What a transformation! Remember the classroom around the tree with children sitting on the ground? Through the Ghana Assistance project, chairs and tables have been purchased for the Larabanga Kids Development Project School, located in the village of Larabanga in northern Ghana.
The L.K.D.P. is a small project run by the youth of Larabanga. As a [...]
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Access Northern Ghana is a registered non governmental organization based in the northern region of Ghana.
Tamale is the third largest city in Ghana. In several communities in Tamale adults and children have very little knowledge of computers. ACNOG has identified one such community and has obtained space for a computer school there. The [...]
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Many shortcomings of the current system of electing the President stem from the rule that awards all of a state’s electoral votes to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in that particular state. Thus, voters in two thirds of the states are in effect disenfranchised in presidential elections because candidates concentrate their attention [...]
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Here’s the church. Here’s the steeple. Open the doors and—hey, where did all the evangelicals go?
See book review in Mother Jones: http://www.motherjones.com/arts/feature/2008/05/the-myth-of-the-moral-majority.html
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Stephanie Tang, a lifelong activist with strong convictions, dedicates herself to issues such as ending wars, protecting immigrant rights, and stopping police brutality. She is a leader in local efforts of The World Can’t Wait - Drive Out The Bush Regime. (The Nation magazine gave World Can’t Wait the “Most Valuable Crusade” award of 2007.) [...]
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Press Release from the American Humanist Association. (http://www.americanhumanist.org/press/samesexmarriageca.php)
May 15, 2008
Washington, D.C., May 15, 2008) Humanists across the nation expressed jubilation in the wake of today’s California high court decision in favor of same-sex marriage. “Despite resistance, times are clearly changing,” declared American Humanist Association (AHA) executive director Roy Speckhardt. “Basic equality cannot be forever denied, [...]
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Arthur Jackson, the president of the Humanist Community in Silicon Valley explores the relationship between science and religion, how that has changed over time, and where he thinks this connection needs to go in order to maintain and develop the human species.
For a copy of his talk, see rejoining-religion-and-sciencec.pdf
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Our President Arthur Jackson claims that most people of the world would answer the title question with their own question, “Why would you want to?” He further asserts that the beliefs underlying their question have trapped us in a blind alley where we see impossible problems in every direction we look rather than magnificent possibilities. [...]
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Sunsara Taylor is a writer for Revolution newspaper, a co-host on the WBAI (Pacifica) radio program “Equal Time for Freethought,” and sits on the Advisory Board of World Can’t Wait - Drive Out the Bush Regime! She has appeared frequently on/in the New York Times, “The O’Reilly Factor,” CNN’s “Showbiz Tonight,” “Hannity & Colmes,” “Fox [...]
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There is something deeply amiss when we send soldiers on a mission to engender peaceful coexistence between Sunni and Shiite Muslims, yet our military doesn’t seem able to offer religious tolerance to its own.
See article by by Robyn Blumner published in the Salt Lake Tribune and Common Dreams.
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