Joseph and Mary who was 9 months pregnant — who were forced by the oppressive undemocratic government that ruled over them to travel to a distant place. But there was “no room at the inn,” so they had no choice but to stay in a stable, where Mary gave birth to Jesus. This iconic story of gross injustice keeps playing out nowadays with different characters and new ironies. For many decades the U.S. has supported brutal right-wing governments (sometimes overthrowing democracies in order to install those oppressive regimes) in Latin America and […]
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