Blog Action Day Poems 2015

October 16, 2015

Railing against the imbalance

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/10/railing-against-imbalance.html

Senator Bernice Sanders

https://berniesanders.com/

https://twitter.com/SenSanders

https://www.facebook.com/berniesanders

http://www.sanders.senate.gov/

Senator Elizabeth Warren

https://www.facebook.com/ElizabethWarren

http://www.warren.senate.gov/

http://elizabethwarren.com/

https://twitter.com/SenWarren

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October 16, 2015

Is this mike on

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/10/is-this-mike-on.html

anyone trying to stand for fight injustice

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October 16, 2015

demanding the vote

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/10/demanding-vote.html

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Susan B. Anthony

and other suffragettes

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October 16, 2015

Asking for our forgiveness

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/10/asking-for-our-forgiveness.html

Luke 23:34

“Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.”

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October 16, 2015

more precious than gold

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/10/more-precious-than-gold.html

John 13:34-35

Love as Jesus loved us.

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October 16, 2015

cries of the natives

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/10/cries-of-natives.html

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/10/cries-of-natives_16.html

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/10/cries-of-natives_94.html

fight of Penobscot Nation

https://www.penobscotnation.org/

to have subsistence fishing rights

on Penobscot River

http://news.mpbn.net/post/court-hears-arguments-penobscot-nation-suit-over-river-jurisdiction

Crazy Horse

https://crazyhorsememorial.org/crazy-horse-the-man.html

Leonard Peltier

http://www.aimovement.org/peltier/

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October 16, 2015

Have You No Shame

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/10/have-you-no-shame.html

exchange of Joseph Welsh and Senator Joseph McCarthy

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/welch-mccarthy.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_N._Welch

“You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency,

sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?”

June 9, 1954

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October 16, 2015

Bringing Down an Empire

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/10/bringing-down-empire.html

Mahatma Gandhi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi

leading India to freedom via non-violence

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October 16, 2015

so we would never forget

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/10/so-we-would-never-forget.html

Elie Wiesel

http://www.eliewieselfoundation.org/eliewiesel.aspx

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007176

https://www.facebook.com/eliewieselfdn

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Elie-Wiesel/108197219208037

and Holocaust

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edited October 15, 2015

An Innocent Man – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/10/an-innocent-man-v2.html

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/10/an-innocent-man-v2_15.html

the work of Helen Prejean

http://www.sisterhelen.org/

https://www.facebook.com/SisterHelenPrejean

https://twitter.com/helenprejean

and all those others fighting against

capital punishment

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October 16, 2015

beating the drum

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/10/beating-drum.html

Thomas Paine

http://www.ushistory.org/paine/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Paine

http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/thomas-paine

http://www.biography.com/people/thomas-paine-9431951

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October 16, 2015

EXPOSING OUR HYPOCRISY

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/10/exposing-our-hypocrisy.html

about Edward Snowden

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden

on leaking government documents

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edited October 15, 2015

changing the wind – v5

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/10/changing-wind-v5_15.html

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/10/changing-wind-v5.html

(editing version 2)

edited January 23, 2015

Changing the Wind – v4

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/01/changing-wind-v4.html

(editing original again)

edited January 19, 2015

Changing the Wind – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/01/changing-wind-v3.html

(merging edits to original and version 2)

Edited July 22, 2013

“changing the wind – v2”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/07/changing-wind-v2.html

December 7, 2007

“changing the wind”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2007/12/changing-wind.html

Based on the comments of Jim Wallis on

Speaking of Faith, November 29, 2007

http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/jimwallis/index.shtml

He was talking about whether to change politicians

or change the wind, to change the public opinion

which guides politics. He used the example

of President Johnson’s statement to the

Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. that it would

take 5 years for a voting rights bill but

it actually took 5 months to pass the Voting Rights Act,

after the March in Selma.

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October 16, 2015

moral fiber

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/10/moral-fiber.html

Sir Thomas More

defying Henry VIII

to stay true to his faith,

subject of the play and film,

“A Man for All Seasons”

quote from Thomas More,

http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/tmore.htm

from “A Man for All Season”,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Man_for_All_Seasons,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU-ZNDDbfYA

talking of why he puts his faith in the law and in God,

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/amanforallseasons/quotes.html#explanation4

see comment number 4.

“I would give the Devil the benefit of the Law” (for my own safety's sake)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUqytjlHNIM

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October 16, 2015

Defying the Pope

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/10/defying-pope.html

Galileo and Copernicus defying the Pope

saying sun was the center of the solar system,

not the earth

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October 16, 2015

speaking in a story

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/10/speaking-in-story.html

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1970/solzhenitsyn-bio.html

using the book, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Day_in_the_Life_of_Ivan_Denisovich

to expose the Soviet Gulag System

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October 16, 2015

David versus Goliath

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/10/david-versus-goliath.html

Blog Action Day 2015 – “Raise Your Voice”

October 16, 2015

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