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“While our hand carries the good intent to what seems to be its consummation, the fruit of evil grows from the seeds of noble thought.” — Hans Morgenthau I had what I believed to be the worst job in the … Continue reading →

Dan Brown’s recent bestseller, The Da Vinci Code, propelled a controversial religious organization called Opus Dei into the public eye. One character in the novel, Silas, is an Opus Dei “monk” who wears a robe and kills people who appear … Continue reading →

Scott Edwards’ contribution to the Public i of August 2004 V4#6 on the relevance of the 2004 American presidential election for the humanitarian crises in postcolonial Sudan raises the need to, once again, expose the ahistorical assumptions underlying a persistent … Continue reading →

“It must be a very interesting time in the States at the moment,” remarked our server at dinner, “with November coming up.”My wife Catharine and I were enjoying a rare night out without children in her hometown of Wivenhoe, population … Continue reading →

    “Breaking Out of Activist Ghettos since 2001,” the RACE collective is sure to turn quite a few heads within activist communities across the world. RACE is “a collective of people of color with revolutionary anti-authoritarian politics. … Continue reading →

        in 2000, again in 2001 with Dennis Halliday, and also in 2003 with Voices in the Wilderness; she is one of the founders and coordinators of Voices in the Wilderness, a Chicago-based … Continue reading →

      for “humanitarian clowning.” This is an account of the trip. *(the title is a reference to the movie Swimming to Cambodia, made in 1987 by Spalding Gray, while he was working on the movie, … Continue reading →

The February issue of the Public i contained an error on page 5 in the sidebar article entitled “How the Prison-Industrial-Complex Threatens Democracy in America.”The statement containing the error reads, “1 in 32 americans and 1 in 3 blacks are … Continue reading →

I wish that Peter Rohloff (in the February edition of Public i) had chosen a different word, besides “boring,” to describe Dennis Kucinich. Peace is boring; war is exciting. Conservation is boring, flagrant disregard for our life support system is … Continue reading →

    of Republican state leaders in Carmi, IL, 15th district U.S. House Rep. Tim Johnson criticized his Democratic rivals for believing that the government best knows how to distribute the nation’s assets. Republicans, he argued, believe in … Continue reading →

In the above article, Mike Griffin tells of his disillusionment with the lack of support he feels that he got from both the AFL-CIO and his local’s own national union in the Staley lockout. This was perhaps the most important … Continue reading →

       more than locked-out and striking United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) members involved in the West Coast struggle that idled thousands of grocery workers. The grim reality is, however, that victory is unlikely … Continue reading →

      , the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) will lower environmental standards, force workers to compete across borders for the lowest wages, enable transnational corporations to slash health care benefits and eliminate generic … Continue reading →

I know a type of discrimination. I know how it feels to be unwanted in a space; to be perceived as not normal. I have felt stares of hate that have burned through my exterior as well as had my … Continue reading →

    The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, which exposed the psychologies that helped numerous Europeans believe that the accumulation of money (which Saint Paul had called the root of all evil) would lead to spiritual … Continue reading →

Our visits are my only quality-time. Fate demands your speedy growth. My dream is to see you turn 18-years old. Visits are what I long for. To reveal all that my soul has stored. My choices created a barrier between … Continue reading →

by Sr. Carol Gilbert, O.P. Alderson Federal Prison,WV As I wait for my medical clearance before I begin my “landscaping” job, I thought you might be interested in the costs of life here at Alderson: 1. Issued one pair of … Continue reading →

The real hell is in the cells, where we are alone with ourselves and our thoughts. . . I am told when to shit, to shower, to shave; I am fed slop not worthy of pigs; I am psychologically abused … Continue reading →

  one year ago, on a cold January Saturday morning, I sat down in front of my computer and tuned in the Pacifica newstream covering the Washington, D.C., anti-war protest. Rev. Al Sharpton had just taken the stage. Although … Continue reading →

I feel privileged to have read Claudia Lennhoff’s statement on the current projects undertaken by CCHCC. Similarly I feel privileged to have read Lennhoff’s written material and whatever else has been written about her from Internet searches. (By the way, … Continue reading →