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Archbishop of Canterbury’s World AIDS Day Message 2009 “A space for hope”

HT The EGR Conspiracy

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This Fourth [of] July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.

The following is a quote  from a speech by Abolitionist Frederick Douglas. It would not surprise me if this is the first time your read something like this. This is one of the many examples of how dissident views of the history and cultural “meaning makings” have been suppressed by the USA institutional educational and religious [...]

Video in honor to Archbishop Oscar Romero

This is a video of the song El Padre Antonio y su Monaguillo Andres by Ruben Blades, in honor of Archbishop Romero. This video include actual video and the voice of Archbishop Romero

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Remembering Monseñor Óscar Arnulfo Romero

“Brothers, you came from our own people. You are killing your own brothers. Any human order to kill must be subordinate to the law of God, which says, ‘Thou shalt not kill’. No soldier is obliged to obey an order contrary to the law of God. No one has to obey an immoral law. It [...]

Making the world again

“Brothers and Sisters:
Humanity lives in the breast every one of us, and, like the heart, prefers the left side. We need to find her; we need to find ourselves.
There is no need to conquer the world. It is enough that we make it again. We. Today.”
- Zapatistas

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Remembering World Water Day, March 22 2009

International World Water Day is held annually on 22 March as a means of focusing attention on the importance of freshwater and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources. An international day to celebrate freshwater was recommended at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). The United Nations General Assembly responded [...]

Remembering Padre Camilo Torres

 

Father Camilo Torres Restrepo (born in Bogotá, Colombia on 3 February 1929 – died in Santander on 15 February 1966) was a Colombian Roman Catholic priest, a predecessor of theLiberation Theology and a member of the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla group. During his life, he tried to reconcile revolutionary Marxism with Catholicism, or vice-versa.
Torres was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1954, but continued to study for some years at the Pontifical Catholic University of Leuven (Louvain) in Belgium. When he returned to Colombia, he [...]

Keep on Fighting, keep on Loving

Via Cut and Paint

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With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope [...]

Todos somos Gaza

A message from the Zapatistas in Chiapas, read by Subcomandate Marcos. Sound in Spanish. Text in English below.

Two days ago, the same day we discussed violence, the ineffable Condoleezza Rice, a US official, declared that what was happening in Gaza was the Palestinians’ fault, due to their violent nature.
The underground rivers that crisscross the world [...]

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