Bruce "Utah" Phillips is a touring folk singer, but he's also much more than that. He's an American troubadour who carries stories of the labor movement, train hopping, the war in Korea and just about everything else he's picked up along the way. At 68, Phillips has a huge body of music and storytelling under his belt in addition to an impressive history of activism.
If you're looking for a chance to get away from campus for a day, have a picnic out in the open air and experience some good writing and art to boot, the sixth annual Poets & Writers' Picnic has just what you're looking for. "Where else can you get blacksmithing, sheep dog herding and other rural high jinx, plus music, art and good spoken word, all in the same festival?" said Dale Harris, founder of the Picnic and co-editor of the local monthly poetry magazine, Central Avenue in an e-mail interview.
It's true: one person really can change the world. This is the story of how one person started the 1989 revolution in Romania.
Ground zero, Dec. 28. As I approached from the subway stop a few blocks away, the crowd thickened. So did the vendors.
The first Zionists were Jewish socialists. They were not concerned with reclaiming "the Holy Land." They didn't even consider Palestine to be the only possible location for a Jewish state. Their goal was to create a safe haven, a place where the Jews of the world would no longer have to fear violence and oppression.
I do a lot of talking about the connections between religion and progressive activism, but perhaps it is better to see those connections in action.
Emma Goldman once said, “There are today large numbers of men and women to whom marriage is naught but a farce, but who submit to it for the sake of public opinion.”
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