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World AIDS Day 2011

Introducing World AIDS Day: Getting to Zero November 2011 by Ann Jones and George Kerr, Co-Moderators for Presbyterian AIDS Network (PAN)   December 1, 2011, World AIDS Day (WAD), is a day of awareness and action in the struggle to … Continue reading

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Keystone XL Pipeline Protest: Reports from the Front

On November 6, 2011, over twelve thousand protesters encircled the White House in Washington, D.C., to oppose the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, which proposes to extract oil from the tar sands of Alberta, Canada, and transport it to … Continue reading

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National Transgender Day of Remembrance

Good Christian Folks, Like Us November 18, 2011, by Patrick David Heery, an editorial They Have Names Shelley Hilliard was 19 years old when she was murdered on October 23, 2011 in Detroit, Michigan. Her mother had to identify what … Continue reading

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Pastor Pepper-Sprayed in Seattle

Rev. Rich Lang, a United Methodist campus minister at the University of Washington, was pepper-sprayed by police while participating in the Occupy Movement in Seattle. Below are his words in response. Immediately below are videos of the pepper-spraying and the … Continue reading

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