March 9, 2017 By Bette McDevitt When the political climate becomes unbearable, and that is often, I think of The People’s Inauguration, at Freedom Corner, Friday, January 20, 2017. I call to […]
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The Psychopathology in America’s Zeitgeist
March 9, 2017 By Michael Drohan In the present political turmoil in the US, epithets such as “paranoid,” “psychopath,” and “fascist” are bandied about as descriptions of the political actors within the […]
Today’s America: Afflicted by Class
March 8, 2016 By Neil Cosgrove Nancy Isenberg’s White Trash: The 400-Year History of Class in America teaches us that the pundits, political operatives and academics should have been paying attention to […]
Faith Community Mobilizes
March 8, 2017 By Wanda Guthrie and Claudia Detwiler Attention: Leaders of Faith Communities Greenfaith is a national fellowship of people of diverse religious backgrounds who advocate for care of creation. Its […]
One Thousand Forty Days and Counting
March 8, 2017 By Jacqueline Souza That’s how many days have passed since the citizens of Flint, Michigan have had clean drinking water. (Published in print on March 1, 2017) In April […]
A Tale of Two Marches
March 7, 2017 By Mollie March-Steinman and Marni Fritz In solidarity with the January 21st Women’s March in D.C., sister marches began popping up in cities across the country. Here in Pittsburgh, […]
Resisting the ‘Deadly Triplets’ of Racism, Militarism, and Materialism
March 6, 2017 By Ellen Wilson “The burning of fossil fuels,” says Wanda Guthrie, “has led to the emergence of corporations that have become so wealthy and powerful that the control, extraction, […]
Environmental Injustice Frequently Means Racial Injustice
March 6, 2017 By Mollie March-Steinman Controversy has surrounded Pittsburgh being named America’s “most livable city” ever since the town proudly claimed the title. The same city that displaced thousands of Black […]
TMC 45 Years In the Struggle
March 6, 2017 By Molly Rush In 1970, the horrors of the Vietnam War and the Vatican II Council had inspired many Catholics to work for civil rights and peace. CEASE, Catholics […]
The Socialism of the Black Panther Party
March 6, 2017 By Mollie March-Steinman cw/tw: violence against Black people, racism Most public schools in America fail to mention the Black Panther Party (BPP) in history classes. If they do, […]
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