Activist or Egotist? Choosing Darfur over Dorchester
September 12th, 2011
by Richard D. Bailey I parked cars in the middle of Yale University when I was in graduate school. I was going to Fairfield University some 30 miles away. But I lived in New Haven and had worked in the Mayor’s office after college so I was friendly with and knew a lot of political […]
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Tags: activists, Apartheid, Darfur, demonstrations, Dorchester, radicals, Yale
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Sailing for Peace
July 6th, 2011
By Jan Barry Beyond the July 4th fireworks celebrating historic battles against the British empire, American history includes many other memorable moments when courageous acts of conscience stirred the nation to steer a peaceful tack against the winds of war. One of those moments was in the spring of 1958 when a retired Navy captain, […]
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Tags: activists, anti-nuclear, Bigelow, Golden Rule, peace, Veterans for Peace
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