State Legislators Avoid Responsibility
State Legislators Avoid Responsibility for Higher Education
By Neil Cosgrove Here’s the awful truth: a significant, at times decisive, set of Pennsylvania legislators don’t believe their state has an obligation to provide affordable higher education to its less affluent […]
Prospects for a Unified Korea
By Michael Drohan The division of the Korean Peninsula into two Koreas is a tragedy of external meddling in the Korean affairs. Imperial messing in the Peninsula began at the end of […]
Stop Banking the Bomb Campaign Protests PNC’s Annual Shareholder Meeting
By The Stop Banking the Bomb Campaign (Photo Caption: PNC shareholders protest nuclear investments on April 24th. (Photo: Bette McDevitt) On Thursday, April 24th at 10 AM, the Stop Banking the Bomb campaign […]
The Myth of a System
By Paul Cech There seems to be a belief in the myth of a system where society can handle all that comes its way in a fashion reminiscent of a Rube Goldberg […]
White Supremacy and the 2nd Amendment
By Michael Drohan Review of book Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, City Lights Books, 2018. This wonderful peoples’ history by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz follows her earlier book […]
Sixth Annual Pittsburgh Darfur Emergency Coalition Forum
By Mary Dawn Edwards (Photo Caption: Speakers Ibrahim Mohamed Ishaq, Eric Cohen, Andrew Burnett and Brian Adeba lead the discussion at the Sixth Annual PDEC Forum. (Photo: Chelsey Engel) The Sixth Annual PDEC […]
Not Your Model Minority: Organizing Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Workers
By Kim Dinh (Photo Caption: TMC Board Member Antonia Domingo and Penn Plaza Action’s Judy Suh display APALA’s banner.) 2018 May Day Celebration – Pittsburgh, PA. As immigrants and workers in Pittsburgh gathered […]
Letter From the Director
By Gabriel McMorland I’m grateful for the work the Thomas Merton Center has been able to do in 2018. We helped workers win back more than $10,000 in stolen wages in the […]
In Memory of Fr. Eugene Lauer
By Joyce Rothermel On May 20, TMC member Fr. Gene Lauer passed away at age 82. A priest of the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh, he was a scholar, theologian, author, popular pastoral […]
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