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Wrong Shifting Sides
In California prisons, hunger strikes have began again in order to protest the fact that the promised reforms, subject of the last recent hunger strikes, have not yet happened. Prisoners are held in indefinite detention, in solitary confinement for years. For some release from solitary would mean they would have to inform authorities on who…
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The Decency To Doubt
Whether it’s Texas governor Rich Perry admitting he has no doubt about the guilt of those who have been executed, or the reaction of those who were against some kind of reprieve to the recent execution of Troy Davis in Georgia, or anyone else who is sure of guilt in a capital offense, I pause…
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Thank You Jackie
It’s not what Jackie Kennedy said about Martin Luther King Jr. or about Lyndon Johnson that stands out for me in those recently released taped conversations. What stands out is how far she came, how much she grew, how she matured and evolved. She was 34 when she gave those interviews at a time when…
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