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Mary Dyer, Martyr for Religious Freedom
On June 1, 1660, Boston’s Puritan patriarchs, minds snapped shut like oyster shells, executed Mary Dyer. They had come to the New World in search of the freedom to impose their own intolerant...
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Swimming Together
By now we’ve all seen the video — a white cop goes Rambo on black teens at a pool party, curses them, wrestles one girl to the ground, draws his gun and waves it at the unarmed kids. IT’S NOT ABOUT ONE...
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Ireland’s “Pill Train” X2
In 1971, no one could have imagined that Ireland would have a pro-contraceptive female president (Mary Robinson) by 1990, or that she would be succeeded by another female president in 1997 (Mary...
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Mother Jones Makes a Hot July Hotter
Mary Harris Jones lost everything. Everything! When the Civil War ended, she was eager to raise her family in peace, but just two years later her husband and all four children died of yellow fever in...
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Hiroshima’s Children Remember Sadako
On the clear, sunny morning of August 6, 1945, a United States airplane, the Enola Gay, suddenly appeared in the sky over Japan and dropped a bomb on the city of Hiroshima. Children on their way to...
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Women in Pretoria Shout “You Have Struck a Rock!”
In Pretoria, on August 9, 1956, 20,000 women stood for a full thirty minutes in silence. It is said that even the babies on their mothers’ backs did not cry. Called by the Federation of South African...
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LEGACY OF LITTLE ROCK
Painting by Charly Palmer September 4, 1957 was supposed to be the first day of school for nine black students with good grades and superb coping skills, selected to help Arkansas comply with the 1954...
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Women and Kids Form a “Living Petition” for Free Speech
1917 poster of Ralph Chaplin behind bars After Woodrow Wilson signed the Espionage Act in June 1917, it became illegal for U.S. citizens to express “disloyalty” when the nation was at war. WITCH-HUNT...
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LIFE AMONG THE TREE-CREATURES: From Personal to Political
I have a lifelong soul-deep connection with trees. It began in rural America where I grew up, and deepened in New York City, my chosen home. COUNTRY TREES The green paradise behind my childhood house...
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Remembering Taylor
I’ve been absent from this blog for nearly a year, during which I underwent some surgery and then moved out of the 3rd-floor walk-up where I’d lived for 37 years to a garden apartment in another part...
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