A Girl’s Right to Power

April 25, 2010

Girls around the world face a systematic denial of their right to education. In addition to the loss of opportunity for each individual child, denying education to girls corresponds to lower family incomes, higher maternal and child mortality

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The Expression of One’s Values

April 21, 2010

So what are the values that make a difference in your life, in your community? What are the roots of tradition that you embrace with gusto and integrate in your every day existence? There is incredible value in being of service to others.

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Service is Sacred

April 18, 2010

Service for me is HEALING. Each and every human has the capacity to change the world. Faith without proper action is ineffective. Service is that action. Its the action that takes you out of your narrow existence and opens your heart. It raises your spirit.It makes you wiser. It grants you grace.

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Health and Wholeness is everyone’s divine birthright.

April 11, 2010

My grandma is one of the 609,034Chicagoans who live in what’s known as a food desert, a concentrated area short on access to fresh meat and produce, but over flowing with the packaged and fried food and a large number of convenience stores and fast-food outlets. The majority of people who live in these deserts-whether urban or rural are poor.

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Wide AND Deep

April 6, 2010

Educating girls is vitally important to the future success of this country. I would hope that she would leverage the money — double down and go hog wild for all the girls of Malawi. Education should not be a lottery and the lucky 450 out of millions get a chance. I would challenge Madonna to increase the scale and scope to serve more girls ina real cost efficient manner.

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Education reform has a face- its male and brown.

April 3, 2010

A child does not just one day out of the blue drop out of school. This kid has been sending signs for years that he was on this track– he has been vulnerable for a while.

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The rest of their lives

March 31, 2010

Children can and do commit terrible crimes. I am not saying they do not. And let me be clear, they should be held accountable for their crimes. Did you hear me?? They should be punished for their crimes and atone to society and their communities for some incredibly poor choices and bad behavior– but they also deserve a second chance.

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Tikkun olam

March 26, 2010

I am a connector. I help connect people, ideas, and organizations. I am a builder of community and the foundation of my building is based on the rock of social justice. Today I wanted to share my thoughts on social justice and some of my personal beliefs- and in turn, hope you will share your thoughts with me.

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Fields, Factories, Homes, and Brothels

March 20, 2010

An estimated 27 million people are enslaved. TODAY. There are more than 27 million slaves in the world today. That is more than at the height of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.

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Guest Post: Writing A New Story for Women by Ronna Detrick

March 16, 2010

The issue of social justice for women makes my heart start racing. I want to stand up and scream for things to change. They have to, right? Women continue to know levels of hardship and harm that defy my comprehension: objectification, inequity, discrimination, domestic violence, sexual trafficking. How can such continue, be propagated, and even allowed without a collective battle-stance against such realities?

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