by Janice Christensen Autumn is a melancholy time. It’s my favorite time of the year. One can almost imagine our Pleistocene ancestors, sitting around the fire as the nights lengthen. Looking around the circle of faces. Knowing the faces will be different when summer comes again. Which ones will be absent? What change will have […]
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My Side of Town
When my mother moved my brother and me to the 2400 block of Murray Street in 1975, absent were flaming crosses or white-sheeted cone heads greeting us. Surely, there was racism, as there always has been and will be, but my brother and I were blissfully ignorant of its raging effects.
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Why Rich People Shouldn’t Shop at Wal-Mart
A lot of people in our neighborhood are thinking about money right now. Development. Property values. Social Security. This might be a good time think about money and what we want from it.
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The Riverwest “Village Republic”
Many people are familiar with Gandhi’s principle of non-violence, or ahimsa. However, there are three other principles of Gandhi’s teaching that are vital to understand if one is to use his ideas as he intended.
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Warriors Necessary
Black, Pink, White, Brown, Male, Female, we need them all. Humans dedicated to fighting for respect for their fellow citizens and against oppression. Warriors willing to speak out for justice.
I supported Mike McGee for alderman of the 6th district because I thought he would shake things up. There was a complacency in our civic consciousness that was too accepting of the status quo in central city neighborhoods. He has not disappointed.
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