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Can we Revive the Gathering Program?
Feb 25, 2010

I suppose the RFC is doing as well as, if not better, than one would expect in the midst of the Great Recession (funny the way there is such a resistance to using the “d” word!). Our tremendously loyal and committed supporters have come through repeatedly with thousands upon thousands of modest donations, mostly ranging between $25 and $100. But I’m primarily attuned to our beneficiaries’ needs, and so end up seeing the glass as a quarter empty instead of three-quarters full.

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Mumia: Fast Track to Execution?
Feb 18, 2010

Many of you may have seen the national press coverage of a recent Supreme Court decision in the case of Mumia abu-Jamal. As members of the RFC community you probably know I have been involved in the effort to save Mumia’s life since the mid 1990’s. I consider him the first political prisoner to face execution in the United States since my parents. I wrote about his case in my book, An Execution in the Family, starting on page 227.

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Dump the Lesser Evil? Part II
Feb 09, 2010

Part 2 (Cont'd from last week: www.rfc.org/blog/article/444)

As the sun rose on the morning of January 20th after Scott Brown’s victory it dawned on me that while, in the short term there can be very good reasons for voting for the Democrats (there certainly were good reasons to vote for Obama/Biden over McCain/Palin), by voting the lesser evil into office we make it more likely that the greater evil will soon return.

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Dump the Lesser Evil?

Feb 05, 2010

Part 1

Have you ever had an event trigger an understanding of something you thought you already knew, but apparently did not grasp fully? That’s the way I felt on January 20th, the morning after Scott Brown’s victory in the Massachusetts special senatorial election on January 19th. Then I had my face rubbed in it by the Supreme Court’s decision giving corporations even greater power over what is left of our feeble democratic process.

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