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Peace House OKC By Nathaniel Batchelder Printed in the Daily Oklahoman, Wednesday, February 8, 2006 In January three years ago, almost 2,000 Oklahoma City citizens participated in an interfaith Spiritual Walk for Peace, expressing hope in prayer that war in Iraq could be avoided. Many of us had supported the U.S. effort to capture Osama bin Laden in … Read more…
OPS News, September, 2005 I preface these remarks with the encouragement that elections and voting are the only viable means for changing the faces in government enacting policies affecting all of us. Beginning with President Ronald Reagan’s two terms, I have observed an America becoming more like El Salvador every day. During the 1980s, under … Read more…
Dear Friends, Using the email address below, you could write the FCC too. TO: FCC Managers & Directors, fccinfo@fcc.gov Dear Sirs and Madams: The call from Rev. Pat Robertson for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez struck me as profoundly obscene …. both because Robertson’s words defiled Christianity itself ….. but also because his … Read more…
Cesar Chavez was born March 31, 1927, in Yuma, Arizona. Grandson of a migrant farm worker from Mexico, he toiled in the fields of California himself for years until becoming an organizer and labor-rights advocate for migrant farm workers. Through the 1960s he organized fellow migrant workers. After just six months 300 members of the … Read more…