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December Holidays
By Rev. Robert (Bob) Murphy A major holiday celebration is like a mobilization. For every December festival, for every holiday concert, and for every poetry reading in the community, the questions for people of conscience are the same: “What’s the message?” “What’s needed in the world?” Organizers work for weeks to bring everything together. Attention […]
Holidays with Class
Say Whaattt?!? Redux You can speak up for class justice, fight bias – and still enjoy your holiday gathering. Check out these tips. You’re pouring hot chocolate and keeping appetizer platters filled to the brim during your family and friends holiday gathering when the doorbell rings. Uncle Lou offers to get the door, opens it […]
My New Class-Instructed Patriotism
By Denise Moorehead Days after it aired, I watched a rebroadcast of the National Memorial Day Concert. The event has taken place on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol for more than three decades. It is not something I would normally watch. It was always a bit too rah, rah, armed forces anthems and military […]
Hurting Those with the Least Class Privilege
The U.S. House of “Representatives” has passed legislation that makes the largest cuts to healthcare in American history, including Medicaid cuts totaling $700 billion and $500 billion in Medicare cuts. These programs make the difference between good health and sickness or even death for those in the United States who have limited social class […]
