The front page headline today on a Cleveland Plain Dealer story about the teen school shooting on the Indian Reservation in Bemidji, MN read: What Drove Teen Killer? I have some thoughts: America committed genocide on the Native Americans, then … Continue reading →
I learned of a rather fascinating building in downtown Cleveland today. The five-story office complex is being billed as a “green building” and is being used as a model. There are solar panels and raised bed gardens on the roof. … Continue reading →
Interviewed Bill Cherry, 67, who lives in Bay Village, Ohio and bicycles some 12 miles a day. He said he particularly likes the Cleveland area because it has good sidewalks for cycling and the public transit buses even have bike … Continue reading →
We’re back in Ohio to start the next phase of the campaign, and our lives in general. And as we’ve often asked many Americans to consider, we will soon be moving from Bluffton, Ohio to the heart of the inner … Continue reading →
Heading back to Ohio on I-75, we met Joe and Carole Ellis, who were heading home to Louisville, Kentucky from Oaxaca, Mexico. Each winter they go down to this extremely poor area of Mexico in their small XPlorer motor home, … Continue reading →
Picked up a copy of the Valdosta (GA) University “The Spectator” student newspaper. Part of the masthead reads: “Less than the cost of Ramen Noodles… but you can’t eat it.” Obviously written by a “poor college student” whose regular fare … Continue reading →
Participated in a Discipleship class at St. Edwards Church in Valdosta, Georgia. Deacon David Lasseter facilitated the group and said: “Justice is for those who can’t speak up for themselves. ” He also said he was considering starting a chapter … Continue reading →
Was interviewed by Jasmine Rangel of the Lake City (FL) Reporter. I said the night before I talked to a youth group in her city about worldwide hunger, including that 24,000 people starve to death every day in the world. … Continue reading →
Gave a talk to Clare Teixeira’s youth group at Epiphany Catholic Church in Lake City, Florida. I said when people are on the verge of starving to death, they get distended stomachs because without protein in their systems, the body … Continue reading →
Met with Teresa Walsh in San Antonia, Florida. For ten years, their family put up her mother and father in an ‘grandparents suite’ in their ranch style home. (The grandparents lived in a converted basement, with a kitchen and so … Continue reading →