http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sat, 25 May 2013 16:02:33 Sat, 25 May 2013 16:02:33 [div class="excerpt"][b]THE HUTCHINSON REPORT: Poverty is still a dirty word in America.[/b]
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson

(September 18, 2009)

*The figure on real poverty in America is far worse than the Census Bureau recently reported.

It found that nearly 40 million Americans are living... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Indigo Blue/57 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:22:09 A $1.00 food stamp. I carry it in my wallet. It was my mother's. Some of you might remember her as a poster here, Sapphire Blue.

We received food stamps when I was a little kid, for a couple of years, I think. When she got a better job, and no longer needed food stamps, she decided to keep that l... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Indigo Blue/56 Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:44:35 After reading these replies so critical of John Edwards (with the exception of Ken Burch's reply), some pretty childish criticisms at that, I've decided to delete this post. You can have at John Edwards somewhere else. Here's the link to the article if anyone wants to read it: http://www.washingtonp... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Indigo Blue/55 Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:45:42 [b]"Hunger must be on presidential plate"[/b]
By George McGovern and Jim Mcgovern
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - Added 1d 22h ago


More people die from hunger in the world today than from war.

Yet in all the presidential debates, there was not a single question to the candidates on their pla... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Indigo Blue/54 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:46:34 [b]Researchers, Analysts Say Updated Poverty Gauge Long Overdue
Measurement formula unchanged since 1960s[/b]

New York City – Researchers and policy analysts at Columbia University’s National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) are urging lawmakers to change how poverty is measured in America.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Indigo Blue/53 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:09:09 'The Bread You Possess Belongs to the Hungry'
by St. Basil

They say: Whom do I wrong by keeping my property? What, tell me, is your property? Where did you find it and brought it to your life? Just like someone in the theatre, who had a seat and then stopped those who entered, judging that what ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Indigo Blue/52 Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:55:00 [b]It's a 30-year sneak attack in America's class war[/b]
Dan Rodricks
October 19, 2008

Maintaining a tradition that has been around since at least the Reagan Revolution, John McCain the other night ridiculed the idea of "spreading the wealth" and accused Barack Obama of playing "class warfar... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Indigo Blue/51 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:33:42 [b]Wealth gap creating a social time bomb[/b]

• Race behind division in US cities, says UN report

• Beijing is most egalitarian place in the world

John Vidal, environment editor
The Guardian, Thursday October 23 2008

Growing inequality in US cities could lead to widespread social unr... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Indigo Blue/50 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:55:42 Thursday, October 23, 2008

[i]'It was either there or the street'[/i]

[b]Inferno devastates recently evicted family who found refuge in ramshackle house[/b]
[b]3 children, woman die in fire that destroys five homes in Highland Park[/b]

Francis X. Donnelly, Catherine Jun and Tanveer Ali / T... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Indigo Blue/49 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:11:55 http://www.poormagazine.org/news/2098/photo_1_feature.jpg
A digital-vigil for John Robert McGraham


[b]This is a guy who never hurt anybody[/b]

Houseless, mentally ill man in LA doused with gasoline and set ablaze

Daily Newswire Service
Sunday, October 19, 2008;

LOS ANGELES -- City o... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Indigo Blue/48 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:49:53 http://www.poormagazine.org/news/2096/photo_1_feature.jpg

[b]Sleep without Drowning[/b]

[b]The Mayor is water-hosing human beings in the most recent example of "cleaning up" [/b]

Bruce Allison/PNN Elder and Poverty Scholar
Saturday, October 18, 2008;

The increased criminalization of po... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Indigo Blue/47 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:25:17 [b]Universal Declaration of Human Rights[/b]

Article 25

(1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the eve... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Indigo Blue/46 Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:37:48 [b]We Only Need One Billion

Families, children and elders in poverty ask congress to consider giving at least one billion of the proposed 700 Billion Bailout to families and elders struggling with poverty across the nation[/b]

tiny aka Lisa Gray-Garcia/PNN
Friday, October 3, 2008;

