The current social movement that exploded onto the national scene with the 2011 Occupy Movement is following the path of successful movements so far. The social movement in 2014 is poised to begin an exciting era of broadening and deepening the growing consensus for social and economic justice.
As I confirmed during my December visit, there is evidence of backlash against North Carolina oligarchist "Puppet Master" Art Pope's way-far-right agenda.by NoahThere are two Popes in the news lately. Both represent organizations that claim to speak for Jesus Christ. One's name is Pope Francis, leader of the Roman Catholic Church. Pope Francis is the better-known of the two, and his actions befuddle and anger U.S. Republicans. The other's name is Art Pope.
URGENT APPEAL: Ref: UA 22 / 13.
http://www.palestinematters.com/Appeal-to-Pope-Francis-to-help-Gaza_Appeal_1117.aspx
Gazan families are suffering. Israel and Egypt have cut off fuel supplies so that Gazans have had no electricity and vital services for 2 months. Families, in freezing temperatures have no light, no heat and hospitals are overflowing while sewerage is flooding the streets and people have to be ferried by boats and canoes.
Open Christmas letter to Pope Francis on Gaza
by Vacy Vlazna
Your Holiness
In desperation, in December a campaign was launched appealing to you to help release the suffering people of Gaza from the genocidal strangulation of the Israeli seven year blockade.
Pope sends GOP's fanatic, hate-filled cardinal, Ray Burke, a messageIf you're not from La Crosse or St. Louis, it's possible you first heard about the curia's most anti-Jesus cardinal, right-wing hack Ray Burke, here at DWT.
Boehner must feel like the little Dutch boy with his fingers in the dike, holding back the flood-- in this case, the flood of popular comprehensive immigration reform, the flood of popular passage of a bill to end workplace discrimination against the LGBT community, the flood against
After the humiliation of the last papal visit. Will the Pope insist on seeing Gaza this time? Or should he, too, boycott Israel until Jerusalem and the Christian and Muslim communities are freed from occupation?
by Stuart Littlewood Intifada Palestine
by KenThe working theory tonight is that a picture is worth, well, a whole lotta words, and above you have a picture, not just of how washingtonpost.com's opinion e-updates usually look when they arrive in my e-mailbox, with this weird line breakage that pushes authors' names up into cahoots with the (actual) previous author's column blurb, but an actual reproduction of the way this morning's opinion roundup looked, making it appear to the uncareful glancer as if Washington Post editor
I wasn't raised with any religion. In my own life, I've embraced the teachings of several gurus, Jeus more than any of the others. But organized religion has always repulsed me. Since I started watching Pope Francis I've actually considered joining the Catholic Church. I wonder if Catholics from the Church-without-Jesus sect like Paul Ryan and John Boehner have been thinking about leaving the Catholic Church and joining some snake handler cult.
