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Secrecy is about power, not protection
Have you ever been a part of a group in which secrets were being shared? Where were you in relation to those secrets? Were you the person sharing the secrets? The person learning the secrets? Or were you out of the secrets loop? Perhaps you were the subject of the secrets. Regardless, where you are… Read more
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How Late Term Abortion Saved My Life
This is a very important and divisive issue. It is crucial that we hear stories of all involved. Unfortunately it seems that those who have abortions remain silent about their experiences and motivations. This is a very deliberate process of stigmatizing and shaming women into not sharing their experiences and thereby limiting the discourse. Read… Read more
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Environmental Apostasy: Agitate April 2009
I’ve lived in South Florida for twenty five years. After a quarter century of living in the sunniest part of the Sunshine State I can say that I have never never become acclimated to the oppressive heat of this climate. There was a time when I would simply endure the summers and live for the winters,… Read more
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Health Care Stories: Why we need radical health care reform!
Read these health care stories. If you don’t believe there’s a health care crisis in this country after you read these you have no heart. What gets me is the number of people who have commented who have insurance. We are so concerned about the uninsured, but even those who have insurance still can’t afford… Read more
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The Myth of Choice in American Health Care
The free market yahoos keep at it. They insist on maintaining the status quo of American health care by scaring us with horror stories about how a government run health care system would deprive citizens of making market choices in their best interests. This plays into the American Cultural Legacy of individualism. It is also… Read more
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