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Palestine

We Ain’t Going Anywhere!

GUEST POST by ABBY FULLER Never underestimate the power of spending three days with 4,500 principled, smart, and tireless people trying to stop a genocide. I was privileged to be among this steadfast group when I attended the Second People’s Conference for Palestine in Detroit last month. The theme of the conference was “Gaza is our compass.” [...]

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The Olive Tree

GUEST POST by TOM SANTULLI The olive tree outside my door and I met in a nursery  eleven years ago.  She was seven inches tall, in a one-gallon pot. Since then, she’s outgrown pots, and lived in a garden plot for a few years. Now, four feet tall – a proud juvenile in her twenty-five-gallon pot, appreciated in that casual way into [...]

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The Sounds of Silence

GUEST POST by MARY DUNN   “… Silence like a cancer grows Hear my words that I might teach you Take my arms that I might reach you But my words like silent raindrops fell And echoed in the wells of silence….” The Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel These lyrics are known to many of us. A much-loved song that makes me [...]

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