The New York Times carried a piece yesterday describing anti-immigration mob violence in Johanesburg South Africa. Groups of vigilantes were taking to the streets to beat and burn to death recent immigrants to this city from the country … Continue reading
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A couple weeks back, I gave a talk at the Christopher Program, an Alternative High School in downtown Columbus, Ohio. The class I talked in was doing some tremendously creative “Service Learning” projects. One student was doing an … Continue reading
I have spent a considerable amount of time the last few weeks interviewing people who are activists for nonviolence. Bill Corrigan, who is a deacon at St. Colman’s Church in Cleveland, saw the horror of war first-hand in World … Continue reading
I was just telling someone yesterday that for Martin Luther King Day two years ago, our family rode on a Koinoinia float in the Martin Luther King Day parade in Americus, Georgia. Koinoinia was the backwater Selma and Montgomery … Continue reading
During a campaign leg in California, I told CBS News in Monterey that to heal the country, you have to heal the family. I am a former counselor who worked extensively with family system dynamics. If a child … Continue reading
Met with Phil Pinks in Dunkirk, Ohio. He said his grandaughter had an extreme case of Down Syndrome and was given virtually no chance of going to school, etc. However the extended family rallied around the girl and … Continue reading
We traveled from the debate in D.C. to the Green Party National Convention in Reading, Pennsylvania. The three days at the Convention were a whirlwind for us. I had declared to vy for the Green Party nomination among … Continue reading
In the last entry, I talked about participating in a debate among independent presidential candidates at the National Press Club in D.C. One of the questions dealt with each candidate’s stance on abortion. Green Party nomination candidate Kent … Continue reading
We went to an Assemblies of God Wednesday night service in Bellevue, Ohio, last night. Pastor John Ginty and his wife Jodi told me they used to be involved with the “Open Air Ministry” in LA’s Watts area. … Continue reading
Our family went Sunday to a gathering for Liberian refugees who were relocated to this Near Westside Cleveland area several years ago. This small enclave of Liberians are just a few of some 340,000 Liberians who have fled the … Continue reading