Posted on January 28th, 2010 by armineh
Howard Zinn, the Boston University historian and political activist who was an early opponent of US involvement in Vietnam and a leading faculty critic of BU president John Silber, died of a heart attack today in Santa Monica, Calif, where he was traveling, his family said. He was 87.
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Posted on January 28th, 2010 by armineh
Thank You, Howard Zinn, for being there during the civil rights movement, for teaching at Spelman, for walking the picket lines, and for inspiring such students as Alice Walker and Marian Wright Edelman.
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Posted on January 28th, 2010 by armineh
Howard Zinn, my hero, teacher, and friend died of a heart attack on Wednesday at the age of 87. With his death, we lose a man who did nothing less than rewrite the narrative of the United States. We lose a historian who also made history.
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Posted on January 26th, 2010 by armineh
To see a dramatic reading on “COURAGEOUS MARGARET SANGER” from Meg’s book “Courageous Women”, click here.
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Posted on January 26th, 2010 by armineh
Do atheists need humanist chaplains if they have a crisis? It seems the demand is growing for non-religious chaplaincy services, but whether we can afford them is another matter
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Posted on January 22nd, 2010 by armineh
I find the article by Jende Huang in the HNN (1/13/10) shocking, to put it mildly, for many reasons.
His claim that Afghanistan and Iraq were “liberated” goes to the heart of his delusion that he is standing up for “solidarity with the oppressed” and seeking “the spread of Enlightenment values.”
The U.S. invasion of Iraq, to [...]
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Posted on January 19th, 2010 by armineh
Combat rifle sights used by U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan carry references to Bible verses, stoking concerns about whether the inscriptions break a government rule that bars proselytizing by American troops.
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Posted on January 19th, 2010 by armineh
Jonathan Figdor, a Master of Divinity candidate from Harvard Divinity School, talks about his background and why he studied religion rather than more philosophy, what a Humanist Chaplain is and how valuable a Humanist Chaplain can be, and his vision for a Humanist community.
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Posted on January 12th, 2010 by armineh
James Workman, Yale graduate, speechwriter for Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt and Nelson Mandela, and the Palo Alto-born author of a new narrative nonfiction book, Heart of Dryness: How the Last Bushmen Can Help Us Endure the Coming Age of Permanent Drought, will tell the dramatic story of how he traveled to the ends of the [...]
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Posted on January 11th, 2010 by armineh
In the week that two Malawians go on trial for violating anti-gay laws, Daniel Howden finds that their experience is all too common in a continent of legalised homophobia
Erwin van der Borght, the director of Amnesty International’s Africa Programme, says that unlike in the debate over the death penalty, this is not a matter of [...]
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