I met with Hispanic social activist Anton Flores for a second time Wednesday in LaGrange, Georgia. He said a key to the immigration issue is looking at the systemic issues behind the poverty and violence that drives many people … Continue reading
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We met with a group of Hispanic immigrant families who are all part of the Alterna Project in LaGrange Tuesday night. They live in a cluster of homes on Jefferson Street here as part of a “housing co-op.” … Continue reading
I went to a Catholic Worker social event Saturday night. Sitting next to me was a man I hadn’t seen before. I asked him where he was from. He said he’d just gotten out of prison, for … Continue reading
I mentioned in the last blog entry that I talked to a couple classes at Holy Cross College in South Bend, Indiana. The classes revolved around a Christian response to our global society. One of the classes is … Continue reading
Catching up on some of our recent backroads campaigning… Just outside Huntington, West Virginia, I interviewed Frank Holcomb from Point Pleasant in Mason County. He is a retired state trooper. Several years prior, he had answered a … Continue reading
For the last week I’ve been doing some final editing on a book I’ve written about our time in Cleveland. It’s titled: America’s Best Urban Neighborhood. The following is an excerpt: “At the time of … Continue reading
I was an adult volunteer faciliator at John Marshall High School in Cleveland yesterday for “Challenge Day.” This was a day-long event that included 100 high school students, some 20 adults, and a couple staff … Continue reading
Shootings at Columbine, at Virginia Tech and at so many other schools these days are the far end of a violence continuum. The other night I went to an information session in Cleveland about how to short circuit some … Continue reading
I mentioned at the beginning of this week that I talked with Augi Pacetti who is a youth minister at St. Ignatius High School here in Cleveland. Several of his students and another teacher have been doing The Great … Continue reading
Iran did some missile tests last week and, in turn, the United States ramped up it’s rhetoric against them. We don’t want Iran to have nuclear weapons capability. Yet we have nuclear weapons aimed all over the world, … Continue reading