[i]Thous... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Indigo Blue/45 Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:08:29 [b]Gov. Pleads For Winter Home Heating Aid[/b]
[i]Mass. To Get $163 Million[/i]
POSTED: 7:27 am EDT September 26, 2008
UPDATED: 7:30 am EDT September 26, 2008

WASHINGTON -- Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick urged Congress on Thursday to provide more money for what are expected to be record home... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Indigo Blue/44 Sat, 27 Sep 2008 10:33:22 [b]UN agency vows to buy from poorest farmers[/b]
By Javier Blas in London
Published: September 25 2008 04:24 | Last updated: September 25 2008 04:24

The World Food Programme on Wednesday announced a significant shift in the way it buys agricultural commodities, saying it will now purchase from... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Indigo Blue/43 Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:12:32 [b]White people need to acknowledge benefits of unearned privilege[/b]
by Robert Jensen

(Note: This article appeared in the Baltimore Sun newspaper and was written by a Caucasian professor of journalism at the U of Texas. A followup piece can be found here: http://www.dickshovel.com/priv2.html.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Indigo Blue/42 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:11:35 One of my mom's favorite books was 'All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten', by Robert Fulghum. She had a copy of the book, the pages and binding torn & taped from reading so many times. I have her copy of the book now, along with a roll of tape.

I'd like to share a passage from the... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Indigo Blue/40 Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:08:20 September 18, 2008, 7:52 am

[b]Explaining White Privilege (Or, Your Defense Mechanism is Showing)[/b]

Sigh.

I guess I should have expected it, seeing as how it's nothing new. I write a piece on racism and white privilege (namely, the recently viral This is Your Nation on White Privilege), l... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Indigo Blue/39 Sat, 20 Sep 2008 02:26:49 http://www.blogher.com/blog/michelle-obama
... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Indigo Blue/38 Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:48:57 [b]Tim Jacob Wise[/b]

Tim Wise is among the most prominent anti-racist writers and activists in the U.S., and has been called, "One of the most brilliant, articulate and courageous critics of white privilege in the nation," by best-selling author and professor Michael Eric Dyson, of Georgetown Un... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Indigo Blue/37 Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:57:17 [b]White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack[/b]

[i]"I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group"[/i]

Peggy McIntosh

Through work to bring materials from women's studies into the rest of the curriculum, I ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Indigo Blue/36 Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:42:05 Headlined on 9/16/08:
[b]This is Your Nation on White Privilege[/b]

by Tim Wise (Posted by Siv O'Neall) Page 1 of 2 page(s)


For those who still can’t grasp the concept of white privilege, or who are looking for some easy-to-understand examples of it, perhaps this list will help.

Whi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Indigo Blue/35 Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:21:30 [div class="excerpt"][b]'Arming' for Armageddon
Militant Joel's Army Followers Seek Theocracy[/b]
By Casey Sanchez
Photography by Lowell Handler

Intelligence Report
Fall 2008

http://www.splcenter.org/images/dynamic/intel/report/46/todd5.jpg
Canadian Todd Bentley, who preached for months o... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Indigo Blue/33 Sun, 14 Sep 2008 12:19:14 [b]Women Against Sarah Palin[/b]

Saturday, September 6, 2008
[b]OUR ORIGINAL CALL TO ACTION[/b]

Friends and compatriots,

We are writing to you because of the fury and dread we have felt since the announcement of Sarah Palin as the Vice-Presidential candidate for the Republican Party. We b... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Indigo Blue/31 Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:16:29 [b]Faith groups challenge political candidates to fight poverty[/b]
By Dennis Sadowski (Catholic News Service)
Published Sep 9, 2008

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- People of faith are being urged to "move their feet" to elevate poverty as a campaign issue in the final weeks leading to the November electi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Indigo Blue/30 Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:38:53