Archive for March, 2008
It’s Time to Recall the Sub-prime Loans
March 27th, 2008It’s Time to Recall the Sub-prime LoansBy Virginia Pratt
March 13, 2008
Recent reports on the rate of foreclosure are staggering. With the numbers rising so quickly, one has to ask why. Certainly the problem appears to be systemic. It may help to think about how the mortgage industry and process for getting a mortgage has changed [...]
A Feminist Christmas Story
March 22nd, 2008Singing: Silent Night, Holy Night, All is come, All is Bright, Round Young Virgin, Mother and child, holy infant so tender and mild…
Wait a minute. Please raise your hand if you have given birth or been present at a birth. Please keep your hand raised if you would have described that birth as silent or [...]
Jason Lydon’s Bio
March 22nd, 2008Jason Lydon is our Congregational Director. Currently he is enrolled at the Episcopal Divinity School. His primary focuses – among many – are on abolition theology, anti-racism, and queer liberation. Jason was raised in the Unitarian Universalist faith community, involved on local, district, and national levels. When not busy working at [...]
Power, Privilege, and the Effects of Assimilation
March 22nd, 2008Power, Privilege, and the Effects of Assimilation
Firstly, this talk is going to present far more questions and reflections than any real answers. This is an opportunity for each of us to make decisions for ourselves and to challenge ourselves to engage our communities on questions of power, privilege and assimilation. But, really, what is with [...]
Claim No Easy Victories
March 19th, 2008‘Claim no easy victories’: New Orleans and the Gulf Coast
Reconstruction Movement at a critical crossroads. (Part II: The
Struggle Ahead)By Kali Akuno
The "Days of December" mounted by the Coalition to Stop the Demolitions
and the broad forces of the Reconstruction Movement merely attained a
temporary victory in halting this neo-liberal assault. The bourgeoisie,
although temporarily stunned by the resistance, [...]
